Isn't She Great (2000) - Bergman's career-ending writer biopic

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Lush pink and the adored stars are the selling points on this bright poster for Andrew Bergman's Isn't She Great

Jacqueline Susann has a humble dream of becoming rich and famous, and when she meets the agent Irving Mansfield they prove a magical match, since he believes just as much in her, - or more, in fact!, - than she does herself.

 

Isn't She Great is written by Paul Rudnick (Sister Act (1992)), based on the 1995 New Yorker profile Wasn't She Great of super-selling author Jacqueline Susann by Michael Korda (Another Life (1999)), and directed by Andrew Bergman (So Fine (1981)).

Bette Midler (Divine Madness (1980)) and Nathan Lane (Modern Family (2010-19)) are top stars and both quite funny here, - especially Lane, - although the story comes off as a bit implausible, including that Midler's sexually oriented Jacqueline here should marry the not exactly arousing Lane...

Another thing to wonder about in Isn't She Great is the couple's economy together, which seems enormous right from the get-go: In New York, no less, although both of them are rarely working and professionally failed at the outset. Isn't She Great is a film for fans of its two stars most of all.

 

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Watch a trailer for the film here

 

Cost: 36-44 mil. $ (different accounts)

Box office: 3 mil. $

= Box office disaster (returned 0.07 times its cost)

[Isn't She Great was released 28 January (USA) and runs 95 minutes. Shooting took place from January - April 1999 in Quebec and New York. The film opened #17 to a 1.3 mil. $ first weekend in 750 theaters in North America, its peak there, where it grossed 2.9 mil. $ (96.7 % of the total gross). It was released in 6 other markets but has only registered an unspecified 40k $ foreign gross at Box Office Mojo. Roger Ebert gave it a 1/4 star review, translating to a notch under this one. Bergman was never hired as director again but did return with a couple of more credits as a writer. Midler returned with a cameo in What Women Want (2000), in Bette (2000-01) and in an actual role in The Stepford Wives (2004); Lane in Love's Labour's Lost (2000). Isn't She Great is rotten at 24 % with a 4.10/10 critical average at Rotten Tomatoes.]

 

What do you think of Isn't She Great? 

Pollock (2000) - Harris prevails with artist portrait of highest integrity

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A particularly deep-felt bit of critical praise fills up almost half of this poster for Ed Harris' Pollock

The film follows American painter Jackson Pollock as a young artist from New York around the onset of the 2nd World War, his meeting Lee Krasner, their later marriage and his art and downfall.

 

Pollock is written by Barbara Turner and Susan Emshwiller (Ugandan Pollock (2016), both), adapting Jackson Pollock: An American Saga (1989) by Steven Naifeh and Gregory White Smith (Gene Davis (1982), both), and directed by great New-Jerseyite filmmaker, debuting Ed Harris (Westworld (2016-22)), who also stars in the title lead.

Harris emulates Pollock impressively; his intensity, impulsivity, gloom and creativity. And Marcia Gay Harden (Pink Skies Ahead (2020)) is just as resplendent as Krasner. The two have vibrantly strong scenes in Pollock, a completely ravishing portrait of one of the most exciting artist's of the 20th century.

Jeffrey Tambor (Trolls (2016)) and Amy Madigan (Stuck (2017)) are good in supporting roles. The film has a fine score (by Jeff Beal (The Grab (2022))) and a shocking - but authentic - ending.  It is an impressive reconstruction of an artist and his art-making. 

 

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Appaloosa (2008) - Best traditional American western in 16 years (co-writer/co-producer/director/co-star) 

Cleaner (2008, video) or, Suit-Wearing Papa Cleaner-Man! (co-star) 

Gone Baby Gone (2007) - Difficult decisions await in Affleck's Lehane adaptation crime drama debut (co-star)

A History of Violence (2005) - Cronenberg's powerful rumination of our violence (co-star)  

National Treasure (2004) - Stars shine in Turteltaub's preposterous adventure baloney (actor) 

The Human Stain (2003) - Stellar cast drives Benton's Roth adaptation (actor)

The Hours (2002) - Everything gels in Daldry's phenomenal adaptation (actor) 

Absolute Power (1997) - Eastwood stumbles with low-caliber thriller (co-star)

The Firm (1993) - Pollack and Cruise scored big with 1993's lesser Grisham adaptation (actor)

Glengarry Glen Ross (1992) - US theater's second-greatest salesman play fueled by magnetic performers (co-star)

Watch a trailer for the film here

 

Cost: 6 mil. $

Box office: 10.9 mil. $

= Big flop (returned 1.81 times its cost)

[Pollock premiered 6 September (Venice Film Festival) and runs 122 minutes. Harris had been working on the idea of making the film since his father had given him the Pollock book due to the fact that he found his soon to strongly resemble the painter. Harden was paid 1 mil. $ for her performance. Shooting took place from April - August 1999 in New York, with a 6-week hiatus in the middle for Harris to gain 30 pounds and grow a beard. The film opened #37 to a 44k $ first weekend in 2 theaters in North America, where it peaked at #17 and in 280 theaters (different weeks), grossing 8.5 mil. $ (78 % of the total gross). The film was nominated or 2 Oscars, winning for Best Supporting Actress (Harden) and losing Best Actor (Harris) to Russell Crow in Gladiator. It was also nominated for an Independent Spirit award, among other honors. Roger Ebert gave it a 4/4 star review, translating to a notch under this one. Harris returned with Appaloosa (2008); and as an actor he returned in Enemy at the Gates (2001); Harden in Thin Air (2000, TV movie) and From Where I Sit (2000, TV movie) prior to her theatrical return in Gaudi Afternoon (2001). Pollock is certified fresh at 80 % with a 6.90/10 critical average at Rotten Tomatoes.]

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O Brother, Where Art Thou? (2000) - Much to love in fabulous Coen music yarn

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Three convicts flee a chain gang with part of the chain still attached on this neat poster for Ethan and Joel Coen's O Brother, Where Art Thou?

Three escaped convicts in Mississippi in 1937 venture out on an adventure after a buried treasure, which will soon get flooded, and they record a country single on their way.

 

O Brother, Where Art Thou? is written and directed by Minnesotan master filmmakers, brothers Ethan and Joel Coen (Blood Simple (1984)). Ethan Coen also produced the film. It is a very loose adaptation of Homer's epic poem the Odyssey (8th/7th century BC).

It is an enthusiastic yarn full of fun, speed, visual panache (cinematography by Roger Deakins (Shadey (1985))), a delicious color scheme, - and energetic actors: Tim Blake Nelson (Dallas & Robo (2018, TV-series)) especially as the simple-minded Delmar, and George Clooney (Red Surf (1989)) as vain idiot Ulysses McGill are terrific.

Clan members and politics get mixed into the bargain, and towards the end things get a bit thick and contrived. But O Brother, Where Art Thou? is still a good and fun film that could only have come from the inimitable Coen brothers.

 

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A Serious Man (2009) - One of the Coens' best; a philo-religious serio-comedy
Burn After Reading (2008) or, Idiocy 2008

No Country for Old Men (2007) - Undigestible McCarthy adaptation lets you hang in midair 
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The Big Lebowski (1998) - The stoner comedy to reign over all

1996 in films and TV-series - according to Film Excess 

Top 10: Best crime movies reviewed by Film Excess to date 

Fargo (1996) - The Coen brothers make movie magic with dark-humored crime thriller 

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Barton Fink (1991) or, The Writer's Hell

 

 

Watch a trailer for the film here

 

Cost: 26 mil. $

Box office: 71.8 mil. $

= Box office success (returned 2.76 times its cost)

[O Brother, Where Art Thou? premiered 13 May (Cannes Film Festival, main competition) and runs 107 minutes. Neither of the Coens have ever read the Odyssey. The title of the film is a reference to Preston Sturges' Sullivan's Travels (1941). Clooney was paid 1 mil. $ for his performance in the film. Shooting took place from June - August 1999 in Mississippi and California, including in Los Angeles. The film opened #27 to a 195k $ first weekend in 5 theaters in North America, where it peaked at #9 and in 847 theaters (different weeks), grossing 45.5 mil. $ (63.4 % of the total gross). The film was nominated for 2 Oscars: Best Adapted Screenplay, lost to Stephen Gaghan for Traffic, and Cinematography, lost to Peter Pau for Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon. It was also nominated for 4 BAFTAs, a European Film award, won 1/2 Golden Globe nominations and 2 Grammys, among other honors. Roger Ebert gave the film a 2.5/4 star review, translating to a notch under this one. The Coen brothers returned with The Man Who Wasn't There (2001). Clooney returned in The Perfect Storm (2000); John Turturro (Somewhere Tonight (2011)) in Two Thousand and None (2000); Nelson in The Good Girl (2002); and John Goodman (In the Electric Mist (2009)) in The Adventures of Rocky & Bullwinkle (2000). O Brother, Where Art Thou? is certified fresh at 79 % with a 7.20/10 critical average at Rotten Tomatoes.]

What do you think of O Brother, Where Art Thou??

Nurse Betty (2000) - Zellweger's star rises in so-so crime comedy

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Bright colors and big stars attract on this poster for Neil LaBute's Nurse Betty

Betty is a waitress and is married to a rotten used car salesman. When she witnesses his violent murder, the shock messes with her brain, making her believe that she is having a relationship with her soap opera idol!

 

Nurse Betty is written by John C. Richards (Sahara (2005)) and James Flamberg (Midnight Heat (1983, composer)) and directed by Neil LaBute (In the Company of Men (1997)).

Betty travels to California with the two killers at her heels in this off-center story, which holds a warm and lovably performance by Renée Zellweger (8 Seconds (1994)) as well as fun supporting performances from Aaron Eckhart (Double Jeopardy (1992, TV movie)), Pruitt Taylor Vince (True Blood (2013, TV-series)) and Crispin Glover (My Tutor (1983)). Greg Kinnear (Feast of Love (2007)) is especially good in his soap opera scenes. Morgan Freeman (RED (2010)) is also good, but his scenes nevertheless become annoying, since it is hard to comprehend why his character puts up with Chris Rock's (The Longest Yard (2005)) character's filthy and insulting mouth. (SPOILER It turns out in the end that he is his father.)

Nurse Betty is a bit overlong, SPOILER and I also had a hard time buying that Kinnear's character even manages to get his psycho-fan Betty cast as an actress in his soap. Something is lacking for this Coen brothers reminiscent amusement to fully score, but its playtime with reality, dreams and soap reality is fine.

 

Watch a trailer for the movie here

 

Cost: 35 mil. $

Box office: 29.3 mil. $

= Huge flop (returned 0.83 times its cost)

[Nurse Betty premiered 11 May (Cannes Film Festival, in the main competition) and runs 105 minutes. Shooting took place from December 1998 - March 1999 in Rome, Italy, Arizona, Colorado and California, including in Los Angeles. The film opened #2, behind fellow new release The Watcher, to a 7.1 mil. $ first weekend in North America, where it spent one more weekend in the top 5 (#4), grossing 25.1 mil. $ (85.7 % of the total gross). The film later made more than 33 mil. $ on the US rental video market. It won the Best Screenplay award at Cannes, a Golden Globe and a National Board of Review award, among other honors. Roger Ebert gave the film a 3/4 star review, translating to a notch over this one. LaBute returned with 4 short and TV credits prior to his theatrical return with Possession (2002). Zellweger returned in Me, Myself & Irene (2000); Freeman with narration in American Masters (TV documentary) and theatrically in Along Came a Spider (2001); Rock in DAG (2000, TV-series), Disappearing Acts (2000, TV movie) and theatrically in Down to Earth (2001); Kinnear in Loser (2000). Nurse Betty is certified fresh at 83 % with a 7.20/10 critical average at Rotten Tomatoes.]

What do you think of Nurse Betty?

High Fidelity (2000) or, Record Store Romance

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Different hairstyles on an vinyl record cover adorn this poster for Stephen Frears' High Fidelity

Record store owner Robert is left by his blond girlfriend Laura, and in the process of reassessing his own break-up story realizes that he has to win her back.

 

High Fidelity is written by D.V. DeVincentis, Steve Pink (Grosse Point Blank (1997), both), Scott Rosenberg (Happy Town (2010, TV-series)) and co-writer/star John Cusack (War, Inc. (2008)), adapting the same-titled 1995 novel by Nick Hornby (Slam (2007)), and directed by English master filmmaker Stephen Frears (Gumshoe (1971)), whose 12th feature it is.

The story is related mainly through Cusack's Robert's narration directly to the camera, and Cusack and Frears get this to work at times. But the technique is overused and also get annoying at other times. 

A side note: If you are not convinced that the 1990s was the ugliest decade fashion-wise in modern history, I'll recommend you to look at the dubious robes in High Fidelity. 

The film seems to come to its conclusion, - but then it actually has a good 10 minutes more of babble in store for us. What makes High Fidelity worthwhile nonetheless are the good performances from Cusack and Iben Hjejle (Klovn (2005-09)) as Laura, along with Jack Black (Jesus' Son (1999)), who is allowed to give a lovely musical number in the end, and Joan Cusack (Freaks of Nature (2015)). The latter two are both funny here.

 

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Philomena (2013) - Dench astounds in Frears' powerful true-story drama

Mrs Henderson Presents (2005) or, Wartime Swinging London 

Dirty Pretty Things (2002) - Good performances anchor Frears' flawed, overrated illegal immigrant drama

 

Watch a trailer for the film here

 

Cost: 30 mil. $

Box office: 47.1 mil. $

= Big flop (returned 1.57 times its cost)

[High Fidelity premiered 17 March (South by Southwest Film Festival) and runs 113 minutes. Black was paid 250k $ for his performance. Shooting took place from April - July 1999 in California, New York and in Chicago, Illinois. The film opened #5, behind holdover hit Erin Brockovich, fellow new releases The Road to El Dorado and The Skulls and holdover hit Romeo Must Die, to a 6.4 mil. $ first weekend in North America, where it left the top 5 in its 2nd weekend and grossed 27.2 mil. $ (57.7 % of the total gross). The film was nominated for a BAFTA, won an AFI award, and was nominated for a Golden Globe and a Grammy, among other honors. Roger Ebert gave it a 4/4 star review, translating to 3 notches over this one. A same-titled TV-series version was made with Zoe Kravitz in the gender-swapped lead and canceled after 1 season in 2020. Frears returned with Fail-Safe (2000, TV movie) and theatrically with Liam (2000). Cusack returned in America's Sweethearts (2001). High Fidelity is certified fresh at 91 % with a 7.60/10 critical average at Rotten Tomatoes.]

 

What do you think of High Fidelity? 

Hollow Man (2000) - Superb effects in Verhoeven's miss

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An eerie contour makes up this poster for Paul Verhoeven's Hollow Man

Dr. Sebastian Caine is a molecular biologist of an unusually self-assured breed (and an uncontrolled libido), who with a new piece of technology is now able to make himself invisible - and vent his rage!

 

Hollow Man is written by Andrew W. Marlone (End of Days (1999)), with Gary Scott Thompson (Man of War (2021)) contributing story elements, inspired by H.G. Wells' (When the Sleeper Wakes (1899)) 1897 novel The Invisible Man, and directed by Dutch master filmmaker Paul Verhoeven (Diary of a Hooker/Wat zien ik (1971)). It is his 13th feature.

The plot of the movie is incredibly simple, unrefined, predictable, and yet nonsensical. Because what exactly is it that makes Kevin Bacon's (Trapped (2002)) scientist protagonist a bloodthirsty monster, when he becomes invisible?

Elisabeth Shue (Deconstructing Harry (1997)) and Josh Brolin (No Country for Old Men (2007)) attempt their best but are essentially earth-bound in this sub-par Verhoeven effort. The special effects are most impressive, - the film, not so much.

 

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Watch a 2-minute clip from the film here

 

Cost: 95 mil. $

Box office: 190.2 mil. $

= Flop (returned 2.00 times its cost)

[Hollow Man premiered 2 August (Los Angeles) and runs 112 minutes. Reportedly 50 mil. $ of the budget was used on VFX. Shooting took place from April - June 1999 and from August 1999 - February 2000 in Washington D.C. and Los Angeles. The film opened #1 to a 26.4 mil. $ first weekend in North America, where it spent one more weekend at #1 and then left the top 5, grossing 73.2 mil. $ (38.5 % of the total gross). The film was nominated for the Best Effects Oscar, lost to Gladiator. Roger Ebert gave the film a 2/4 star review, equal in rating to this one. Verhoeven said in a 2013 interview that he was 'depressed' after the film's release; that he thought that '20 directors in Hollywood could have done that' and that 'it really is not me anymore'. Verhoeven returned with Le Court des Grands (2006, video documentary), Sarah Brightman: I Lost My Hear to a Starship Trooper (2006, music video) and theatrically with Black Book (2006). Bacon returned in Novocaine (2001); Shue in Amy & Isabelle (2001, TV movie) and theatrically in Tuck Everlasting (2002). Hollow Man is rotten at 26 % with a 4.30/10 critical average at Rotten Tomatoes.]

 

What do you think of Hollow Man? 

Nutty Professor II: The Klumps (2000) - Murphy brings down the house

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Star Eddie Murphy as five laugh-inducing Klump characters on the poster for Peter Segal's Nutty Professor II: The Klumps

Sherman has fallen in love with another professor, but he is still haunted by the uncouth, harassing voice of Buddy Love. To gain momentum in his endeavor to score, he invents an elixir for rejuvenation.

 

Nutty Professor II: The Klumps is written by Barry W. Blaustein (Coming 2 America (2021)), David Sheffield (Boomerang (1992)), and Paul and Chris Weitz (Antz (1998), both), with Steve Oederkerk (Smart Alex (1987)) contributing story elements, and directed by Peter Segal (Naked Gun 33 1/3: The Final Insult (1994)). It is the sequel to The Nutty Professor (1996), itself a remake of The Nutty Professor (1963) with Jerry Lewis.

There are many loosely connected and barely comprehensible plot elements here in this colorful sequel, but the main thing is that it results in many laughs and a once again very enjoyable time in the company of Eddie Murphy's (Metro (1997)) wacky-vulgar Klump family. His multiple performances here are incredible; Janet Jackson (Poetic Justice (1993)) is sweet; and the film is a genuine shot of low-brow great spirits.

The buffet scene is priceless. There seem to possibly be less (but still funny) fart jokes here than in the predecessor, as well as some good fantasy sequences. This is for the silly-minded comedy fans.

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Watch a trailer for the film here

 

Cost: 84 mil. $

Box office: 166.3 mil. $

= Big flop (returned 1.97 times its cost)

[Nutty Professor II: The Klumps premiered 24 July (USA) and runs 109 minutes. Murphy was paid 20 mil. $ + reportedly 20 % of the gross for his performance in the film; Jackson 5 mil. $. Murphy's deal may have made it the most profitable film for him in his career, possibly netting him more than 60 mil. $. Shooting took place from October 1999 - February 2000 in California, including Los Angeles. It opened #1 to a 42.5 mil. $ first weekend in North America, where it spent another 2 weekends in the top 5 (#2-#5), grossing 123.3 mil. $ (74.1 % of the total gross). Roger Ebert gave it a 3/4 star review, equal in rating to this one. Segal returned with Anger Management (2003). Murphy returned with a voice performance in Shrek (2000) and physically in Dr. Dolittle 2 (2001). Nutty Professor II: The Klumps is rotten at 26 % with a 4.50/10 critical average at Rotten Tomatoes.]

What do you think of Nutty Professor II: The Klumps?

Mission to Mars (2000) - De Palma's awful space turkey

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A beam of light strikes down in what looks to be the very orange planet of Mars on this poster for Brian De Palma's Mission to Mars

The first manned mission to Mars is launched, out searching for alien life.

 

Mission to Mars is written by Jim Thomas (Executive Decision (1996)), John Thomas (Predator (1987)) and Graham Yost (Justified (2010-15)), with Lowell Cannon contributing story elements, and directed by great New Jerseyite filmmaker Brian De Palma (Murder à la Mod (1968)).

Mostly good effects and typically ambitious De Palma-style camerawork cannot save this stinker, which grows completely intolerable after the first half hour or so: The script and dialog are the main crooks: SPOILER When sand monsters attack and kill one astronaut, the spaceship-bound colleagues are still giddily romantic, led on by the crew's women, who seem to mentally be around the age of fourteen.

This goes on with pointless, exhausting scientific mumbo-jumbo, and one soon has had enough of Tim Robbins (Arlington Road (1999)) and Gary Sinise (Open Season (2006)) also, while the film's scientific part also fails to convince, as for instance the US flag flaps in the Martian wind...

SPOILER Mission to Mars ends with typically designed aliens and a spaced-out ending. It is an awful film. Ennio Morricone's (Money (1991)) score remedies parts of it.

 

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Watch a trailer for the film here

 

Cost: 100 mil. $

Box office: 110.9 mil. $

= Big flop (returned 1.1 times its cost)

[Mission to Mars premiered 6 March (USA) and runs 114 minutes. De Palma boarded the already written and cast film at a late stage, when the originally hired director bowed out. Shooting took place from July - October 1999 in California, Vancouver, British Colombia and in Jordan. The film opened #1 to a 22.8 mil. $ first weekend in North America, where it stayed in the top 5 for another two weekends (#2-#4) and grossed 60.8 mil. $ (54.8 % of the total gross). Roger Ebert gave it a 2.5/4 star review, translating to two notches higher than this one. De Palma returned in Femme Fatale (2006). Sinise returned in Bruno (2000); Robbins in High Fidelity (2000). Mission to Mars is rotten at 24 % with a 4.20/10 critical average at Rotten Tomatoes.]

 

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