The Big One (1997, documentary) - Moore book tour turns into hilarious capitalist critique

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+ Best Political Movie of the Year 

 

The star documentarian looks happy but foolish in a black suit with his trademark cap, holding a giant microphone on this good-time-promising poster for Michael Moore's The Big One

American documentarian and left-wing pundit Michael Moore has just released his book Downsize This and is heading out on a tour of 50 US cities to promote it, while he visits average Americans, who are being laid off from major corporations.

The Big One is written and directed by great Michigander filmmaker Michael Moore (Roger & Me (1989)).

It follows Moore at a still early stage in his career, when he is still finding and fine-tuning his performance persona style as the 'savvy average Joe', and here ventures fully into the presidential campaign - without having a favorite - and expresses anger and critique of the country's powerful and the corporate elite: He searches out CEOs, who had obviously yet to realize that Moore needs to be stopped, before he gets in the building!

Moore exposes repulsive, amoral behavior from these tycoons and also gets a lot of gold in his camera from normal people, while he also himself delivers many sharp lines. The Big One may be his funniest film.

 

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Michael Moore: Sicko (2007) - Moore beats the US health care insurance system to a bloody pulp

1997 in films and TV-series - according to Film Excess 

Watch a trailer for the film here

 

Cost: Unknown

Box office: 720k $ (North America only)

= Uncertain but likely a big hit (projected return of 3.60 times its cost)

[The Big One premiered 6 September (Toronto International Film Festival) and runs 91 minutes. Shooting took place in Pennsylvania, Iowa, Minnesota, Illinois, including Chicago, Ohio, Michigan, Florida, Wisconsin, New York, Oregon and Missouri. The film opened #19 to a 146k $ first weekend in 33 theaters in North America, where it grossed 720k $. Its only other recorded general release market was France, but the gross from there is unlisted. The budget is unknown but was likely kept small due to Moore's ingenious shooting it mostly during an already planned (and presumable paid for) promotional book tour. Set at a tentative 200k $, the film's theatrical status would be that of a big hit. Roger Ebert gave the film a 3/4 star review, equal in rating to this one. Moore returned with 7 TV documentaries and music videos prior to his theatrical return with Bowling for Columbine (2002, documentary). The Big One is fresh at 92 % with a 7.50/10 critical average at Rotten Tomatoes.]

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Breakdown (1997) - Mostow arrives with action-packed, flawed thriller

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A blue-faced Kurt Russell seems to be caught in a scarlet dilemma on this poster for Jonathan Mostow's Breakdown

On their way through Arizona's raw desert, an attractive couple's Jeep breaks down, and the wife catches a ride to the next café, while her husband waits and lets the engine cool down. But when he is able to get to the café shortly after, his wife has disappeared...!

 

Breakdown is written by Sam Montgomery (Sawbones (1995, TV movie)) and co-writer/director Jonathan Mostow (Beverly Hills Bodysnatchers (1989)).

It starts well as a typical 'country-folk-are-cruel-and-hostile' thriller with a well-playing Kurt Russell (Captain Ron (1992)), who gives good fullness to his character. The film develops increasingly action-packed with some good cardboard-type villains, and despite Russell pouring plenty of emotions into his performance, it is correct what one critic noted: The third act especially needs that Russell's character gets mad and shows that he is capable in terms of violence, - because Breakdown wants plenty of action. (Speaking of the action, there is a scene in which Russell hangs under a truck, in which it is obvious that it isn't driving fast, when he drops an object down onto the road.)

But Mostow can stage suspense and action, which some other scenes in Breakdown demonstrate, but on the whole this is a lightweight and thin-legged time-killer.

 

Watch a short TV spot for the film here

Cost: 36 mil. $

Box office: 50.1 mil. $ (North America only)

= Uncertain, but probably a flop (projected return of 2.22 times its cost)

[Breakdown premiered 24 April (Los Angeles) and runs 93 minutes. Russell was paid 15 mil. $ for his performance. Shooting took place from April - June 1996 in Nevada, Utah, Arizona and California. The film opened #1 to a 12.3 mil. $ first weekend in North America, where it remained in the top 5 for another 3 weekends (#3-#3-#5), grossing 50.1 mil. $. The international gross figures are regrettably not reported online. Figuring on an 80 mil. $ world gross total, the film would rank as a flop. Roger Ebert gave the film a 3/4 star review, translating to 2 notches over this one. Mostow returned with Directors on Directors (1997, TV documentary series), From the Earth to the Moon (1998, miniseries) and theatrically with U-571 (2000). Russell returned in Soldier (1998). Breakdown is certified fresh at 82 % with a 7.20/10 critical average at Rotten Tomatoes.]

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

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 + Worst Poser of the Year

 

What looks like a seat belt (!) is wrapped around Clint Eastwood's giant head on this questionable poster for his own Absolute Power

An aging, sophisticated master jewel thief is in the middle of robbing a political bigwig's home, when he accidentally witnesses the US president's causing the death of a younger woman and later receiving help from his team in covering up the tragedy.

 

Absolute Power is written by William Goldman (All the President's Men (1976)), adapting the same-titled 1996 novel by David Baldacci (One Good Deed (2019)), and directed by director/co-producer/star, Californian master filmmaker Clint Eastwood (Play Misty for Me (1971)), whose 19th feature it is.

This crime thriller ranks among the weakest in Eastwood's prolific career. SPOILER The first several minutes pass with him standing in a closet, while Gene Hackman (Banning (1967)) as the president strikes and halfway rapes an innocent woman and then has her murdered. The violent scene combined with the 'impotent' hero (because he just watches the ordeal from the closet) is just not a nice opener.

Absolute Power does nothing to make the president character real to us, and he in fact seems like a pseudo-character in the dark universe that is conjured up. There is an impressive cast, but Absolute Power works at the lowest possible flame, (the kind of film you can watch very late at night with half an eye.) It is simplified and stupid to put it bluntly. The only cast member who esteems himself here is E.G. Marshall (Interiors (1978)), whose last movie this was, SPOILER as the president's likely murderer in the film's ending.

 

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American Sniper (2014) - Eastwood conveys an American man and myth in electric masterpiece  
2011 in films and TV-series - according to Film Excess [UPDATED II]
2011 in films - according to Film Excess   
J. Edgar (2011) - Eastwood, Black and DiCaprio's great, intense biopic   

2008 in films and TV-series - according to Film Excess [UPDATED II]
Gran Torino (2008) - Eastwood's actor persona comes full circle in absolute smash (co-producer/director/starring actor)
The Changeling (2008) or, The Christine Collins Story  

2006 in films and TV-series - according to Film Excess [UPDATED II] 
2006 in films and TV-series - according to Film Excess [UPDATED I]    
2006 in films and TV-series - according to Film Excess
Letters from Iwo Jima/硫黄島からの手紙 [Öjima Kara no Tegami] (2006) - The Japanese side of Eastwood's remarkable WWII two-parter   
Flags of Our Fathers (2006) - Eastwood's Iwo Jima portrayal is captivating and profoundly moving 

Blood Work (2002) - Eastwood churns out uninspired thriller adaptation (producer/director/starring actor)

1997 in films and TV-series - according to Film Excess 

The Dead Pool (1988) - The highly entertaining last Dirty Harry movie (starring actor)
City Heat (1984) - Eastwood and Reynolds wrestle dispassionately in Benjamin's messy period affair (co-starring actor)
Tightrope (1984) - An undervalued Clint Eastwood sex killer thriller (starring actor)
Any Which Way You Can (1980) or, More Monkey Business! (starring actor)
Escape from Alcatraz (1979) - Siegel, Tuggle and Eastwood's phenomenal prison escape thriller (starring actor)
Every Which Way but Loose (1978) or, Honky Tonk Monkey Business! (starring actor)

The Gauntlet (1977) - Locke/Eastwood cast sparks in corny shoot-em-up (director/starring actor)
The Enforcer (1976) - Eastwood teaches revolutionaries a lesson in third, less punchy Dirty Harry (starring actor)
The Eiger Sanction (1975) - Eastwood's mountain climbing dud (director/star)

High Plains Drifter (1973) - Eastwood cleans up red town in great western (director/star)
The Beguiled (1971) - Intense, erotic Civil War kammerspiel thriller (starring actor)  
Dirty Harry (1971) - Eastwood's great, signature renegade cop character comes to life (starring actor)
Coogan's Bluff (1968) or, Dopes and Hippies, Beat It! (starring actor)  
The Good, the Bad and the Ugly (1966) - Leone ends his poncho trilogy with certified classic (starring actor)
For a Few Dollars More/Per Qualche Dollaro in Più (1965) or, Return of the Poncho Killer (co-starring actor)
A Fistful of Dollars (1964) or, Killer in a Poncho (starring actor)

 

Eastwood talks about the film for 11 minutes in this video

 

Cost: 50 mil. $

Box office: 50 mil. $ - North America only

= Uncertain but likely a big flop (projected return of 1.4 times its cost)

[Absolute Power premiered 4 February (Westwood, Hollywood) and runs 121 minutes. Baldacci reportedly sold the worldwide book and movie right for his novel for 5 mil. $. Ed Harris (Milk Money (1994)) was paid 2.5 mil. $ for his performance. Shooting took place from June - August 1996 in Los Angeles, California, Washington, D.C, and in Maryland, including in Baltimore. It opened #2, behind a 1997 'special edition' re-release of Star Wars (1977), to a 14.6 mil. $ first weekend in North America, where it spent another 2 weekends in the top 5 (#3-#5-4X-#3-#4), grossing 50 mil. $. Without the international gross numbers a theatrical status regrettably cannot be determined. A projected much-smaller-than-needed international gross, leading to a final gross of 70 mil. $ would earn Absolute Power the rank of 'big flop'. Roger Ebert gave it a 3.5/4 star review, translating to 3 notches over this one. Eastwood returned with Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil (1997), and as an actor in True Crime (1999). Harris returned in The Truman Show (1998); Hackman in Twilight (1998). Absolute Power is rotten at 56 % with a 5.70/10 critical average at Rotten Tomatoes.]

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Austin Powers: International Man of Mystery (1997) - Spoofing funny, baby, yeah!

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+ Best New Franchise of the Year + Best Poster of the Year + Best Spoof Movie of the Year

A barrage of fun quotes from the film in psychedelic 1960s styled lettering and the inimitable Mike Myers fill out this hilarious poster for Jay Roach's Austin Powers: International Man of Mystery

England's #1 spy is cryogenically frozen at the peak of 1960s 'swinging London' period, as his arch nemesis Dr. Evil does the same. 30 years later he is unfrozen, as his unique talents are needed again: Evil has reawoken with a new terrible scheme!

 

Austin Powers: International Man of Mystery is written by writer/co-producer/star Mike Myers (The Love Guru (2008)) and directed by great New Mexican filmmaker Jay Roach (Zoo Radio (1990)).

It is a wildly cheerful, coarse comedy that's a grand spoof of the Bond movies and the 1960s in the West. It opens with an irresistible dance sequence, and is followed by wacky scenes in London of the past, leading into a veritable sea of vulgarities, word puns and physical gags. Will Ferrell (Zoolander (2001)), Tom Arnold (Hard Breakers (2010)) and Christian Slater (True Romance (1993)) are fun in cameos, and Robert Wagner (The Hunters (1958)) as No. 2 is really funny!

Myers has created his best and most resilient character yet here in Powers, which pulls the leg hilariously on the sexualized, male-centric, reality-detached 007 fantasy universe of the past. One might suspect that some of the film's non-stop gags are there mainly to boost the playing time, because some of them truly are detours. - But since they are mostly so funny, it doesn't really matter.

 

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2000 in films and TV-series - according to Film Excess 

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1997 in films and TV-series - according to Film Excess 

 

 

Watch a very short trailer for the film here

 

Cost: 16.5 mil. $

Box office: 67.7 mil. $

= Big hit (returned 4.10 times its cost)

[Austin Powers: International Man of Mystery premiered 29 April (Los Angeles) and runs 91 minutes. Powers was an early 1990s SNL character that Myers created with inspiration from his father. Myers was paid 3 mil. $ for the movie. Shooting took place from August - October 1996 in Nevada, including Las Vegas, and in California, including in Los Angeles. Many of the scenes reportedly contain improvisation. The film opened #2, behind fellow new release Breakdown, to a 9.5 mil. $ first weekend in North America, where it spent another 4 weekends in the top 5 (#4-#4-#4-X-X-#5), grossing 53.8 mil. $ (79.5 % of the total gross). The film did not have a big reception in the UK, which is attributed to Princess Diana's tragic death shortly prior to its release there. Roger Ebert gave it a 3/4 star review, equal in rating to this one. Daniel Craig said in 2014 that the Bond movies had to change to a more serious tone following Austin Powers, which made the gags the franchise had previously done "impossible" due to its satirizing them. The film spun two sequels, the first being Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me (1999). Roach returned with said film. Myers first returned in 54 (1998). Austin Powers: International Man of Mystery is fresh at 74 % with a 6.50/10 critical average at Rotten Tomatoes.]

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Anaconda (1997) - Limited fun in slick jungle escapade

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A giant anaconda lurks in the dark on this effective poster for Luis Llosa's Anaconda

A documentary film crew on the Amazon river quickly meet resistance, which gets them to turn around. - With a monster anaconda on their trail!

 

Anaconda is written by Hans Bauer (Komodo (1999)), Jim Cash and Jack Epps Jr. (Top Gun (1986), both) and directed by Luis Llosa (Crime Zone (1988)).

It is a very silly and flat studio invention, - almost more package than film. The different actors are more so in the picture to activate certain demographics than for any other reasons, pick up a paycheck and maybe have a laugh or two. None of them get to show what they can in this stupid story: Ice Cube's (Three Kings (1999)) character is laughable; Jonathan Hyde (The Tailor of Panama (2001)) as the sneering Brit, who doesn't seem to serve any function on the trip, is also ungainly.

The giant snake is very well-made, and that is what gives Anaconda its bite of entertainment value. SPOILER Also this is the place to go, if you were wondering where to see Jon Voight (Rosewood (1997)) gobbled up and then thrown up by a giant snake!

 

Watch a very short trailer for the film here

 

Cost: 45 mil. $

Box office: 136.8 mil. $

= Box office success (returned 3.04 times its cost)

[Anaconda was released 11 April (USA) and runs 89 minutes. Jennifer Lopez (My Family (1995)) was paid 1 mil. $ for her performance. Shooting took place from May - August 1996 in Brazil, Las Vegas, Nevada and in California, including in Los Angeles. The film opened #1 to a 16.6 mil. $ first weekend in North America, where it spent another weekend at #1 and then another weekend in the top 5 (#3), grossing 65.8 mil. $ (48.1 % of the total gross). Roger Ebert gave it a 3.5/4 star review, translating to 3 notches over this one. 3 sequels and a 2015 crossover movie (with Lake Placid (1999)), all without the involvement of any of the filmmakers and stars of the first film, have been made. Llosa returned with La Fiesta del Chivo (2005). Lopez returned in U Turn (1997); Cube in two music videos prior to his theatrical return in The Players Club (1998); and Voight also in U Turn (1997). Anaconda is rotten at 38 % with a 4.90/10 critical average at Rotten Tomatoes.]

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Anastasia (1997) - Splendor!

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+ Best Musical of the Year

 

What could be thought of as a malevolent god above looms on this grand poster for Don Bluth and Gary Goldman's Anastasia

Anastasia is only a very young princess in the Russian royal family, when the revolution splits said family apart. As an adult she goes to Paris, where she learns of her true ancestry.

 

Anastasia is written by Susan Gauthier (The Carol Burnett Show (1991, TV-series)), Bruce Graham (Twisted (1986)), Bob Tzudiker, Noni White (The Lion King (1994), both) and Eric Tuchman (Eureka (2010-12)) and directed by Texan master filmmaker Don Bluth (The Secret of NIMH (1981)), whose 8th film it was, and Gary Goldman (All Dogs Go to Heaven (1989)).

The real-life story is taken up and spun around into a fantastical, original story, - really a fantasy about learning something truly fantastical (such as that you're really a Russian princess), and that very wild hopes can come true, - which moves several times in this great first Fox Animation feature, a film you'll have to made of stone not to be touched by.

The plot also has weak sides, - mostly in relation to the villain scenes, - and the mix of traditional cel animation and computer animation is sometimes very clear, (take it as a part of the technical development process of the time.) But Anastasia also has ravishing songs and enormously beautiful drawings and colors and is a an over-all lavish production, and a gift for every romantic out there.

 

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1997 in films and TV-series - according to Film Excess

 

Watch a trailer for the film here

 

Cost: 53 mil. $

Box office: 139.8 mil. $

= Box office success (returned 2.63 times its cost)

[Anastasia premiered 14 November (New York) and runs 94 minutes. The film is Fox Animation's first feature and highly historically inaccurate. Production took place in Phoenix, Arizona. It opened #2, behind Mortal Kombat: Annihilation, to a 14.1 mil. $ first weekend in North America, where it spent another 2 weekends in the top 5 (#3-#4), grossing 58.4 mil. $ ( 41.8 % of the total gross). Reportedly more than 50 mil. $ was spent marketing the film in partnerships with commercial partners. Disney attempted to drown out Anastasia at the box office with several releases and re-releases of popular titles. More than 8 mil. home video copies of the film were sold in North America. The film was nominated for 2 Oscars: Best Song (Journey to the Past by Stephen Flaherty and Lynn Ahrens), lost to My Heart Will Go On by Celine Dion, James Horner and Will Jennings from Titanic, and Best Score: Musical/Comedy (Stephen Flaherty, Lynn Ahrens, David Newman), lost to Anne Dudley for The Full Monty. It was also nominated for 2 Golden Globes, among other honors. Roger Ebert gave it a 3.5/4 star review, equal in rating to this one. Bluth and Goldman returned with Anastasia spin-off, Bartok the Magnificent (1999, video) and theatrically with Titan A.E. (2000). Meg Ryan (Sleepless in Seattle (1993)) returned in City of Angels (1998); John Cusack (City Hall (1996)) in Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil (1997); and Christopher Lloyd (Cadillac Ranch (1996)) in The Animated Adventures of Tom Sawyer (1998, video), The Ransom of Red Chief (1998, TV movie) and theatrically in My Favorite Martian (1999). Anastasia is certified fresh at 86 % with a 7.10/10 critical average at Rotten Tomatoes.]

 

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Speak No Evil (2022) - Take a beating with Tadrup's awesome horror

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A boy with a wide open mouth, encased in darkness, makes up this striking poster for Christian Tafdrup's Speak No Evil

A big-city couple from Denmark receive an invitation by snail-mail from a couple from Holland that they met on holiday months earlier and decide to take them up on their offer and drive South with their daughter for a long weekend at their house.

 

Speak No Evil is written by Mads Tafdrup (Yes No Maybe (2019, TV-series)) and his brother, co-writer/director, great Danish filmmaker Christian Tafdrup (Parents/Forældre (2016)).

Tafdrup moves ahead in the same waters as his first films, Parents and En Frygtelig Kvinde (2017), with another film about gender power dynamics today and a young modern couple with relationship dysfunction, a male that seems castrated into modern submission and a female who on some level longs for a different type of man. This time the familiar dilemmas are put up against a Dutch couple who are the Danish couple's opposites; very old-fashioned, unrestricted by inhibitions and very politically incorrect.

This is quite funny for a long time, as issues around diet, child-raising, smoking, drinking and more are effectively skirted by the conflict-averse Danes, as their unwillingness to look straight at the human behavior of their hosts and draw some sensible consequences from them push them from one awkward situation to another, - and eventually all the way into the shark's mouth. Great cinematography (by Erik Molberg Hansen (Becoming Astrid/Unga Astrid (2018))) and a bombastically foreboding score (by Sune Kølster (Parents))) leave us with no doubt as to the sudden turn into horror that is bound to occur in Speak No Evil. SPOILER There are creepy, earlier scenes of near-invasion, feeling of immediate danger and threat of violence, and then the horrific scene with the child that is invoked on the poster above, which all help set the unnerving tone. 

The upbeat good time I had with the film lasted long, anyway, due to the fact that the dark social satire lasts long, and you have ample room to slap your forehead at the dispositions of the dysfunctional Danes here, SPOILER as they fail to heed the warnings and thus doom themselves - with some justification?

The performances from the unknown quartet of adults are very good: Morten Burian (Sons of Denmark/Danmarks Sønner (2019)) and Sidsel Siem Koch (Hvidstengruppen II - De Efterladte (2022)) play the troubled couple with exposed nerves, and Fedja van Huêt (Soof 2 (2016)) and Karina Smulders (Alle Tijd (2011)) are strong and eventually chilling as the disturbing Dutchmen.

Speak No Evil turns very dark and very gruesome in its conclusion, which mixes Old-Testamental religious symbolism into a truly wicked, horrific ending that only sets this serving of blackness further apart. Speak No Evil speaks loudly enough.

 

Watch a trailer for the film here

Cost: 3.2 mil. $

Box office: 1.7 mil. $

= Huge flop (returned 0.53 times its cost)

[Speak No Evil premiered 21 January (Sundance Film Festival) and runs 105 minutes. Shooting took place in Denmark, Holland and Italy. The film has sold 68k tickets in Denmark to date, coming to around 7.5 mil. DKK, approximately 1.08 mil. $ (63.5 % of the total gross). The film's 2nd and 3rd biggest markets were Poland with 246k $ (14.5 %) and Netherlands with 195k $ (11.5 %). Tafdrup does not have his next gig announced yet. Burian returns in Loving Adults (2022); Koch returned in Hvidstengruppen II - De Efterladte (2022). Speak No Evil is fresh at 79 % with a 7.10/10 critical average at Rotten Tomatoes.]

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How to Get Ahead in Advertising (1989) - Robinson harpoons advertising world with pointed satire

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A giant screen crushes through the earth on this mysterious poster for Bruce Robinson's How to Get Ahead in Advertising

A successful advertising man in London is pressured by deadlines and develops a zit on his throat, which talks, and which grows bigger and stronger ...

How to Get Ahead in Advertising is written and directed by Bruce Robinson (Withnail & I (1987)).

For a British film, Robinson's are uncharacteristically outspoken and frank, and this one is a gem in the absurd-comedy genre with high energy, many good ideas, - the story's premise in itself is a minor stroke of genius, - and good acting: Rachel Ward (Double Jeopardy (1992, TV movie)) is lovely as the wife; both Richard Wilson (Women Talking Dirty (2001)) as the boss, and John Shrapnel (Alien Autopsy (2006)) as the psychiatrist are excellent, and Richard E. Grant (Tooth (2004)) is impressively credible as the mentally unwrapping protagonist.

Towards the end, the film seems to give up on its plot and develop in an almost entirely polemic direction, as the contrast between the now materialistically rejecting ad man and the excited consumerist personality grown from his neck gets the main stage, which is a shame. But How to Get Ahead in Advertising is still a very funny and original film.

 

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The Rum Diary (2011) or, The Puerto Rican Adventure of Mr. Kemp 

 

Watch a trailer for the film here

 

Cost: Unknown

Box office: 670k $ - North America and the UK only

= Uncertain

[How to Get Ahead in Advertising premiered 30 March (New York) and runs 94 minutes. Shooting took place around June 1988 in England, including in London. The film grossed 418k $ in North America, and 201k £ in the UK, coming to around 252k $, and around 670k $ combined. It was also released in West Germany and Japan. The film's theatrical status is impossible to ascertain without knowing more, especially its budget. Robinson returned with Jennifer 8 (1992). Grant returned in Warlock (1989); Ward in Shadow of the Cobra (1989, miniseries) and theatrically in After Dark, My Sweet (1990). How to Get Ahead in Advertising is fresh at 60 % with a 6.30/10 critical average at Rotten Tomatoes.]

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