Articles by Laura Francis

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  Something's Gotta Give

  Nancy Meyers

  PUBLISHED Apr 1, 2004

  Do all men who eat well, love well and sex up the younger demographic have to suffer horribly for their crimes? Are heart attacks, deep reg...

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  The Singing Detective

  Keith Gordon

  PUBLISHED Mar 1, 2004

  When The Singing Detective appeared on British television in 1986, it was regarded by many as one of the best things on television ever. Fa...

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  Schindler's List

  Steven Spielberg

  PUBLISHED Mar 1, 2004

  Every DVD has a marketing dilemma: how to sell a film back to its audience. It is a job made harder still when the film in question has bee...

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  My Architect

  Nathaniel Kahn

  PUBLISHED Mar 1, 2004

  When Louis Kahn collapsed and died in the men's washroom of Penn Station, he left a trail of mystery in his wake. Deemed one of the greates...

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  Peter Pan

  P.J. Hogan

  PUBLISHED Dec 1, 2003

  On the eve of yet another Michael Jackson trial, is there no better time than now for a remake of the J.M. Barrie classic Peter Pan? Austra...

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  Open Range

  Kevin Costner

  PUBLISHED Dec 1, 2003

  Nothing saps a western more than a big theme. Eastwood did it successfully with Unforgiven and the genre has been happily left alone ever s...

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  Elf

  Jon Favreau

  PUBLISHED Nov 1, 2003

  Hey kids! Do you believe in Santa? When Buddy (Will Ferrell) is accidentally scooped into Santa's sack one Xmas eve, he has no other choice...

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  Down With Love

  Peyton Reed

  PUBLISHED Oct 1, 2003

  It's 1962 and Barbara Novak (Renee Zellweger), fresh off the bus from Maine, has just sold her first book, Down With Love, a proto-feminist...