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I Don’t Know; It’s a Mystery

Alan Rapp / February 8, 2011 / Home Video, Theme Week

Title: Shakespeare in Love
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John Madden gives us a new film version of Shakespeare by looking at the struggling playwright who has yet to become the great William Shakespeare. The movie is centered around the love story between Will and Viola which will be his muse for writing “Romeo and Ethel the Pirate’s Daughter” er… I mean “Romeo and Juliet.”

Will Shakespeare (Joseph Fiennes) is a struggling playwright banished by his wife and child to London and tired of the constant attention and devotion garnered by renowned playwright Christopher Marlowe (Rupert Everett) which provides one of the films best running jokes. With a little help from Marlowe and a the sight of his new muse the lady Viola De Lesseps (Gwyneth Paltrow who won the Oscar for Best Actress) Will begins to write what will become his great love story “Romeo and Juliet.”

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Dysfunction Junction

Title: Running with Scissors
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It’s not Little Miss Sunshine, (read that review here), it doesn’t have its heart, but Running with Scissors does present wildly entertaining moments about a collection of some of the most screwed-up people you’re likely to view together in a film. It’s a journey of one sane individual who finds himself trapped in an increasingly insane world.

Augusten Burroughs (Joseph Cross) is surrounded by insanity. His father (Alec Baldwin) lives at the bottom of a bottle distraught over his wife’s insanity, and his mother (Annete Bening) believes herself to be America’s next great poet – except she can’t seem to get published by even the smallest journals.

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