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Written by James M. Tate / 2/15/2014 / No comments / action , alan ruck , bill paxton , cary elwes , ensemble , helen hunt , interview , jami gertz , michael crichton , nineties , philip seymour hoffman , scott thomson , steven spielberg , thriller

HELEN HUNT & BILL PAXTON & PHILIP SEYMOUR HOFFMAN IN TWISTER

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<i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white;">“It’s really hard to define yourself in this big movie competing with special effects,” actor Scott Thomson, who plays one of several storm chasers, said in a Cult Film Freak interview. “The star of the show is the TWISTER.”</span></i><br />
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And we can’t forget the flying cow that really made a lasting, iconic impression although there are many other great visuals: including an assortment of tornadoes that practically become living/breathing movie monsters...<br />
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The aesthetics aside, TWISTER is a character-driven film, literally. And while there are an assortment of storm riders aboard the dilapidated mobile caravan, the two leads are Bill Paxton’s Bill Harding and his soon-to-be-ex wife Jo, played by Helen Hunt.<br />
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The story begins with Bill seeking one last signature to finalize the divorce. Here we meet the intrepid team, highlighted by Philip Seymour Hoffman as Dusty, an energetic, classic rock blaring hippie slob, randomly goading the uptight Jami Getz as Bill's naïve, tagalong fiancé who is actually quite important: during most of the film, it's through her shocked eyes we experience what the others are completely used to....   <br />
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Especially Helen Hunt’s Jo, who, during the intense childhood prelude, loses her dad to a farmland tornado… Her story goes slightly beyond Bill’s determination to prove his contraption/invention <i>Dorothy</i> can, when whisked up into the sky, learn specific information so that, in the future, people will have more than a two-minute storm warning. In this story Jo has her own revenge angle... Tornado chasing is not only science, it's deeply personal! Then again Bill's idea had been ripped off by his corporate scheming rival (Cary Elwes), adding motivation and dimension to his character.  <br />
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A defining attribute of TWISTER is it's constantly on the go... At the same time, an impending sense of doom lurks throughout… Like when the people are on land in JAWS, we never forget where the real danger exists and what's always waiting for us. Thus this roving, suspenseful yarn – even during brief pockets of downtime – relies on the quirky crew stalking a formidable menace that normal folks hide from... And the audience rides shotgun the entire trip.  <br />
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Thankfully, executive producer Steve Spielberg wasn’t finished with author Michael Crichton after his sublime, successful adaptation of JURASSIC PARK… With TWISTER, SPEED driver Jan de Bont directed something special that, although maligned as corny and far fetched despite a huge box office draw, still holds up today: like an actual storm, the adventure begins with a breezy introduction, slowly escalates into a wind-swept cadence and eventually blasts off into several thrilling crescendos. <br />
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Sure, it's a bit much when the tornado becomes a determined, lone antagonist, chasing our two main characters like the end of a cliché horror flick, and the dialogue gets silly and downright contrived, but that's all part of the escapist fun that should keep you completely entertained from start to finish... if you let it! <br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #666666; color: white;">Character Actor SCOTT THOMSON discusses working on the hit film TWISTER</span></b></td></tr>
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<b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #666666; color: white;">This was a real ensemble... There were a whole lot of you on board...</span></b><br />
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Yeah, we’re kind of divided into two camps… Bill and Helen played the parents of all of us storm chasers… The other, Cary Elwes’ team, is the evil team with all the technology.<br />
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We’re the affectionate, scrappy, <i>we’ll do anything including risking your lives in the name of science</i> group, and the adrenaline rush of throwing yourself into a tornado… And yeah, that was a very tricky situation in which all of us on Helen’s team were kind of like, I don’t know... What’s that Greek mythology creature? The one body with the… oh, it’s the Hydra… We were kind of like a Hydra… We were all joined at the shoulders. <br />
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When I read the script, I thought, if I ever played Dusty, that’s the part to have because there’s something there to play… Philip Seymour Hoffman came in and did a bang-up job... We were kind of envying him because he had all the… You know, he had a lot of fun. <br />
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<b><span style="background-color: #666666; color: white;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #cccccc; color: #073763;">Your character is nicknamed The Preacher... What's the reason for that?</span> </span></b><br />
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It was never really defined, to my frustration… I tried talking to the director, Jan de Bont, a nice guy from Holland… His background is a cinematographer, basically, and he’d come out with SPEED and everyone had embraced him because that was an amazing action film, so he was recruited for TWISTER… <br />
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But he wasn’t really interested in getting into the minutia of our characters. I tried to get some time with him... I’d say: “I’m called The Preacher… So this is my take… I feel like I’m a preacher’s son who went over to the <i>dark side</i> of science and yet still had my roots in my Baptist Evangelist background.” But there was no time to explore that… And I tried, but, what are you gonna do?<br />
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I usually just tell people I was the guy in the cow suit. <br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: #cccccc;"><span style="color: white;"><b style="background-color: #666666;">"Philip Seymour Hoffman came in and did a bang-up job" Scott Thomson</b></span></span></td></tr>
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<span style="background-color: #cccccc;"><span style="color: white;"><i><b style="background-color: #666666;">And here's a bonus archived review, more of a write-up, actually, of a movie with the same title that probably has its own faithful following...</b></i></span></span><br />
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Let's just say that often, in the cinematic sense, weird has gotten a bad time. When weird is too weird, or weird for the sake of being weird, it's a complete waste of time.<br />
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But in the 1989 independent film, TWISTER, which has little to do with a tornado and nothing to do with the Helen Hunt movie about people chasing them (that came out several years later), gives weird a good name.<br />
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Centering on a dysfunctional, eccentric family in Cleveland living in a mansion: the father played by Harry Dean Stanton who owns a soda pop factory and his two kids: Crispin Glover, who sits around strumming his guitar and acting strange (like he does so well), and the self-involved daughter, Suzy Amis, who hates her life more than her boyfriend, Dylan McDermott, whose tough guy blue collar character gives the movie a firm "normal" base.<br />
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The title is liken to CHINATOWN, having little to do with the plot but everything to do with the unpredictable, spontaneously existential concept. So for fans of weird, this little gem is highly recommended. The dialogue is creative, perfectly suited for the quirky ensemble. And for fans of normal, perhaps it's a good change.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: #cccccc;"><span style="color: white;"><b style="background-color: #666666;">Back to the main TWISTER, here are the stars Helen Hunt and Bill Paxton for good measure...</b></span></span></td></tr>
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HELEN HUNT & BILL PAXTON & PHILIP SEYMOUR HOFFMAN IN TWISTER

year: 1996 rating: ***1/2 “It’s really hard to define yourself in this big movie competing with special effects,” actor Scott Thomson, w...

Written by James M. Tate / 10/05/2012 / No comments / barbara babcock , dana elcar , daphne zuniga , don murray , eighties , helen hunt , john stockwell , jonna lee , kathleen wilhoite , made-for-TV , tim robbins

'QUARTERBACK PRINCESS' W/ KATHLEEN WILHOITE INTERVIEW

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Helen Hunt plays Tami Maida, a nice girl that really wants to be a high school football quarterback… The only catch is that it’s a sport not fitting to girls – well that’s what the narrow minded locals in a new small town think...<br />
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With her very supportive parents behind her, Tami tries out and makes the cut. Becoming a media phenom, her life changes as she goes from second to first string, winning game after game. Yet she really wants a normal life that she gets from John Stockwell’s lumberjack hopeful Scott Massey.<br />
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The best scene in this made-for-TV film has Scott bringing Tami on a date he assumed she’d prefer – taking part in a makeshift exercise training camp through the forest. But Tami wants to be a regular girl when she's not on the field. The main problem with this PRINCESS, newly released on DVD, is that several scenes are cut – one minute she’s embracing her boyfriend at a bonfire, the next she’s limping and might not play the final game. What happened?<br />
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The story often plays out like a Hallmark Channel propaganda at times, with not enough obstacles for our heroine to overcome. But it's an intriguing portrait of an underdog athlete <i>and</i> it’s a true story to boot...<br />
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Other cast members include a young Tim Robbins as a fellow player; Daphne Zuniga as her jealous little sister; Don Murray and Barbara Babcock as the stalwart parents: the first overdoing the progressive, optimistic dad character; Dana Elcar as the town's chauvinistic naysayer; and Kathleen Wilhoite as Tami’s tomboy best friend.<br />
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<i><u>KATHLEEN WILHOITE</u>: Helen's performance was timeless. I'll never forget being blown away when her character won some award at the end and they shot her walking through the crowd up to her logger boyfriend, John Stockwell.</i><br />
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<i>My memory is a little fuzzy, but her performance was something I'll never forget... She walked through the crowd of people with real tears in her eyes, so moved, so focused on the moment...</i><br />
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<i>She was and is still a real inspiration to me. She told me on that film that it was super important that we stay in touch because many times, she said, you make friends on a movie and then you never hear from the person again. She gave me her number. I called her when I got back and we've been friends ever since. </i><br />
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'QUARTERBACK PRINCESS' W/ KATHLEEN WILHOITE INTERVIEW

year: 1983 cast: Helen Hunt, John Stockwell rating: ***1/2 Helen Hunt plays Tami Maida, a nice girl that really wants to be a high schoo...

Written by James M. Tate / 5/01/2012 / No comments / aileen quinn , cannon , children , comedy , eighties , fantasy , helen hunt , john paragon , musical

AILEEN QUINN & JOHN PARAGON STARRING IN 'THE FROG PRINCE'

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Like the iconic child actress Shirley Temple, ANNIE starlet Aileen Quinn grew into a lovely and talented teenager – and here’s proof... <br />
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In the Golan-Globus production of Grimm’s Fairy Tales THE FROG PRINCE, Quinn plays an insecure young princess who, without a real friend and at odds with her nefarious older cousin Henrietta (Helen Hunt), wanders the castle dreaming of one day becoming a queen.<br />
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While she’s outside brooding above a lonely pond, she drops her lucky golden magic ball into the water and out pops our titular Frog Prince...<br />
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Played by John Paragon (pictured below in one of the very few movies he appeared in, NORTH SHORE as a surf photographer) with the kind of delightful energy liken to Jim Carrey’s THE MASK years later. Frog and Zora make an unlikely pair, sneaking around the castle and in one funny scene, “Ribbit” pretends to be a toy to trick the King.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">John Paragon gives Laird Hamilton a dirty look in NORTH SHORE Google: John Paragon North Shore Frog Prince John Paragon</td></tr>
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The catchy songs occur sporadically, helping the story without being intrusive. Aileen Quinn, with a soothing voice that captures the joys and pains of childhood reveries, provides the same timeless dynamic that made ANNIE a sensation.<br />
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The musical numbers are produced with an old-school charm, delightful to both children and adults. And while it seem "dated" for today's standards, who needs computer animation when you have great costumes (The Frog especially), plush sets and a multitalented cast?<br />
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AILEEN QUINN & JOHN PARAGON STARRING IN 'THE FROG PRINCE'

year: 1986 cast: Aileen Quinn, John Paragon, Helen Hunt rating: ***1/2 Like the iconic child actress Shirley Temple, ANNIE starlet Aileen Q...

Written by James M. Tate / 9/19/2011 / No comments / biopic , dennis quaid , helen hunt , sport , tens

SOUL SURFER

<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhFukrLBCuBFMFovaGW-uVgLGTkIqNuiOJTcIrkgQ_vmCOyZePzKKEFgNcgixaYvHnmOagE5CHffHlCFGA1Uwlj7ylrr7ueP2jNT42NMvUHfuwXEuKDnvh31zhHwgcjvbRUANlrBRdYygVH/s1600/Soul-Surfer-500x500.jpg" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5654275818629312002" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhFukrLBCuBFMFovaGW-uVgLGTkIqNuiOJTcIrkgQ_vmCOyZePzKKEFgNcgixaYvHnmOagE5CHffHlCFGA1Uwlj7ylrr7ueP2jNT42NMvUHfuwXEuKDnvh31zhHwgcjvbRUANlrBRdYygVH/s200/Soul-Surfer-500x500.jpg" style="float:right; margin:0 0 10px 10px;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 149px; height: 200px;" /></a><span style="font-weight: bold;">title: </span>SOUL SURFER<br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">year:</span> 2011<br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">cast:</span> AnnaSophia Robb, Dennis Quaid, Helen Hunt, Loraine Nicholson<br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">rating:</span> **<br /><br />It<span style="font-style: italic;"> is</span> an amazing story… the real thing, not the one depicted in this movie. The acting makes BAYWATCH seem like THE GODFATHER, and there’s little story arc, which is important in a beat-the-odds sports movie: especially about a young female surfer who, after losing her arm to a shark’s bite, relearns how to surf and eventually takes part in a major competition. The lead-up to the shark attack is slow, the characters introduced like a TV sitcom… only without laugh tracks or anything to really smile about. Protagonist parents Helen Hunt and Dennis Quaid, both fine actors, seem to be going through the motions. And AnnaSophia Robb, as Bethany Hamilton, has but one expression throughout: even during, and right after, the attack, a pivotal scene that happens much too quickly. But the biggest sin is the lackluster montage during the training sequences as she learns to surf with one arm. There’s hardly any struggle, and before you know it she’s out on the waves like it’s nothing. Although there is a point of no return where Hamilton swears off surfing forever, leading to a “spiritual awakening” during a mission trip, sparking her interest again… These scenes have heart, as do actual footage of the real Bethany Hamilton during the end credits. And it’s nice seeing Christianity as something more than a character’s quirky psychosis, like depicted in most Hollywood films. It’s just too bad they had to rush through the important parts so quickly, leaving little residual <span style="font-style: italic;">soul</span> in the process.

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