Mickey Blue Eyes has been out a few years now, and it is still as good now as the first time I saw it. Hugh Grant (Four Weddings & a Funeral, Nine Months) plays Michael Felgate, a struggling art-dealer opposite Jeanne Tripplehorn (The Firm) playing Gina Vitale, a schoolteacher. James Caan (Godfather, El Dorado, now NBC’s Las Vegas on monday nights) plays Tripplehorn’s father, Frank, who runs a restaurant called “The La Trattoria”, or The The Trattoria. Grant proposes to Tripplehorn, who declines because of her father, that she didnt want Grant to become one of them. She runs off, and he can’t find her, so he goes to her father’s restaurant and meets “the family”.
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Archive for June, 2004
This has been out for a little while now (at least a year, since that’s how long I’ve had it), but at Krog’s urging, I will conjure up a few reviews on some not-so-recent releases.
For any die-hard Monty Python fans, this 14-DVD collection is for you. Originally listed around $150, it can be found at Costco and similar stores now for around $90. Each disc contains between 3 and 4 episodes.
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