Tagline: They missed each other. This time, their aim is better. HBO Films and Fine Line Features present the Sundance and Berlin Film Festival award winner, Maria Full of Grace. The film tells the story of one young woman’s journey from a small Colombian town to the streets of New York. A bright, spirited 17-year…
Mean Girls Production Notes (2004)
Surrounded by jocks, mathletes, flaky teachers and subcultures galore, Cady climbs up “and slides down” the harrowing social ladder of junior year, and life in the jungle turns out to be cake compared to high school! As exemplified in her wickedly funny and often acerbic writing style, “Saturday Night Live” head writer Tina Fey has…
Mean Girls (2004)
Tagline: Watch your back. Calling somebody else fat will not make you any thinner. Calling somebody stupid will not make you any smarter. And you’ve got to stop calling each other sluts and whores. It just makes it all right for guys to call you that. — Math teacher Ms. Norbury (Tina Fey) addressing a…
Meet the Fockers Production Notes (2004)
About the Film An old show business axiom dictates that comedy is truth-a glimmer of recognition, the acknowledgment of a familiar situation, as in “Hey, that happened to me,” quickly followed by the nearly instantaneous feeling of relief that this (most probably) painful situation is happening to someone else, onscreen. For instance: being introduced to…
Meet the Fockers (2004)
Tagline: And you thought your parents were embarrassing. Four years ago, audiences were invited to come along with male nurse Greg (a.k.a. Gaylord) Focker (Ben Stiller) on a weekend as he lost his luggage, set the backyard on fire, went a little over-the-top in a game of water volleyball, spray painted the cat and was…
Million Dollar Baby Production Notes (2004)
The Characters and the Story Adapted for the screen by Emmy-winning screenwriter Paul Haggis, Million Dollar Baby is based on a short story from the collection Rope Burns, by F.X. Toole. Toole spent years working as a “cut man” – the member of a boxer’s team whose job it is to patch up his injuries…