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Title:	Movie Reviews and Discussion
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Created:	Thu Jan 28 1993
Last Modified:	Thu Jun 05 1997
Last Successful Update:	Fri Jun 06 1997
Number of topics:	1249
Total number of notes:	16012

992.0. "The American President" by SNOFS1::GREENANA (Don't Panic!) Wed Dec 27 1995 18:32

    I took my wife to see this movie yesterday (my preference was
    Goldeneye... but she wanted something romantic).
    
    As an Aussie, the name of the film didn't apeal to me, making me think
    it was some kind of patriotic film, but I quite surprised!
    
    It was your typical boy gets girl, boy loses girl, boy gets girl back
    scenario but with a reasonable plot.
    
    Michael J Fox and Richard Dreyfuss (I wasn't sure if it was him but my
    wife assures me it was) play very minor supporting roles, but certainly
    add to the plot.
    
    For once, Michael Douglas doesn't do a nude seen with the lead female
    character, and I think that kind of added to the romantic theme of the
    film, rather than attempting to provide shock value.
    
    It's interesting to see the president portrayed in a loving and
    humerous manner making me wonder how factual it is compared to life in
    the White House.

T.R	Title	User	Personal Name	Date	Lines
992.1		BUSY::SLABOUNTY	Why don't you bend for gold?	`Wed Dec 27 1995 18:45`	3
	The lead female is played by Annette Bening.
992.2		KERNEL::PLANTC	To tell you the truth, Not so much!	`Tue Jan 02 1996 13:23`	8
	My partner and I went to see this one over the holiday and really enjoyed it. Its just romantic fluff..but we all need that once in a while. Chris :)
992.3	fun movie	STOWOA::JACOBSON_A		`Mon Jun 03 1996 15:43`	3
	We rented this movie over the weekend. It was wonderful. A nice light movie for the summer. Michael J Fox and Richard Dreyfuss were very good in supporting roles.
992.4	Kudos to Martin Sheen	ASDG::HORTON	paving the info highway	`Mon Jun 17 1996 18:59`	9
	.3 Fox and Dreyfuss did play very well. My favorite supporting actor was Martin Sheen as the president's chief of staff. I especially liked the scene with his "most popular history professor" line. -Jerry
992.5		WMOIS::LYONS_S		`Wed Jun 19 1996 16:58`	12
	I enjoyed this. I have to admit thought that I was glad I waited for the rental. It's a nice story, no violence (accept of course for the attack on Libya which we never see), some romance and just a nice clean, fun story. I have to agrre with -1 about Martin Sheen. I thought it was a nice role for him. I liked his comment "I can pass her a note in study hall". Didn't care for M. J. Fox however....typical role for him. He reminded me of his character Alex on Family Ties. All in all a very good rental.
992.6	Who would even watch such liberal propaganda?	ODIXIE::LOWER	What fools these mortals be!	`Thu Jun 20 1996 03:26`	5
	>Didn't care for M. J. Fox however....typical role for him. He reminded >me of his character Alex on Family Ties. Alex working for a DEMOCRAT??? That borders on blasphemy...
992.7	liked it a lot!	GRANPA::JBOBB	Janet Bobb dtn:339-5755	`Tue Sep 03 1996 18:20`	68
	Rented this over the weekend (went hog wild at the video store so there will be several entries in different movies from me... love long weekends!) Liked it. Very much. In fact, we watched it Sat. night and before I returned it on Sunday I watched most of it again. Was just going to replay the end speech but ended up stopping at many other places. Some very good lines - some already mentioned - Michael Douglas had some nice one-liners, delivered very well. Scene I remember is where Douglas is trying to convince Benning he's just an average normal guy asking her out for a date - when a heliocopter lands in the yard behind him (seen through the oval office window) and when she asks what's that? his response is 'just my ride". I thought Martin Sheen was a good chief-of-staff - liked the ongoing argument between him and the president of using the president's first name when they are by them selves off hours. Michael J. Fox character was Alex Keating in pretty much every sense - maybe Alex loosened up a bit when he went to college! Richard Dreyfuss was pretty much wasted in the part, not much screen time. But, as usual, made the most of it and was really slimy. Anyone know if they were able to film any of this in the white house? And - I wonder if anyone does dance at the formal state house dinners. good light fun. May not appropriate for young ages (see spoiler). janetb. spoiler after form feeds spoilers beyond If you have objections to kids seeing the "before" of 2 adults sleeping together, then beware. However, it was certainly a lot less then one sees on any daytime/nighttime soap and most other tv shows. So, don't know if it would bother anyone. 1 nit/inconsistency - when Sydney arrives at the white house to break it off, she's not wearing earrings, when she leaves the next morning, she is wearing them. I did wish the storyline had gone on for a few more days - I wanted to hear the new state of the union address! or at least the public poll reactions to the president's impromptu press conference defending Sydney. Or hear the opponent's reaction. And I like the idea of asking "why not have an aclu membership card?" I agreed with did the President that some things should be private, but I thought it showed much less public/poitical awareness then he showed in almost all other issues. And - how did she go from deciding to break up to going to bed - I thought that was a bit fast. But you do need to move the plot along sometimes.