The Town is a film released in 2010 and directed by Ben Affleck, Donald Murphy, Lisa Arnone. The runtime of The Town is 125 minutes (02 hours 05 minutes). The leading star actors of The Town are Ben Affleck, Blake Lively, Chris Cooper, Corena Chase, Jeremy Renner, Jon Hamm, Owen Burke, Pete Postlethwaite, Rebecca Hall, Titus Welliver. So far the movie has been viewed 1621 times. The main movie genre categories for The Town are: Crime, Drama, Thriller. Movies similar to The Town are Open Windows, High Heels and Low Lifes, Chi-Raq, Two Hands, Gunshy, Dancer in the Dark, Witness to the Mob, The Pledge, SPL: Kill Zone, Sugar & Spice, Analyze That, The Shepherd: Border Patrol, The International, Bangkok Dangerous, Ocean’s Eleven, Rob the Mob, The Fate of the Furious, Bristol Boys
Doug MacRay is a longtime thief, who, smarter than the rest of his crew, is looking for his chance to exit the game. When a bank job leads to the group kidnapping an attractive branch manager, he takes on the role of monitoring her – but their burgeoning relationship threatens to unveil the identities of Doug and his crew to the FBI Agent who is on their case.
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Release: 2010Runtime:125
Reviewed on: December 8th, 2001
Frank Sinatra, Jules Munshin and Gene Kelly go On the Town.
On the Town is a glorious, old-fashioned MGM musical. This was Gene Kelly and Frank Sinatra's third movie together and the second time they played sailors. Besides the obvious fact that between them they possessed the greatest singing and dancing talents of their generation, they also had a natural camaraderie together. Jules Munshin, Ann Miller, Vera-Ellen and Betty Garrett costar in this screen adaptation of the popular Broadway musical.
Kelly, Sinatra and Munshin are Gabey, Chip and Ozzie, three sailors on 24-hour shore leave in The Big Apple. They leave the ship at 6:00am and during a montage of shots, while the guys are singing 'New York, New York', they visit Liberty Island, the Brooklyn Bridge, Wall Street, Chinatown, Washington Square Park, Rockefeller Center, and even manage to horseback ride and bike ride through Central Park. When the song ends Frank Sinatra says, 'Come on fella's, it's 9:30 and we haven't been anywhere yet.'
Later, Gene Kelly sees a poster of 'Miss Turnstile for the month of June' (Vera-Ellen) on the subway, he mistakenly assumes her to be a big star, and is instantly smitten with her after a brief chance encounter. He then drags Sinatra and Munsin all over the city in a quest to find her. Along the way they meet a hot-to-trot lady cab driver (Garrett) who lusts after the naïve Sinatra, and a beautiful anthropologist played by Ann Miller, at the Museum of Natural History.
They decide to split up in their search, agreeing to meet at the top of the Empire State Building at 8:30pm. As the clock ticks along Gabey finally locates Miss Turnstile and so the three young couples reunite at the top of the city's tallest point. They go on to have a truly memorable evening together; including my favorite song, the joyously infectious title number performed by all six leads, and being chased by the cops at Coney Island. The movie ends where it began. The three sailors return to the ship at dawn, as three new sailors head off for their day of adventure in the big city.
On the Town has all the necessary ingredients to be a great musical. Great songs with witty lyrics and catchy melodies, inventive, energetic dance numbers, talented performers playing sympathetic characters with funny dialogue in ridiculous situations.
Reviewed on: December 8th, 2002
I was in the U.S. Navy. I sort of dreamed about it in my childhood. The first inclination I ever had about joining the Navy was when I was young and happened to watch On the Town on television with my dad. You wouldn't think such a light weight movie could have such an influence on anyone, but the guys in this movie have such a great time that I wanted to be a part of it.
Gene, Frank, and Jules play stereotypes. Gene is the romantic leader. Frank is the virgin. Jules is the party boy. I met all three of these stereotypes in the navy, plus a whole lot more, but that's another story.
New York is one of the greatest cities to explore. Patrick wrote about how the guys supposedly do tons of stuff in a mere three hours. Believe me, it can't be done. We tried. Frank wants to see it all while the other two just want to get laid. Again, I am reminded of a navy story but it's not appropriate.
Anyway, they each get a girl and do a lot of sight seeing. When my family and I saw Rockefeller Center last year I pictured Gene, Frank and Jules dancing there. In that scene, you can see a bunch of onlookers staring at the stars as they are performing. Couldn't MGM keep the gawkers away when filming?
The movie is filmed partially on location. The location shots are some of the best scenes. It's just too bad that the whole movie wasn't filmed that way. It is so painfully obvious when they are on a soundstage that you wonder why they even bothered decorating the set.
The movie is fast paced and loaded with, what would now be considered quaint, sexual innuendo. Miller sings a song about a cave man who wore a bear skin. She thens gives Munson a sexy look and says 'I really like bare skin.' Of course there is Garrett's randy cab driver who spends a great deal of time begging Sinatra to do her. 'Come up to my place.' she repeats too many times to count.
The funniest character in the movie gets introduced when Sinatra finally makes it to her place. Garrett's room mate, Lucy Schmeeler, is a hideous beast with a cold. They shoo her out so they can be alone. Later she becomes Gene's blind date when Miss Turnstyles is a no show.
One interesting thing to note about this movie is that Betty Garrett and Alice Pearce would both be remembered for supporting roles on famous television shows. Garrett was 'Laverne and Shirley's' land lady. Pearce was Samantha's nosey neighbor on 'Bewitched'.
This musical is better than most, but it has some weak spots. The romance between Gene and Vera is all corn. The location shoot should have encompassed the entire movie. Still, the character's pursuit of fun is infectious, and hey, it changed my life.
Reviewed on: December 13th, 2006
Any musical that stars Frank Sinatra and Gene Kelly and is basically a love letter to New York City, gets my vote. Like Eric, I do wish they could have filmed more of the movie actually on location. The real scenes on the street are in such sharp contrast to the sets that it is jarring.
While there aren't too many memorable songs in the movie, apart from 'New York, New York', there are a lot of laughs to be found. One of the best of the humorous numbers is when Frank's character wants to see the sites, but his guidebook is 40 years out-of-date, so Betty Garret keeps insisting that they go back to her place.
There are some great and funny lines in the movie as well. 'I know a place right across the Brooklyn Bridge where they'll never find us!' 'Where is it?' 'Brooklyn!' and 'He just wanted to see the sites, and boy did I show him plenty!'
As Eric said, Lucy, the hideous roommate, is one of the funniest characters. She steals most of the scenes in which she appears.
Although New York is a city that's constantly changing, I love that I can still visit Rockefeller Center or the Natural History Museum or the Brooklyn Bridge or Coney Island like they do in this movie, maybe not all in one day as these three do, but there's no denying it's as wonderful a town today as it was in 1949.
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Warning: this article contains spoilers for the podcast S-Town.
When S-Town’s seven episodes landed in one go on iTunes last year, it immediately became a podcast blockbuster, with 16m downloads in the first week. Unsurprisingly, then, it is being turned into a film, with Participant Media securing the rights. Spotlight’s Tom McCarthy is in the frame to direct. If anyone can bring such an offbeat story to the big screen, it’s probably an Oscar winner – but turning S-Town into a film won’t be an easy job.
The podcast was billed as a murder mystery, tapping in to the monstrously successful true-crime genre. But as S-Town unfolded, it took a different turn. There was no whodunnit. Instead, it gradually revealed the story of an eccentric and possibly gay horologist John B McLemore, a resident of what he termed “Shit Town, Alabama”. McLemore had emailed This American Life to claim the member of a wealthy family had gotten away with murder. When This American Life reporter Brian Reed started to investigate, he found a very different story. One that is atmospheric, moving and enthralling – and which, sadly, documented McLemore’s suicide early on.
If S-Town were a straightforward murder mystery, it would be ripe for a movie adaptation. McLemore would be depicted as the classic outsider who finds acceptance when he helps to solve a crime. He would be played by Owen Wilson or James Franco, but let’s not even get started on how podcasts are so evocative in creating mental images of their characters that any casting will disappoint. Maybe he would get a makeover at the end and ride off into the sunset with Jake Gyllenhaal, having been hailed a hero by the population of Woodstock, Alabama.
If S-Town were a straightforward murder mystery, it would be ripe for a movie adaptation
Putting together the pieces of the seven chapters of S-Town is a tough task. The story is fragmented, and it is the telling, rather than the way the plot moves on, that encourages listeners to keep listening. Reed is subtle and never judgmental in the way he unfurls the story, but S-Town’s cast of characters – some might be criminals, others are racists and plenty are downright nasty – is the sort that could easily come off as broad and caricatured when translated into movie shorthand.
To succeed, you suspect that S-Town the movie needs to signpost what it is from the off. Recent cinema history tells us that audiences who have parted with money in their local multiplex tend to like to get what they have promised. Despite getting rave reviews from the critics, Hereditary received a savage D+ CinemaScore rating by viewers for being slow-paced and arty rather than an in-your-face frightener, a similar fate to that which befell The Witch. There are moments of gothic horror in S-Town, with its chainsaws and inhalation of mind-bending mercury, but it’s so much more than that, and to suggest otherwise in its promotion would do the film a disservice.
There’s also a good chance that bringing S-Town to a wider audience could spark another backlash, centred on whether John B McLemore’s life should be examined at all. The recent hit podcast Missing Richard Simmons was criticised for being invasive and it is unlikely that a man as mysterious as McLemore would have felt comfortable seeing every facet of his life exposed on the big screen. His repressed sexuality and need for a “pain fix” from unusual sources seem like the details that the deceased might have liked to have been kept private.
S-Town the movie won’t offer a Hollywood happy ending, but it could make a life-affirming lesson. McLemore’s essay, Worthwhile Life Defined, in which he breaks down how much time the average person spends working, commuting and sleeping, is a powerful rejoinder to a busy generation.
And the suggestion that, despite his many demons and unhappy end, he led a satisfying life coaxing clocks back to life, playing records and looking up at the stars provides a powerful message of where real contentment lies.
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