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Movie Notes: Finding Amanda

April 22nd, 2009

MoviesSynopsis

Television producer Taylor (Matthew Broderick) has a gambling problem, which proves problematic when he treks to Vegas to rescue his wayward niece Amanda (Brittany Snow) who is working as a prostitute. Note: this is supposed to be a comedy.

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Movie Notes: Wargames

January 17th, 2008

MoviesHigh school kid David Lightman (Matthew Broderick) is into computers. He hacks into a military computer looking for fun video games to play, and inadvertantly brings the United States to the brink of nuclear destruction by starting World War III.

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Movie Notes: The Producers

February 25th, 2007

MoviesThis is the film version of a hit Broadway musical that was based on a Mel Brooks film: an inverted, laughable situation that unfortunately, this film never touches on. The basic gist is that Broadway producers Max Bialystock (Nathan Lane) and Leo Bloom (Matthew Broderick) strive to stage a play so terrible that it’s a guaranteed flop – allowing them to run off with the investor’s money. Could this business model be applied to a Silicon Valley startup? Never mind.

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Movie Notes: The Stepford Wives

April 13th, 2006

MoviesThe Stepford Wives starring Nicole Kidman and Matthew Broderick is a real time waster of a movie, even as a rental. I chalk it up to a lack of guts.

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