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Maybe Baby (2000)
Great film
This film was terrific. The charisma between Joely Richardson and Hugh Laurie is terrific and completely believable. The movie is so powerful however that I would only advise seeing it in the company of others if you have already achieved your family size. In other words, it would be a very painful movie to watch with someone who was having trouble with infertility. It's funny, but it's also very true. For me, it touched at the heart of all the issues involved in infertility. And Ms Richardson is a superb actress. I've also seen her at the Haymarket in Lady Windemere's Fan and she is an excellent performer.
The semi-cameo (and slightly camp) performances by Dawn French, Joanna Lumley, Emma Thompson and Rowan Atkinson made for fun entertainment as well.
Suddenly (1954)
Fascinating film
I was fascinated to see a completely unknown film with such a strong cast, including Sinatra, where the subject was so prescient. It came out in 1954. Ten years before Kennedy's assassination in 1963.
The changes in America which have occurred since 1954 were also worth seeing. The standard of politeness of the boy. The way the woman went off to fix something to eat for the gangsters! The adorable way the three characters (woman, Sheriff and her father) were allowed to go into the bedroom to clean up the Sheriff's wound! Simpler time.
And finally, the moral-ism. "But you're an American" says one of the characters to the gangster. An "American" surely wouldn't shoot the President of the United States.