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MOVIE RECOMMENDATION: PRETTY WOMAN...

Pretty Woman is 1990 American romantic comedy film directed by Garry Marshall, staring Richard Gere and Julia Roberts.   The movie is basically about Edward Lewis(Gere), a wealthy businessman who hires Vivian Wards(Julia Roberts), a carefree call-girl to be his escort for several business and social functions and then over the time how they gradually fall in love with each other. Vivian is the cynosure of the movie. Looking at the energetic spirit with which Vivian lives her life made Edward (whose life was shallow and empty) change his approach towards it.. Edward and Vivian being diametrically opposite people , confront many problems and the way they surpass it by bringing in needed amendments in their individual lives and learning from each other is being depicted out in the movie very beautifully..                                      Take away from the movie: ...

MOVIE RECOMMENDATION: LETTERS TO JULIET..

Letters To Juliet is an american romantic drama film directed by Gary Winick starring Amanda Seyfried, Christopher Egan, Gael Garia Bernal, Venessa Redgrave and Franco Nero. The film surrounds around young aspiring writer Sophie (Amanda Seyfried) who works for the New Yorker as fact checker. She heads for Italy for a pre-wedding vacation with her fiancee Victor (Gael Garcia Bernal), a workaholic who is obsessed with his impending restaurant opening and hence gets extremely busy with his work, neglecting Sophie. So here Sophie decides to play tourist alone and ends up at the home of the fictional Juliet Capulet where she sees unhappy women of all ages writing longing letters and notes to lost and unrequited love and sticking them into stone wall. Later, she discovered that these letters were collected and then answered by a group of women known as 'Secretaries of Juliet'. Sophie asks to join them and later while gathering the letter she accidentally finds a 50- year old l...

MOVIE RECOMMENDATION: THE PURSUIT OF HAPPYNESS...

'The Pursuit of Happyness' is a 2006 American biographical drama film directed by Gabriele Muccino starring Will Smith as Chris Gardner and Jaden Smith as Gardner's son, Christopher. The movie starts with Chris Gardner dropping his little kid Christopher to the playschool. Chris Gardner: [narrating] I met my father for the first time when I was 28 years old. I made up my mind that when I had children, my children were going to know who their father was.. Chris Gardner invests his entire life savings in portable bone density scanner which he sold for a living. Chris Gardner: This part of my life story .., this part is called riding a bus..  He was not able to sell enough scanners so as to pay the bills and the rent. The time lag between the sales and growing financial demands enrage his already bitter and alienated wife Linda, who works as hotel maid. Chris Gardner: This part of my life is called being stupid.. Trusting a hippie girl with his scanner (meanwh...

MOVIE RECOMMENDATION : ROOM..

Room, is a 2015 film directed by Lenny Abrahamson and written by Emma Donoghue based on her 2010 novel. It stars Brie Larson (Ma) as a mother of little 5 year old boy (Jack) and two of them are trapped in a Room .. yes a Room- with just four walls, a bed, a table, a wardrobe and an old T.V. Brie Larson has been held captive for seven years and her five year old son was born in Room. Brie Larson creates this fairy tale kind of existence for her little boy and convinces him that their life is perfectly normal , that there is nothing wrong with being trapped in a 10-by-10 Room for years.., where a mysterious stranger (old Nick) comes to drop off supplies and hurts Ma. The movie begins with little boy (Jack) telling us how he came into the possession of his mother.. He wakes up and greets every piece of furniture in Room as for Jack everything has a personality and a proper name.. Jack: Good Morning Lamp..          Good Morning plant..     ...