The beautiful, sometimes funny, sometimes heartbreaking film is a portrait of grandmotherly love and the many forms family can take. Her solution is to meet up with Michelle while she's in Paris and convince the first lady to adopt her (easy enough right?). Hawa, the film's protagonist, is a young French girl who is worried that child services will intervene because her grandmother, with whom she lives, is getting old and suffers from various health concerns. If I could, I too would gladly be adopted by Barack and Michelle, who seem like the loveliest, sort of dorky, but also kind of cool parents one could find. This is the most relatable feeling in the entire world. Not to be confused with Hawa, the 2003 horror film, Hawa, the 2022 mystery, and Hawaa, the 2019 suspense thriller, Hawa, the 2022 drama, is about a girl who wants to be adopted by Michelle Obama. This movie may say it's a 54 Double D, but I'm going to give it an A+.Ĭast: Sania Halifa, Oumou Sangare, Yseult, and Kamrul Hossain PLUS John Travolta as Edna Turnblad is pure genius. The fact this film didn't get a single Oscar nomination is laughable. "Nicest Kids in Town," "Good Morning Baltimore," "Miss Baltimore Crabs." This is one of the best modern movie musicals, and the cast, including Oscar-winner Allison Janney ( "devil child") and pre-spray tan Zac Efron, is perfectly constructed. The fact that it fits seventeen songs into less than two hours is a testament to just how much of this film is music. The great songs just roll one into another into another with very little fluff or dialogue in between. And let me tell you, this is an "all killer no filler" film. I rewatched Hairspray this summer after having seen it multiple times as a teen and working the CD to death in my mom's minivan. Rotten Tomatoes: 92% (Critics), 84% (Audience) is the cutest alien ever, and if you haven't seen this romp, you need to stream it (because you probably don't have a VCR which is the optimal way to watch it).Ĭast: John Travolta, Michelle Pfeiffer, Christopher Walken, Amanda Bynes, James Marsden, Brittany Snow, Queen Latifah, Zac Efron, Elijah Kelley, Allison Janney, and Nikki Blonsky Phone home" became one of the most quoted movie lines of all time. Drew Barrymore is a scene stealer as the younger sister, the image of Elliott riding his bike past the moon became the logo for Amblin Entertainment, Spielberg's production company, and "E.T. Spielberg's classic about a boy who becomes besties with a long-necked alien, feeds it Reese's Pieces, dresses it up as an old lady, and tries to get it back to its spaceship is a crowd pleaser for the ages. People saw it over and over again pushing it to be the highest-grossing film, a title it held until Jurassic Park came around eleven years later. The film was in theaters for MONTHS pre-internet and streaming. I think it's hard for us in the year 2022 to imagine the power E.T. Rotten Tomatoes: 99% (Critics), 72% (Audience) It's a beautiful story of an odd-couple friendship that makes you look around and say, "OK, which one of my writer friends is gonna help me get famous?"Ĭast: Dee Wallace, Henry Thomas, Peter Coyote, Robert MacNaughton, and Drew Barrymore In the film, Philip Seymour Hoffman (who won the Oscar) and Catherine Keener (who was nominated for one) play the literary duo as Capote investigates a set of brutal murders in Kansas that will become the basis for his iconic genre-creator. Turns out that the effeminate, gay New York socialite and the reclusive, Southern tough old bird were actually best friends who helped each other write their masterworks. No college genre lit course on true crime could be complete without Truman Capote's In Cold Blood, and no eighth-grade English class could be complete without Harper Lee's To Kill a Mockingbird. Rotten Tomatoes: 89% (Critics), 82% (Audience) Cast: Philip Seymour Hoffman, Catherine Keener, Clifton Collins Jr., Bruce Greenwood, Mark Pellegrino, Amy Ryan, and Chris Cooper
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