![]() Things are no longer about her own survival, but she now has a newborn girl to keep alive as well. ![]() Within days of being marooned in the middle of nowhere in the Atlantic Ocean, Mia is alone when she goes through the agonizing process of childbirth. She is stranded inside a metal box and left to her own devices to survive. But once the ship leaves port and begins its journey, it is hit by a massive storm and the container that Mia is hiding in is swept overboard and into the middle of the open waters. Somehow, the pregnant Mia manages to keep quiet after the deplorable slaughter, but suddenly finds herself alone inside a freight box armed only with her phone. You get to see just how brutal the regime is when an entire container full of dozens of helpless people trying to escape into an adjacent container is gunned down by a cruel and detached soldier who relishes the opportunity to kill innocents. It really resonates with some of the refugee crises that we are seeing today, as the oppressed people of countries similar to the one portrayed in Nowhere head out of their homeland in search of a better life. ![]() The pair is seeking to get out from under the murderous military rule of their home country so that their newborn can know freedom. They are having a child together, and Mia is very close to giving birth as the story begins. Matchstick Men’s twist is both satisfying and heartbreaking, just like this hidden gem of a movie.Set in a country that is never specified, Mia and Nico are two young lovers looking to stowaway on one of the containers at a storage yard that is being placed on an ocean liner set to sail. Alison Lohman is excellent as the young woman who’s delighted to discover that her dad is a small-time criminal, but who may have secrets of her own. Nicolas Cage gets to engage in one of his signature freak-outs as his character has a meltdown in a pharmacy, but most of his performance is appealingly subdued.Ĭage plays a neurotic grifter whose life is upended by the appearance of the teenage daughter he never knew. Scott proves adept at balancing a lighthearted crime caper with touching interpersonal drama, which come together in the movie’s major third-act twist. ![]() This con-artist dramedy is a departure for director Ridley Scott, which may be why it doesn’t get the attention it deserves. Rent or buy on Amazon or Apple Matchstick Men It turns out that his elaborate plan has nothing on Barbara’s own elaborate plan, which is revealed in one of the funniest moments of this hilarious, subversive film. She’s targeted by suave magazine writer Catcher Block (Ewan McGregor), who hatches an elaborate plan to make her fall in love with him and expose her as a fraud. Zellweger plays the author of a book that has inspired the women of 1962 to throw out the idea of romance and play the field just like men do. Before that bombshell arrives, director Peyton Reed’s film is a delightful pastiche of frothy, candy-colored 1960s romantic comedies, with brilliant production and costume design and witty, sparkling dialogue. Renee Zellweger delivers one of the best performances of her career in this underrated rom-com, and the centerpiece is an epic monologue that lays out a jaw-dropping twist about the background and motivations of her character, self-help author Barbara Novak. ![]()
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