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COM14 - Assessment Task 1 - Part 3
Review of a Thriller
The Skeleton Key
Director: Iain Softley
Producer: Clayton Townsend, Daniel Bobker, Stacey Sher
Cast: Kate Hudson, Gena Rowlands, John Hurt, Peter Sarsgaard, Joy Bryant
Running time: 104 minutes
Rating: PG-13 for violence, disturbing images, partial nudity, thematic material.
By Rosemarie Herbert
From the start, something is not quite right at home, as The Skeleton Key opens to [...]

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What’s Eating Gilbert Grape is a memorable story of desire colliding with responsibility. Discuss.
What’s Eating Gilbert Grape is a memorable story of desire colliding with responsibility. Gilbert Grape must look after Arnie 24/7, but also stop himself from becoming like his father, with no hopes or needs. This fine line is sliced by his relationship [...]

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Lasse Hallstrom shows us that the traditional family is not always the best family. Discuss.
In the film “What’s Eating Gilbert Grape?” Lasse Hallstrom shows us that the traditional family is not always the best family. This raises the question: what is traditional? Is it a family with a mother, father and children? By this rule, [...]

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No, I don’t mean the kind of cookie that infests your computer with junk that clutters up your hard-drive and makes a mess. I don’t mean the kind that prevent you from double voting in my poll either
I mean the wonderful kind that you bake for your partner, or just give out randomly. [...]

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