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IMDB rating: 8.50 Plot: A novelist - Jack Torrance take a job interview as winter caretaker of the isolated, old, huge and beautiful Overlook Hotel. In the interview, Jack is told by the manager himself, that the previous caretaker - Grady, chopped his family and later killed himself with a shotgun. Ignoring the story, Jack brings his wife - Wendy and his son Danny. It happens that Danny, has a mysterious power known as “The Shining” that shows him things from the past and future. Some of the visions come from Tony - “the little boy who lives in Danny’s mouth”. Danny meets Hallorann - the hotel cook in their first day arriving at the Overlook, who also has this “Shining” and he warns him about the hotel and the sinister Room 237. As the days go by, Danny has visions of previous guests and employees who died at the hotel years before, meanwhile Jack starts driving into insanity, turning more and more aggressive, at the point that Danny and Wendy gets convinced that Jack might try to do the same thing, Grady did. |
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The peole who won best actor in a leading role during the last 20 years were great but… Who did it the best?
List the 1, 2 and 3 position please.
If I skipped someone please forgive me because I am writing these with just my memory.
Sean Penn (Milk)
Daniel Day Lewis (There will be blood)
Forest Whitaker (The last king of Scotland)
Phillip Seymour Hoffman (Capote)
Jamie Foxx (Ray)
Sean Penn (Mystic River)
Adrien Brody (The Pianist)
Denzel Washington (Training Day)
Russel Crowe (Gladiator)
Kevin Spacey (American Beauty)
Roberto Benigni (Life is Beautiful)
Jack Nicholson (As Good as it Gets)
Geofrey Rush (Shine)
Nicolas Cage (Leving Las Vegas)
Tom Hanks (Forest Gump)
Tom Hanks (Philadelphia)
Al Pacino (Scent of a Woman)
Anthony Hopkins (The Silence of the Lambs)
Jeremy Irons (Reversal of Fortune)
Daniel Day Lewis (My Left Foot)
Daniel Day Lewis.
I’m a sucker for Kevin Spacey in American Beauty though. His wry expression when slouching about the house with the remote control car and the delivering of his lines get me every time.
MaxVoorsht | Nov 19, 2009
Phillip Seymour Hoffman
Ginger Billy | Nov 19, 2009
There is NO way I can pick just one performance, so I’ll just leave my favorites:
Sean Penn (Milk)
Forest Whitaker (The last king of Scotland)
Phillip Seymour Hoffman (Capote)
Jamie Foxx (Ray)
Russel Crowe (Gladiator)
Geofrey Rush (Shine)
Nicolas Cage (Leving Las Vegas)
Tom Hanks (Philadelphia)
Anthony Hopkins (The Silence of the Lambs)
Daniel Day Lewis (My Left Foot)
Melissa The Artiste (GO SAINTS!) | Nov 19, 2009
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