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A simple story with interesting and likable characters. No dirty jokes or nudity. Just a story about a young man running out of money and having to leave San Francisco and return to his hometown in New York. For the past year he has rented out a room to a young woman to help make ends meet. As he is about to leave he realizes he really cares about the roommate but she already has a boyfriend with a decent job.

Another woman is delivering a package to his boss, a poet, and enters his life in a different way. She almost steals the film.

I expect the talent in this movie will appear in future films. Good indie band soundtrack too.

This starts off as a fine movie. Excellent acting, especially by Michael Clarke Duncan in a marvelous turn as a condemned saint-like man. But as the Steven King plot begins to thicken so does the layers of pathos laid on by writer-director Frank Darabont. This is not a bad movie but an unterminable one that tries too hard to be important. Three hours can make one weary of the best intentioned designs. Framed like Titanic I predict it will also be wildly popular. It seems we can no longer recognize when we are being fed a sour pill.

A true story told in flashbacks of a Japanese serial killer. This film requires your attention because of the flashbacks and the ever changing locations. The killer, played creepily by Ken Ogata, is also a con artist. He seduces women and has no conscience. A subplot involves the more than friendship between the wife he leaves behind and his father. An untraditional violent, sexy and vastly entertaining film for the serious filmgoer.