Showing posts with label Nick Nolte. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Nick Nolte. Show all posts

Sunday, May 24, 2026

Movie Review: ***Hotel Rwanda (2004)

 This movie is very intense.  I am glad I saw it once, but there is too much killing and cadavers all over the place to watch it more than once.  This is about the genocide of the Tutsi population by the Hutu.  The Hutu controlled the government fighting the rebels.  The rebels succeeded in killing the president which triggered the killing.  Paul Resesabagina (Don Cheadle) manages a hotel where many Tutsi come to avoid the war.  His wife, Tatiana (Sophie Okonedo) takes up supporting the orphans who show up.  The U.N. Colonel Oliver (Nick Nolte) provides all the support he can, and in the end helps them get away to the U.N. reception area.  They keep searching for Sophie's brother and her wife who have gone missing.  They never are able to find them, but they do find their daughters at the reception center.  Joaquin Phoenix plays a t.v. reporter.


Friday, October 18, 2013

Movie Review: ***^ Cannery Row

The credits indicate this is based on the John Steinbeck books Cannery Row and Sweet Thursday.  It is 90 percent Sweet Thursday with a little Cannery Row, like the frog roundup thrown in for good luck.  The first book let us know that Suzy wasn't the first to live in the boiler.  A couple had preceded her.  We don't see this in the movie.  The movie has a couple twists to the relationship of Doc (Nick Nolte) and Suzy, (Debra Winger) like Doc having been a baseball player.  Doc's place gets broken up like the first book, and he ticks off Suzy like in the second book.  I like the spunkiness of Suzy's character.  However I think she was too hookerized.  Part of the fun of the book is she just didn't fit with that life style.  There was no way for the movie to portray the different voices talking to the Doc.  They really make the book interesting, the drive and the futility of the drive. 
Nolte does an adequate job as the Doc.  He does seem more like and ex-baseball player than the Doc from the book.  I miss the Doc's rich eccentric friend, who sponsors him in the end to get a high powered microscope.  The movie ends with Mac and the boys earning money and they mistakenly get him a telescope.
This movie ends happy with Suzy learning to drive so she can drive Doc to La Joya.