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funky_chick
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I rarely notice jewelry or shoes :shrug:
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margravine_l
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Aww...thanks for those 
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that Sofia went to honor Cameron at the unveiling of her star. They seem to have gotten really close on the set of this film which is why I think their portrayal as a family will be amazing!
Abigail was hilarious talking about her turtle!
I that Sofia went to honor Cameron at the unveiling of her star. They seem to have gotten really close on the set of this film which is why I think their portrayal as a family will be amazing!Abigail was hilarious talking about her turtle!
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It looks like there's loads of really great Sofia/Abby scenes I can't wait to see those because I feel like we missed out on a lot of Anna/Kate scenes in the book.
I know breakingfree finishing the book made me want to see the movie even more!
I can't wait to see those because I feel like we missed out on a lot of Anna/Kate scenes in the book.I know breakingfree finishing the book made me want to see the movie even more!
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Nick Cassavetes and Cameron Diaz on 'My Sister's Keeper'
In 'My Sister's Keeper,' starring Cameron Diaz, Nick Cassavetes sees parallels with his own family's experience.
By Rachel Abramowitz
June 21, 2009
Real men do shed tears.
That's the conclusion one gets from sitting down with Nick Cassavetes, the 6-foot-6-inch, square-jawed, mustachioed, multi-tattooed film director who was so wild and belligerent as a kid that his mother -- actress Gena Rowlands -- gave him a suitcase for his 16th birthday so he could pack up and move out. Now, a couple of lifetimes later, he's made the film "My Sister's Keeper," a movie that requires even more Kleenex than his last hit tear-jerker, 2004's "The Notebook."
"As a society, we are trained not to feel things. We respect things that are scientific and cerebral and smart, and this ain't one," Cassavetes says over water and tea at the Chateau Marmont. His friend, the film's star, Cameron Diaz, sits across from him, all long legs and scarves and jeans and jewelry.
Throughout the afternoon, the 50-year-old Cassavetes can't stop showering Diaz with loud, brash adulation, while she looks at him with the fondness one reserves for a beloved papa bear. Diaz focuses on him intently with those limpid eyes, as green-blue as a bay in the Bahamas, and unconsciously twirls her uncoiffed blond hair with a finger.
The film, based on the Jodi Picoult bestseller, tells the story of a family coping with the elder daughter's debilitating cancer. As part of the mother's unbending plan to do everything possible to save the girl, a younger daughter had been deliberately procreated to provide bone marrow and other genetic material for the dying teen. As the story progresses, the younger girl (played by Abigail Breslin) sues her parents to stop making her undergo the many medical procedures -- in effect, for control of her own body.
"I guarantee you that everyone who read this script saw it as a TV movie, a cushy, sappy tear-jerker," says Diaz, who plays the mother. "But when you say Nick Cassavetes is directing, it changes everything."
"She's being too kind. It's a nonsympathetic part," says Cassavetes. Viewers will certainly be surprised to see Diaz playing a former corporate killer turned rabid maternal angel who will do anything to prevent her daughter's death.
Or as Diaz explains, she'd "jump off a cliff" for her child. "Step in front of a train. You do whatever it takes for them to survive. Even if it means you don't sleep for 10 years. Or it means that you don't have one day where you can be empathetic. It's not one second that you can let up. I think that it is something that every parent can relate to -- anyone who deeply loves someone."
'This girl can do it'
Cassavetes, the son of famed independent film director John Cassavetes, has been acquainted with Diaz since both shared an agent 15 years ago, when she was just breaking into Hollywood with "The Mask" and he was a character actor playing heavies in such films as "Face/Off." He sought out Diaz for the role, even though she's best known for such broad comedies as "There's Something About Mary."
"We are all aware that Cameron doesn't have children in real life, and [everyone said], 'Won't you hire someone named Kate for this part?' but I was bored with that," says Cassavetes of the pleas for the reigning queens of dramas, Kate Winslet and Cate Blanchett. "I was like, 'This girl can do it.' I wanted to show people what I already know."
He also pushed Diaz not to play the mother as a sympathetic "victim."
"Nick was like, 'You don't cry in this movie till the end. You don't cry,' " Diaz says. When the actors did get teary, Cassavetes nearly always cut it out of the movie.
Though Diaz might be the shiniest name on the marquee, "My Sister's Keeper" is an ensemble piece in which the perspective in the drama shifts through each family member -- the ignored brother (Evan Ellingson), the stoic father (Jason Patric), the dying girl (Sofia Vassilieva) in the throes of her first romance with another cancer patient and the little sister, who convinces an ambulance-chasing lawyer, played by Alec Baldwin, to take her case. It's the constant fracturing and recombining of the family that ultimately proves so moving.
A parent's devotion
"My Sister's Keeper" is undoubtedly the most personal story for Cassavetes, who reveals somewhere in the conversation that his oldest daughter, now 23, has suffered from a congenital heart defect since birth. "It's the gift that keeps on giving," he says ironically, though he notes that the unexpected wallop of it made him grow up.
He understands the mother character's single-minded devotion to her child. Cassavetes tells a story about when his daughter was little and had to have an operation for scoliosis, a spine condition that often accompanies such heart defects. "She had gotten pneumonia and there was a chance she was going to die. They were sticking a tube down her nose and in her lungs every hour and were making her cough. It was very brutal and hard on her, and I could literally see the life sucked out of my daughter." Finally, Cassavetes threw the doctors out. "They were like, 'You are killing your daughter. She needs these things. She could be dead by morning.' I said, 'I want [you] out of the room.' "
His daughter survived the night, and Cassavetes ultimately apologized to the doctors, but, as he points out, "I know what is best for my kid, and I am going to get it. Why? Because that is my job. Why have kids? Because they are pretty to look at? No, you have got to protect them until they get big enough, and then they can protect themselves."
"It's always present with him," Diaz says. "There were moments when we were in a scene and I'd look over, and Nick's by the camera and he is crying. Tears are coming down his face. That's how generous he is." As she speaks, her eyes begin to tear up.
For Diaz, the director, with his huge bark and equally huge heart, always reminded her of her own father. Throughout filming, she'd mention frequently that Cassavetes would have to come with her to visit her folks. Three weeks before the end of shooting, however, Diaz's father died of a heart attack. It was devastating for her.
After a few days off, she returned to work. "I was kind of in shock," she says.
"She was totally stunned. She had the look. Couldn't feel anything," Cassavetes says.
"It was really fortunate to be able to go back someplace really safe," Diaz says. "Nick's experience with his father's death was something that he shared a lot with me about, even before my dad died."
John Cassavetes -- the irascible director who pioneered a kind of documentary-style realism in such films as "Women Under the Influence" -- died of cirrhosis of the liver in 1989. "It was horrible," says his son, whose stoicism in the moment certainly informs "My Sister's Keeper," a film that doesn't ennoble suffering.
"We put him in the ground on a Friday, and on Monday I had an audition. I was auditioning as an actor back then, and I remember looking in the window thinking, 'Dude, go home.' I knew, No. 1, I wasn't getting the job and, No. 2, what are you doing? Then I thought, 'What am I supposed to do?' You don't know. Life goes on. That's the beauty of it and absolute tragedy of it."
Nick Cassavetes and Cameron Diaz on 'My Sister's Keeper' - Los Angeles Times
In 'My Sister's Keeper,' starring Cameron Diaz, Nick Cassavetes sees parallels with his own family's experience.
By Rachel Abramowitz
June 21, 2009
Real men do shed tears.
That's the conclusion one gets from sitting down with Nick Cassavetes, the 6-foot-6-inch, square-jawed, mustachioed, multi-tattooed film director who was so wild and belligerent as a kid that his mother -- actress Gena Rowlands -- gave him a suitcase for his 16th birthday so he could pack up and move out. Now, a couple of lifetimes later, he's made the film "My Sister's Keeper," a movie that requires even more Kleenex than his last hit tear-jerker, 2004's "The Notebook."
"As a society, we are trained not to feel things. We respect things that are scientific and cerebral and smart, and this ain't one," Cassavetes says over water and tea at the Chateau Marmont. His friend, the film's star, Cameron Diaz, sits across from him, all long legs and scarves and jeans and jewelry.
Throughout the afternoon, the 50-year-old Cassavetes can't stop showering Diaz with loud, brash adulation, while she looks at him with the fondness one reserves for a beloved papa bear. Diaz focuses on him intently with those limpid eyes, as green-blue as a bay in the Bahamas, and unconsciously twirls her uncoiffed blond hair with a finger.
The film, based on the Jodi Picoult bestseller, tells the story of a family coping with the elder daughter's debilitating cancer. As part of the mother's unbending plan to do everything possible to save the girl, a younger daughter had been deliberately procreated to provide bone marrow and other genetic material for the dying teen. As the story progresses, the younger girl (played by Abigail Breslin) sues her parents to stop making her undergo the many medical procedures -- in effect, for control of her own body.
"I guarantee you that everyone who read this script saw it as a TV movie, a cushy, sappy tear-jerker," says Diaz, who plays the mother. "But when you say Nick Cassavetes is directing, it changes everything."
"She's being too kind. It's a nonsympathetic part," says Cassavetes. Viewers will certainly be surprised to see Diaz playing a former corporate killer turned rabid maternal angel who will do anything to prevent her daughter's death.
Or as Diaz explains, she'd "jump off a cliff" for her child. "Step in front of a train. You do whatever it takes for them to survive. Even if it means you don't sleep for 10 years. Or it means that you don't have one day where you can be empathetic. It's not one second that you can let up. I think that it is something that every parent can relate to -- anyone who deeply loves someone."
'This girl can do it'
Cassavetes, the son of famed independent film director John Cassavetes, has been acquainted with Diaz since both shared an agent 15 years ago, when she was just breaking into Hollywood with "The Mask" and he was a character actor playing heavies in such films as "Face/Off." He sought out Diaz for the role, even though she's best known for such broad comedies as "There's Something About Mary."
"We are all aware that Cameron doesn't have children in real life, and [everyone said], 'Won't you hire someone named Kate for this part?' but I was bored with that," says Cassavetes of the pleas for the reigning queens of dramas, Kate Winslet and Cate Blanchett. "I was like, 'This girl can do it.' I wanted to show people what I already know."
He also pushed Diaz not to play the mother as a sympathetic "victim."
"Nick was like, 'You don't cry in this movie till the end. You don't cry,' " Diaz says. When the actors did get teary, Cassavetes nearly always cut it out of the movie.
Though Diaz might be the shiniest name on the marquee, "My Sister's Keeper" is an ensemble piece in which the perspective in the drama shifts through each family member -- the ignored brother (Evan Ellingson), the stoic father (Jason Patric), the dying girl (Sofia Vassilieva) in the throes of her first romance with another cancer patient and the little sister, who convinces an ambulance-chasing lawyer, played by Alec Baldwin, to take her case. It's the constant fracturing and recombining of the family that ultimately proves so moving.
A parent's devotion
"My Sister's Keeper" is undoubtedly the most personal story for Cassavetes, who reveals somewhere in the conversation that his oldest daughter, now 23, has suffered from a congenital heart defect since birth. "It's the gift that keeps on giving," he says ironically, though he notes that the unexpected wallop of it made him grow up.
He understands the mother character's single-minded devotion to her child. Cassavetes tells a story about when his daughter was little and had to have an operation for scoliosis, a spine condition that often accompanies such heart defects. "She had gotten pneumonia and there was a chance she was going to die. They were sticking a tube down her nose and in her lungs every hour and were making her cough. It was very brutal and hard on her, and I could literally see the life sucked out of my daughter." Finally, Cassavetes threw the doctors out. "They were like, 'You are killing your daughter. She needs these things. She could be dead by morning.' I said, 'I want [you] out of the room.' "
His daughter survived the night, and Cassavetes ultimately apologized to the doctors, but, as he points out, "I know what is best for my kid, and I am going to get it. Why? Because that is my job. Why have kids? Because they are pretty to look at? No, you have got to protect them until they get big enough, and then they can protect themselves."
"It's always present with him," Diaz says. "There were moments when we were in a scene and I'd look over, and Nick's by the camera and he is crying. Tears are coming down his face. That's how generous he is." As she speaks, her eyes begin to tear up.
For Diaz, the director, with his huge bark and equally huge heart, always reminded her of her own father. Throughout filming, she'd mention frequently that Cassavetes would have to come with her to visit her folks. Three weeks before the end of shooting, however, Diaz's father died of a heart attack. It was devastating for her.
After a few days off, she returned to work. "I was kind of in shock," she says.
"She was totally stunned. She had the look. Couldn't feel anything," Cassavetes says.
"It was really fortunate to be able to go back someplace really safe," Diaz says. "Nick's experience with his father's death was something that he shared a lot with me about, even before my dad died."
John Cassavetes -- the irascible director who pioneered a kind of documentary-style realism in such films as "Women Under the Influence" -- died of cirrhosis of the liver in 1989. "It was horrible," says his son, whose stoicism in the moment certainly informs "My Sister's Keeper," a film that doesn't ennoble suffering.
"We put him in the ground on a Friday, and on Monday I had an audition. I was auditioning as an actor back then, and I remember looking in the window thinking, 'Dude, go home.' I knew, No. 1, I wasn't getting the job and, No. 2, what are you doing? Then I thought, 'What am I supposed to do?' You don't know. Life goes on. That's the beauty of it and absolute tragedy of it."
Nick Cassavetes and Cameron Diaz on 'My Sister's Keeper' - Los Angeles Times
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Chuck the Movieguy interviews Sofia Vassilieva, Cameron Diaz and Abigail Breslin
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Infallible_Love: I agree Sofia was absolutely amazing in this film. I bet we'll see great things from her in the future off the back of it. I've never seen Medium but I'm thinking I might have to check it out now :lol:
I also that the film managed to make you laugh at some moments as well. One I really enjoyed was when Anna [sp] flashbacked to her and Kate in the hospital where she pretended apple juice was her urine and then drank it in front of the nurse [/sp]
What I liked about that scene was that although it was funny it was also really sad at the same time. If that makes sense?
ice_ice_baby: Aww...I liked those two scenes as well
chicaanglaise: I know right? I totally expected them to do that so I was surprised when they didn't. I guess at the end of the day the message of the film was that [sp] sometimes you have to accept that death is inevitable and enjoy your life whilst you can [/sp]
I loved the book! I know some people are really angry, but book to movie adaptations never live up to what the fans of the book want. The only one that I personally think has ever come close was the Lord of the Rings Movies. I think people that are fans of the book need to go into the movie and judge it in it's own right. There will be things that are recognisable and things that aren't. At least, that's how I went into the movie and probably why I enjoyed it.
I do prefer the book ending but I think the ending of the movie was more appropriate for the story they portrayed on screen. The other ending wouldn't have fit with the message that I think they were trying to get across. I would have to have seen that ending played out though
Sofia was absolutely amazing in this film. I bet we'll see great things from her in the future off the back of it. I've never seen Medium but I'm thinking I might have to check it out now :lol:I also
that the film managed to make you laugh at some moments as well. One I really enjoyed was when Anna [sp] flashbacked to her and Kate in the hospital where she pretended apple juice was her urine and then drank it in front of the nurse [/sp]What I liked about that scene was that although it was funny it was also really sad at the same time. If that makes sense?
ice_ice_baby: Aww...I liked those two scenes as well
chicaanglaise: I know right? I totally expected them to do that so I was surprised when they didn't. I guess at the end of the day the message of the film was that [sp] sometimes you have to accept that death is inevitable and enjoy your life whilst you can [/sp]
I loved the book! I know some people are really angry, but book to movie adaptations never live up to what the fans of the book want. The only one that I personally think has ever come close was the Lord of the Rings Movies. I think people that are fans of the book need to go into the movie and judge it in it's own right. There will be things that are recognisable and things that aren't. At least, that's how I went into the movie and probably why I enjoyed it.
I do prefer the book ending but I think the ending of the movie was more appropriate for the story they portrayed on screen. The other ending wouldn't have fit with the message that I think they were trying to get across. I would have
to have seen that ending played out though
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Rona Jo
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The trailer looks good. It comes out two days before my birthday.
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Lennie1984
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Diaz Cooks Up A Treat For Co-stars
14 June 2009 4:15 PM, PDT | From wenn.com | See recent WENN news
Cameron Diaz showed off her culinary skills on the set of new movie My Sister's Keeper by cooking up daily treats for her young co-stars.
Sofia Vassilieva and Abigail Breslin played the Shrek star's daughters in the harrowing new film and Diaz felt the need to play set mum to them in her trailer, which she turned into a dining spot.
Breslin explains, "Cameron would cook in her trailer a lot for us. She made excellent chili cheese fries with guacamole."
And Diaz wasn't about to make sure the girls ate healthy food: "Each one of them got to pick what they wanted to eat for lunch."
But the treats weren't all fun for Vassilieva, who plays a cancer sufferer in the film.
Diaz says, "Sofia was on a special diet for the whole movie and her discipline was amazing. I kept trying to make her eat things she wasn't supposed to."
Diaz Cooks Up A Treat For Co-stars
14 June 2009 4:15 PM, PDT | From wenn.com | See recent WENN news
Cameron Diaz showed off her culinary skills on the set of new movie My Sister's Keeper by cooking up daily treats for her young co-stars.
Sofia Vassilieva and Abigail Breslin played the Shrek star's daughters in the harrowing new film and Diaz felt the need to play set mum to them in her trailer, which she turned into a dining spot.
Breslin explains, "Cameron would cook in her trailer a lot for us. She made excellent chili cheese fries with guacamole."
And Diaz wasn't about to make sure the girls ate healthy food: "Each one of them got to pick what they wanted to eat for lunch."
But the treats weren't all fun for Vassilieva, who plays a cancer sufferer in the film.
Diaz says, "Sofia was on a special diet for the whole movie and her discipline was amazing. I kept trying to make her eat things she wasn't supposed to."
Diaz Cooks Up A Treat For Co-stars
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madi.loves.ns
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I can't wait for this movie, it looks great!
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chicaanglaise
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[sp]Yes, I would have liked that too, especially when he sneaked in and his father didn't realise he had been out. I mean, they kind of let it all up to us. [/sp]
[sp]that was what I thought was going to happen, I didn't expect the shrieking from Sara and then Anna confirming she had died. [/sp]
Some people are very angry.Spoilery if you haven't seen the film or read the book.
The Channel 4 reviewer here in the UK didn't like the film..
She had nice words for Sofia though..
[sp]that was what I thought was going to happen, I didn't expect the shrieking from Sara and then Anna confirming she had died. [/sp]
Some people are very angry.Spoilery if you haven't seen the film or read the book.
The Channel 4 reviewer here in the UK didn't like the film..
She had nice words for Sofia though..
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margravine_l
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It would be great if she had her own board. Especially as she's only a young actress at the moment, she's got a massive future ahead of her. I was trying to think the other day who she's worked with and the list is actually pretty impressive.
Mel Gibson
Joaquin Phoenix
Johnny Depp (Rango)
Cameron Diaz
Catherine Zeta Jones
Dan Corbett
Joan Cusack
Helen Mirren
Felicity Huffman
Anne Hathaway
Julie Andrews
Damien Lewis
Paul Dano
Jennifer Love Hewitt
Ryan Reynolds
Isla Fisher
Elizabeth Banks
Jodi Foster
Gerard Butler
Julia Ormond
Chris O'Donnell
Bill Murray
Toni Collette
Alan Arkin
Steve Carrell
Aaron Eckart
Greg Kinear
Kate Hudson
Alec Baldwin
Woody Harrelson (upcoming Zombieland)
That's only who I could think of and not including her TV roles....
Also, I found out she would have worked with Joan Cusack three times, Raising Helen, My Sisters Keeper, Kit Kittredge: American Girl
I've heard about that movie as well Sounds like it's going to be another big role for Abigail. From what I've read it's another pretty controversial storyline and she'll be working along more big actors and actresses. I hope Abigail gets a lot of recognition again
Mel Gibson
Joaquin Phoenix
Johnny Depp (Rango)
Cameron Diaz
Catherine Zeta Jones
Dan Corbett
Joan Cusack
Helen Mirren
Felicity Huffman
Anne Hathaway
Julie Andrews
Damien Lewis
Paul Dano
Jennifer Love Hewitt
Ryan Reynolds
Isla Fisher
Elizabeth Banks
Jodi Foster
Gerard Butler
Julia Ormond
Chris O'Donnell
Bill Murray
Toni Collette
Alan Arkin
Steve Carrell
Aaron Eckart
Greg Kinear
Kate Hudson
Alec Baldwin
Woody Harrelson (upcoming Zombieland)
That's only who I could think of and not including her TV roles....
Also, I found out she would have worked with Joan Cusack three times, Raising Helen, My Sisters Keeper, Kit Kittredge: American Girl
I've heard about that movie as well
Sounds like it's going to be another big role for Abigail. From what I've read it's another pretty controversial storyline and she'll be working along more big actors and actresses. I hope Abigail gets a lot of recognition again
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Lennie1984
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DVD coming out 23rd November in the UK and 17th November in the US
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Lennie1984
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Great article, i do think Sofia is good from what i have seen of her and in her interviews, i hope she get alot of credit and ppl recognize her more now 
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Lennie1984
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Me too, i have seen most of Abi's work, i think she deserves a board - she's a young actress whose in Hollywood and worked with some of the big stars that most young actors/actresses can only dream of
Abigail's big at the moment ever since Little Miss Sunshine and she continues to build a steady career
Another movie of Abigail's i am looking forward to is this - http://www.fanforum.com/f28/rape-love-story-joyce-carol-oates-62899873/
Abigail's big at the moment ever since Little Miss Sunshine and she continues to build a steady career
Another movie of Abigail's i am looking forward to is this - http://www.fanforum.com/f28/rape-love-story-joyce-carol-oates-62899873/
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Lennie1984
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Abigail, Cameron and Sofia ET interview
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Lennie1984
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Cameron Diaz, Abigail Breslin and Sofia Vassilieva reflect on their emotional journey filming "My Sister's Keeper." - CNN Entertainment
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Lennie1984
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They just showed Jesse as a lonely drifter - they didnt show him doing drugs or drinking which i thought was good
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goldenraisin
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I still want to see this, but I might just wait and rent it now.
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funky_chick
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Yeah, reading the book sure makes you want to see the movie :lol:
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Lennie1984
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Wow, thats cool
Dont watch Medium but ppl really liked her in there
I was watching the ET preview for the movie when it came out, she is so soft-spoken
Dont watch Medium but ppl really liked her in there
I was watching the ET preview for the movie when it came out, she is so soft-spoken