![]() HOWARD JACOBSEN: We ask ourselves how ordinary Germans could stand idly.Luton Airport car park gutted by inferno is to be 'fully demolished' along with all vehicles on three floors that are 'unsalvageable'.Death on the ice: Was the skate blade that fatally slashed the throat of a Nottingham ice hockey star really just a freak accident?.Matthew Perry is buried in a private Los Angeles ceremony as his Friends co-stars are seen arriving across the street from the Warner Bros studios where they filmed the beloved sitcom.Reviewed at Empire Leicester Square, London, Dec. Clancy art director, Jason Baldwin Stewart set decorator, Kristin Bicksler costume designer, Wendy Chuck sound (Dolby Digital), Richard Shexnayder supervising sound editor, Robert Hein re-recording mixers, Robert Fernandez, Hein, Dave Paterson visual effects supervisors, Randall Balsmeyer, Mike Uguiccioni visual effects, Big Film Design, XY&Z Effects stunt coordinator, Wade Allen assistant director, Rich Cowan casting, Mandy Sherman, Sari Knight. Screenplay, Allan Loeb, Steven Pearl.Ĭamera (Technicolor, widescreen), Denis Lenoir editor, Michael Berenbaum, Wendy Greene Bricmont music, Stephen Trask music supervisor, Kathy Nelson production designer, Daniel B. Co-producers, Brian Frankish, Jillian Longnecker, Kathy Nelson, Jonathan Rubenstein. Executive producers, Ari Pinchot, Matthew Salloway, Randy Manis, Guy East, Chris Miller, Andy Mayson, Jodi Zuckerman Weiner, Rob Cowan. (International sales: Exclusive Media Group, Beverly Hills.) Produced by Steven Pearl, Allan Loeb, Tish Cyrus, Nigel Sinclair, Tobin Armbrust. (in U.K.) release of a Millennium Entertainment, Exclusive Media Group/Crystal City Entertainment presentation of a Scarlet Fire Entertainment production in association with Hope Town Entertainment. Her casting undermines what might have been a better-than-average slice of fluff.Ī Warner Bros. She’s painfully out of her depth here when it comes to the tricky business of playing a character who is herself playing a character, and falls back on grins and grimaces, flicking her hair extensions about to try and keep the aud’s attention. Denis Lenoir, clearly enjoying the Big Easy locations, is the cherry on top of a comely tech package.Ĭyrus is, by some distance, the film’s Achilles heel. The lush, color-saturated lensing by ace d.p. ![]() There’s even a mildly diverting bit of twistiness in the last act, efficiently helmed by Tom Vaughn, whose career has gone a little awry since his auspicious feature debut, “Starter for 10,” another campus-set pic. ![]() Somewhat diluting Molly/Brook’s outsider status, the script devises a role for Kelly Osborne as the protagonist’s cynical English roommate, but her quips fall flat, and her utility to the plot remains a mystery, given that the character never seems to leave her room.īy the standards of teen-focused comedies, the script (credited to Allan Loeb and Steven Pearl) isn’t half bad the early reels in particular include a few zingers that the pro supporting players, especially Piven and likable ingenues Mumford and Park, pull off with aplomb. And then it’s off to the ultra-girly sorority house where Alex is living, a bitchy gynocracy run by head mean girl Sasha ( Eloise Mumford), backed by a troika of dimwitted but decorative lieutenants (Megan Park, Morgan Calhoun and Alexis Knapp). Armon believes the criminals will plant a friendly-seeming imposter in Alex’s circle of friends in order to obtain some secret MacGuffin that Alex’s dad gave her for safekeeping.Īfter a mildly amusing makeover sequence in which Molly is restyled alongside sorority-appropriate lines, Armon gives her the plausibly preppy moniker of “Brook Stonebridge,” which, in one of the pic’s funnier lines, Molly describes as sounding more like a gated community than a name. First met stalking cheating husbands with a camera, young private investigator Molly Morris (Cyrus) is recruited by FBI agent Armon Ranford ( Jeremy Piven) for a special op: Go undercover as a sorority girl at a New Orleans college in order to protect Alex (Lauren McKnight), the daughter of a high-profile witness in an organized-crime case.
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