http://ambival.net/movies/stealing-home Just another WordPress weblog Mon, 07 Jul 2008 15:27:58 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5.1 http://ambival.net/movies/stealing-home#comment-10790 Ambival.net » Movie Reviews » A Conspiracy of Love Tue, 29 May 2007 19:37:20 +0000 http://ambival.net/?p=711#comment-10790 [...] Once again the story bears at times weird similarities to Barrymore’s own life and there are a lot of standalone moments that for me called to mind the images I got in my head while reading her autobiography, it’s kind of weird. There’s something about the movie, too, which lifts it above a lot of other movies of its kind, and that’s the way that no matter how cheesy it gets (and it does, believe me, it does), it always feels like it actually happened somewhere and that the story means something to the people behind it. Maybe it was the baseball connection too, but in this way it reminded me of the Jodie Foster movie Stealing Home. It’s nothing special, but it is at times overwhelmingly cosy, and I can’t say too often how in love with Drew Barrymore I am right now. [...] [...] Once again the story bears at times weird similarities to Barrymore’s own life and there are a lot of standalone moments that for me called to mind the images I got in my head while reading her autobiography, it’s kind of weird. There’s something about the movie, too, which lifts it above a lot of other movies of its kind, and that’s the way that no matter how cheesy it gets (and it does, believe me, it does), it always feels like it actually happened somewhere and that the story means something to the people behind it. Maybe it was the baseball connection too, but in this way it reminded me of the Jodie Foster movie Stealing Home. It’s nothing special, but it is at times overwhelmingly cosy, and I can’t say too often how in love with Drew Barrymore I am right now. [...]

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