this above all is a 1942 american romance film set in world war ii adapted from the eric knight novel of the same name , directed by anatole litvak , and starring tyrone power and joan fontaine as a couple from different social classes who fall in love in wartime england .

the supporting cast features thomas mitchell , nigel bruce , and gladys cooper .

this above all ( film )

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this is a film with an ambiguously subversive message , in spite of itself .
sometimes we need to be “above it all” and i’ve decided i’m going to try to spend a little more time there especially after experiencing this moment .
this above all is a wonderfully emotional romance set against wwii england . it examines the motives for patriotism and heroism both from the point of view . . .
, says ,
this above all : to thine own self be true ,
after which an air raid siren is heard and darkness descends on the room .
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keaobaka makanyane , left , and khomotso manyaka play best friends near johannesburg in the drama “life , above all . ”
“life , above all” is rated pg - 13 ( parents strongly cautioned ) . mob violence , rape and prostitution .
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this above all is tyrone power ' s best early picture . he proves he is a sensitive , first - rate actor . like power i was and am a frustrated veteran . . .
i ' m not a fan of films that make statements , i have always believed the greatest art is observational without passing judgement , and this above all is a prime example of a film that is more or less completely ruined by a clunky and misguided message .
just discovered this movie recently , i thought i had seen all tyrone power movies . this is one of his best yet little known and a real gem . so beautifully . . .
out of eric knight ' s singularly skillful war novel ,
this above all ,
twentieth century - fox and darryl f . zanuck have derived a taut and poignant war film , which arrived at the astor last evening for a meticulously restrained world premiere . view full article in timesmachine »
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oliver schmitz ' s
life , above all
sets out as a character - driven film about one of the nearly one million children orphaned by aids in south africa but its schematic structure oversimplifies the drama , despite an interesting , mostly debut cast .
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life , above all , a well - intentioned drama about the impact of hiv - aids in south africa , is the kind of film one wants to praise to the skies . with an all - black cast speaking in a subtitled local dialect , the movie is admirably lacking in pale - skinned film stars deploying their granite jaws to save the natives from themselves , a fantasy of white rescue that continues to plague most hollywood films about the african subcontinent .
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appearing in this film are no fewer than twenty performers who appeared in at least one of the sherlock holmes movies with basil rathbone and nigel bruce , including nigel bruce who played ramsbottom .
glenn close , from left , gemma arterton , paddy considine and fisayo akinade in the film
the girl with all the gifts .
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by directly dealing with the poisonous climate of rumor and gossip , the film takes a stand . but in nations where aids has been demystified ,
life , above all
will play strongly as pure human drama , and of two women , one promptly and one belatedly , rising courageously to a challenge .
movie review - ' life , above all ' - a ' life ' where hiv and ignorance are twin epidemics a village girl sets out on a journey to find her infected mother in oliver schmitz ' s heavy - handed melodrama . but with inadequately fleshed - out characters and an incomplete depiction of societal struggles against hiv , life , above all fails in its effort to shed light on a serious issue .
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marc webb will direct and nick hornby is scripting this above all , based on the true - life story of megan phelps - roper , a former member of the westboro baptist church whose grandfather founded the group known for its hate speak and vicious protests . the film is being adapted from an article written by adrian chen for condé nast’s the new yorker and from phelps - roper’s soon - to - be - published memoir .
actually , every side of town in “life , above all” is the wrong one ; the creaky homes are caked with dust and the residents all look perpetually unhappy . this may accurately represent chanda’s dreary point of view , but it also lends an unfortunate touristic air to the proceedings : watch chanda work through her hardships , feel good about it when she succeeds , and therefore feel good about yourself for paying attention .
rather than digging into the moral , ethical , scientific , or philosophical questions of these decisions or this contraption , the film mostly focuses on will , who is about as curious as a bag of a sawdust .
schmitz ends with a close - up of manyaka’s face and lets the music swell , while her eyes prove more affecting than any of the plot particulars . in those final seconds , “life , above all” finally comes alive .
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amid allegations of warholian - style literary hoaxes and identity scandals involving
jt leroy ,
the heart is deceitful above all things , adapted from
jt ' s
second novel , comes to dvd june 6 , 2006 .
in this film , tyrone power plays a conscientious objector , who deserts the british army because he doesn ' t believe in fighting to preserve his country ' s oppressive class structure . but power is no coward , and through the love of joan fontaine , he realizes that love of one ' s country supersedes all social outrage .
it was in that moment that i somehow transcended all of it , “it” being the issues going on externally in my life and at that moment . somehow i found myself above it all , and in a sense just didn’t care about any of it . it was going to be there for me this time and i was ok with that . after careful consideration of what the exposure “might” be i made my best guess and tripped the shutter .
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all above board is a horror comedy by the deranged madmen behind # drunkslikeus . when donna and mick arrange for a seance to be performed by the mysterious and seductive morgana the last thing they were expecting was for it to work too bloody well .
it seems that all of your books are based on auteur theory . do you think auteurism still holds its ground ?
geoff andrew wrote numerous books on cinema , including studies on krzysztof kieślowski’s three colours trilogy , on nicholas ray , and on american indie filmmakers . he is the film programmer for bfi southbank , london , and a programme advisor for the london film festival . he served on juries at cannes , istanbul , torino , sarajevo , and others , but this year he will judge tiff’s official competition .
with afi fest just a few weeks away , film - festival season is nearly over for the year . in addition to venice , telluride and toronto , another fest recently concluded : the 15th annual pyongyang international film festival , to which the new york times sent a correspondent . 60 movies from 21 countries comprised this year’s selection , with with 11 of them vying for the best torch award .
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yes . but i always believed that one should modify it , qualify it . because obviously a director is more of an author if he is also the writer . even then there are other people involved , there are producers , composers , actors , camera men , they all contribute to the film . the level of authorship is different from film to film and from director to director . if you have someone like cristi puiu , who writes and directs and produces his films , he has a lot of responsibility . so if we say if the film was good or bad it is mainly because of him , yet it’s not entirely because of him , there are other people , but…
oliver schmitz ' s
life , above all
earns the tears it inspires . the film is about deep human emotions , evoked with sympathy and love . it takes place entirely within a south african township near johannesburg , one with modest prosperity and well - tended homes . it centers on the 12 - year - old chanda , who takes on the responsibility of holding her family together after her baby sister dies .
a society woman joins the waafs and falls in love with an awol soldier . what this film boils down to is two hours of a strong woman being treated like garbage by a man who doesn ' t deserve her because reasons and stuff . if they wanted to cast someone to play the male lead , someone other than tyrone power would have been ideal . and poor joan fontaine tries her hardest , but can ' t seem to read off power ' s line readings which causes the chemistry to fizzle out almost immediately . and your head will ache by the end of the film after being beaten over the skull with
this above all : to thine own self be true .
it ' s like the screenwriter isn ' t even trying .
shakespeare is good , right ? here goes nothing !
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the narrative is built around the idea of showing bitter , struggling ptsd - afflicted , recent dunkirk survivor , lower class rebel , socialistish , military deserter tyrone power that he is wrong and we all need to rally around mother england and all she stands for .
jt leroy was elevated into national celebrity partly due to the overwhelming power of his unbelievable childhood experiences . following the recent accusations by new york magazine and the new york times , which revealed the lengths one woman was willing to go to in order to gain entrance to the literary and celebrity world , the heart is deceitful above all things reveals with colorful and uncompromising filmmaking , the back - story of one character who rocked the world of literature , fashion , music and film . . . without ever existing . this is the unfathomable story of
jt leroy .
that’s partly because the movie is dedicated to children orphaned by aids . ( in a 2010 annual report unicef puts the number of such south african orphans at an appalling 1 . 9 million . ) but the sense that this story doesn’t end when the movie does , and that what unfolds on screen flows into the world beyond , is due to how the director oliver schmitz has approached this tricky material . mr . schmitz first attracted notice in 1987 with “mapantsula , ” a gangster film that made the festival rounds . he went on to direct another gangster movie , a documentary and television projects , experience that seems to have served him well for “life , above all , ” which is at the intersection of fact and fiction .
the ballad of narayama
is a japanese film of great beauty and elegant artifice , telling a story of startling cruelty . what a space it opens…
wow . . it ' s a quite old movie but it ' s very beautiful ^ ^ i love its romantic story and the cast was pretty good . the film is based on a superb book : eric knight - this above all . it ' s a greatly composed philosophic - romantic story . i think if you liked the movie , you should read this book ! it ' s one of my favorite books , i simply love it ^ ^ you will be much poorer in feelings , if you don ' t read this book . . . and thank you for the quotes . . . i think the book contains some more . . and more memorable ^ ^ by the way , does anyone know where i could find it in english ? i ' ve been searching for it on the internet , but i ' ve found it nowhere . . . : (
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roger ebert was born on this day in 1942 , and died a little over five years ago . i owe a good part of my success…
i’m reluctant to label t he discovery as science fiction , even though netflix’s new drama has what sounds like a classic isaac asimov premise : a scientist has found irrefutable evidence that after death , the human spirit goes somewhere ; he’s just not sure where . like good science fiction , the film raises a handful of questions that could span seasons of television — can science really prove something like this ? should it ? — but the 110 - minute film largely ignores those questions in favor of melodramatic twists . for a film about science finding answers to life’s big questions , the discovery is surprisingly uninterested in how and why we learn the answers .
i’m left wondering what the discovery is . is it science fiction with no interest in science ? is it a spiritual romance with a perverse misunderstanding of faith and love ? or is it a movie that wanted to be all of the above , and in the end wound up being nothing ? perhaps what’s most frustrating about the discovery is that its 110 minutes can be better spent with a story that is doing similar things , just with a sense of grace and skill the film is lacking .
this send - up of ragtime song and dance begins in 1915 san francisco when society boy roger grant decides to pursue popular rather than serious music .
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based on the book by allan stratton , “life , above all” never falls apart , although it comes close with a finale that finds virtually the entire cast implausibly knocking on chandra’s doorstep . then again , chandra looks realistically surprised by the sudden onslaught of attention , to the extent that she not only transcends the movie , but saves it .
german - born director oliver schmitz takes on the subject of aids in south africa without kowtowing to western images of africa in this somewhat simplistic drama . twitter
unfortunately , most of the good stuff is early on , when the details of this post - outbreak world are more mysterious than explained : how can kids born with this mutated fungus think , feel and appear normal , when the infected adults look typically decayed and robotic ? melanie really likes miss justineau , but a teacher visit to her cell is problematic when the hunger pangs start . ( zombies in this world are given the snack - ad - friendly sobriquet
hungries .
)
how will it play ? sony pictures classics picked up the film several months ago and clearly has strong expectations for it . reviews have been decidedly mixed , but it stands a good chance of doing solid business due to the heartwarming hook , which should help with word - of - mouth . it opens this friday in new york and l . a .
the reason to care about “life , above all” doesn’t stem from its bleeding - heart plot , which constitutes a mild act of poorsploitation ( the same critique leveled at “slumdog millionaire” and other tales that use third - world backdrops for dramatic shorthand ) . the reason to care is newcomer khomotso manyaka , who nimbly shoulders a role that places her front and center in nearly every scene .
oliver schmitz ' s life , above all sets out as a character - driven film about one of the nearly one million children orphaned by aids in south africa but its schematic structure oversimplifies the drama , despite an interesting , mostly debut cast . it seems better suited for the small screen , which could work to give the film broader television sales . life starts with a quietly emotional blow : 12 - year - old chandra ( khomotso manyaka in a promising acting debut ) has to pick out a coffin for her infant sister . chandra lives with her mother ( lerato mvelase ) and younger half - siblings , the children of an alcoholic second husband who has abandoned them . the indomitable girl drops out of school since her mother is first too depressed then too sick to care for the family .
and maybe all of that would be fine , if this were a film about faith . lost’s finale was largely panned when it aired , but at least the episode committed to resolving the core’s big debate . the man of science and the man of faith reunite in a space disconnected from time , and along with the other characters , take a step into the glow of the afterlife . a show about , in part , the need of scientists to answer the questions of time and space , ends on a note that embraces the beauty and serenity of the unknowable .
although loaded with dramatic consequence , “ life , above all ” is slight . set in the outskirts of johannesburg , the movie follows a young girl faced with a broken family and communal rejection . her transition from pariah to fierce young adult energizes the story with emotional resonance , but director oliver schmitz pushes that effectiveness as far as it can go — and then keeps pushing , until it becomes shrill .
given that a staggering one - third of all south african women in their 20s are hiv - positive , it seems right to cast life , above all as a maternal melodrama , or even as a parable , yet schmitz , who mainly works in television , brings an unnecessarily heavy hand to his inherently incendiary material . for every turn of the dramatic screw , he brings on thunder and torrential rains . the script groans beneath a mass of symbolic winking and declamatory exposition that has the unfortunate effect of turning the villagers into credulous simpletons , ready to blow with any wind that carries them .
the film , set in and around a gloomy mansion - turned - research - facility , builds to harbor , will , and the audience seeing for themselves what the afterlife actually is . obviously everybody , viewers included , wants to know the answer , but the film isn’t prepared to deliver one in any satisfying fashion . the afterlife exists exclusively as a means to a narrative end , a tool to progress will’s personal growth .
as the film opens , chanda ( khomotso manyaka ) visits an undertaker to examine the inexpensive coffins on display . this is a task no 12 - year - old should ever have to endure . but her mother , lillian ( lerato mvelase ) , is immobilized by grief and illness and her father by drink . the next - door neighbor , mrs . tafa ( harriet manamela ) , helps her care for two younger siblings .
not included in the lineup this year were any movies from the united states of america or south korea , though countries like india , germany and france were represented . read the full new york times piece here .
her life , she said in a ted talk this year , “was framed as an epic spiritual battle between good and evil . the good was my church , and its members and the evil was everyone else . ”
set during a time when homosexuality was illegal in britain , this is a powerful and heartbreaking love story between two women of the 1940 ' s . their love is pushed to the boundaries and ultimately leads to tragedy .
stolid soaper miscasts ty as an english deserter , he exerts zero effort to seem british , and saddles joan fontaine with a lot of flag waving speeches which stop the film dead in it ' s tracks . professionally made with a good supporting cast but uninvolving .
“life , above all , ” a grave and quietly moving story about a south african girl of extraordinary character , does something that few painful dramas accomplish : it tells a tale of resilience without platitudes about the triumph of the human spirit or without false promises about an unclouded future . the battle fought by its 12 - year - old heroine , who struggles to save her family and best friend from prejudiced neighbors who often look like a mob , may be over when the movie comes to its stirring close , but there’s no end to the fight .
written and directed by asia argento ( scarlet diva , xxx , land of the dead ) and shot by eric alan edwards ( kids , my own private idaho ) the heart is deceitful above all things boasts a stunning cast including marilyn manson , peter fonda academy award® nominee , michael pitt , ( hedwig and the angry inch , last days ) , jeremy renner ( north country ) , john robinson ( elephant , lords of dogtown ) , jimmy bennett ( poseidon , polar express , daddy day care ) , and cole and dylan sprouse as jeremiah .
the film plays this as if it’s touching , like some unholy mishmash of t he t wilight zone and chicken soup for the soul . but it’s neither as intellectually fascinating as the former or emotionally soothing as the latter . its afterlife , painted as an opportunity , is actually a sisyphean hell . it’s also bizarre on the top , most obvious level . will’s father made the discovery that led to millions of suicides , and we’re supposed to believe will’s biggest regret is not saving a woman with whom he shared a short ferry ride ?
well , i don’t agree with that . if you have an interesting director , quite often his failures will be interesting . but i have friends that are auteurists and say : “this is an auteur . he cannot have bad films . ” that’s ridiculous .
rather than get bogged down in philosophical conversations , the discovery focuses on the domestic toll of its scientific progress . jason segel plays will , the estranged son of dr . harbor ( robert redford ) , the man who made the scientific breakthrough . when dr . harbor’s findings were made public , a global epidemic of suicides followed . feeling an acute responsibility for the millions of deaths , will returns to his father in hopes of convincing him to recant his life’s work . but dr . harbor , in pursuit of knowledge above all else , intends to go forward rather than backward .
the film ' s ending is improbably upbeat : magic realism , in a sense . it works as a deliverance . dennis foon ' s screenplay is based on the novel chanda ' s secrets by canadian writer allan stratton . it is a parable with biblical undertones , recalling cry , the beloved country .
chanda does what she can to care for her siblings , attend school and keep up appearances . her own good heart is demonstrated by her friendship with a schoolmate named esther ( keaobaka makanyane ) , who is forced into prostitution to earn the funds for survival . it goes unspoken between them that this could lead to aids for esther herself . the south african tragedy was that former president thabo mbeki persisted in puzzling denial about the causes and treatment of aids , so many who suffered and died of aids need not have . this contributed to a climate of ignorance and mystery surrounding the disease , which only increased its spread .
but time and again , lost argued with itself , not merely about the mysteries of the universe , but the tools that guide us through it . can science prove the assumptions of faith ? can faith answer questions science cannot ? are science and faith truly so different in their existential goals ? this was network tv !
when lillian exiles herself from the village , chanda sets off on a hero ' s journey to find her mother , helped and hindered by representational figures who sketch the plight of all such afflicted communities , yet barely qualify as characters . a female witch doctor brandishes spells and snakes . a drunken stepfather ( aubrey poolo ) proves of little use to anyone , least of all himself . chandra ' s loyal best friend , esther ( keaobaka makanyane ) , is drafted into child prostitution , while the village gossip mrs . tafa ( harriet manamela ) , a matriarch who is pivotal to the plot , fans the flames of hostility toward chanda ' s mother .
schmitz uses the wide - screen frame smartly , often to isolate chanda from her adversaries , occasionally to create dynamic intimacy between chanda and those she loves and wants to save . the director and his splendid cast assure that this tale about a strong little girl fighting to keep her family alive and together has both high art and a big heart , audience appeal and gut impact .
the fog crept in and softly blanketed the mountain tops below me , “amazing ! ” went through my mind as i prepared to still this moment ; but the light meter had died . i was literally in the dark and there was no way for me to calculate the proper exposure ! “you have to be kidding me ! ” , was the thought that went through my mind .
in large part , that ' s because a crucial player is strangely missing from this scenario . from the start , the spread of hiv - aids in south africa has been a political problem to its core . like many liberal whites who supported the black struggle to end apartheid , schmitz — who made the 1988 film mapantsula , about a petty thief who is radicalized in prison — seems unwilling to point the finger at a post - apartheid government that , under former president thabo mbeki , willfully discredited anti - retroviral drugs for years while advocating wacky dietary remedies and feeding tribal superstitions about the disease . mbeki ' s successor , jacob zuma , has promised better , but as someone who admitted at his own rape trial to having sex with an hiv - positive prostitute then showering to avoid infection , he ' s hardly a role model .
suspicion spreads in the neighborhood that the real cause of the family ' s problems is aids , although the word itself isn ' t said aloud until well into the film . its absence forms a fearful echo chamber — reflecting south africans ' own insistence , until recent years , of denying the reality of aids . a family linked to the disease by rumor or gossip is ostracized , which is why mrs . tafa facilitates lillian ' s
visit
to distant relatives .
as for harriet manamela as mrs . tafa , she has a central role . this township is far from the poorest in south africa . in the terms of that neighborhood , many households are middle class ; mrs . tafa embodies authority . she is fiercely proud of her son , a star athlete . she shares the general taboos about aids , but she is a good person , kind , with sympathy that she sometimes keeps concealed .
personally , i think the older i get the more i look for films that are honest about life . that doesn’t mean that they have to be realist films . but i don’t like to feel manipulated by the filmmaker . i like a film to be emotionally honest , to be truthful in the way that it depicts life and people . as i got older i liked genre films less . genre seems to be a limitation to me . the most interesting films are those that you can’t put into a genre .
and yet will’s turn is worse . when will tests the machine , we discover that the entire movie has been set in his afterlife . in fact , will has lived countless versions of this afterlife , trying again and again to repair it . his goal has been to save isla , who in another lifetime was just a stranger he briefly met on a ferry , and went on to drown herself . will has lived life after life with just the faintest sense that he must save her . and presumably every human is doing something similar .
i don’t really search , but i always welcome the discovery . one of the pleasures of being on a jury is having to watch a lot of new films . it can be very interesting . i was on a jury in istanbul a few years ago and i was asked if i wanted to be on the jury of the official competition or on that of the turkish competition . instantly i decided for the turkish one . we gave the prize to a young woman and she went on and did three feature films . all good films .
hbo’s the leftover s , which premieres its third and final season this month , and which shares one of lost ’s creators in damon lindelof , tells the story of humans left on earth when a small percentage of the population seems to have been raptured . it begins as a stunning mediation on grief , and spirals into a weird , funny , cosmically bizarre exploration of the unknowable . lindelof seems to have learned from lost , as leftovers isn’t so caught up in narrative contortions that it chokes itself to death , nor is it concerned with scientific justification .
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melanie , played by appealing newcomer sennia nanua , is ostensibly the titular figure in the british dystopian horror yarn
the girl with all the gifts .
to miss justineau , she ' s a figure to nurture , even shed a tear over . but to the soldiers in charge , melanie is evil personified . that ' s because , as we soon learn when sergeant parks ( paddy considine ) interrupts the lesson to spit on his forearm , hold it in front of one child ' s face and watch it transform from cherubic mug into a twisted visage of animal thirst , these aren ' t regular grade - schoolers .
the main criterion for winning said prize , according to the nyt : “how well they symbolized the festival’s official theme — ‘independence , peace and friendship’ — and whether they articulated the ideology of juche , or self - reliance , developed by the country’s founding father , kim il - sung . ” kim jong - il , the country’s dear leader who passed away five years ago , was a known cinephile , even going so far as to kidnap a south korean filmmaker and actress so that they could make movies for him ; this resulted in a bizarre , “godzilla” - like movie called “pulgasari” and was recently the subject of the documentary “the lovers and the despot . ”
the final act has writer carey unveiling his intriguing take on zombie - inspired extinction , triggered by the discovery of the mutation ' s next evolutionary stage , and melanie finding a group of feral children who , unlike her , have had no contact with cultivating humans . as it lopes toward its ending , however , it ' s still undistinguished by any remarkable direction or performance — save close ' s late bid for mad - doctor zest . one is left feeling that
the girl with all the gifts
is no better or worse than a couple of solid episodes of a sci - fi series , professionally engrossing but unlikely to prompt your own feeding reflexes for more zombie fare .
the discovery is , in short , like the worst parts of lost condensed to a feature film . lost was at its best when drawing from an internal debate that was , like the philosophical engine powering the the discovery , difficult to summarize and impossible to entirely unpack . “is it better , ” lost asked , “to tackle life’s big questions with rigorous science , or unflinching faith ? ” the existential tug - of - war , played out most clearly in the relationship between man of science jack and man of faith locke , lasted 121 episodes . lost was imperfect . it was overstuffed with metaphysics , fan service , and sudden random polar bears , and the show struggled most when it tried to answer the big questions of existence with truisms about good and evil , love and hate .
chanda’s silence is unnerving , as is the absence of tears , and while her calm conveys a preternatural strength of character it also suggests a lifetime of pain . no child , you think , should have to pick out her baby sister’s coffin . but she does , taking in the horror of the funeral home and its metal table without flinching and then pushing forward , still dry eyed , still determined , taking on life with an appealing ( and enviable ) toughness and grace that make this difficult story not just bearable but also absorbing . as the weight of the world bears down on her slender frame , she becomes the movie’s moral compass and its authentic wonder : the child who is forced to be an adult yet remains childlike enough to feel real .
the discovery , a film about the science of the afterlife , should at least be superficially concerned with science , faith , and the friction between them . is there a god ? what about heaven ? or hell ? but the discovery never aspires to be challenging , at least not beyond its children of men - like fascination with an apocalypse happening in slow motion . science in the discovery is like a deus ex machina on steroids , serving whatever purpose the plot needs it to . it gives people things to do while they reveal their personal dramas to each other . and so the work of a scientist is more like a series of fetch - quests . to test the afterlife machine , they need a body , so will and isla ( rooney mara ) steal a corpse ( and open up to one another ) . when that doesn’t work , dr . harbor volunteers ( and has a difficult conversation with his son ) . then will gives it a go ( and discovers the truth about himself ) .
best actress winner for mrs . miniver and best actor winner for yankee doodle dandy
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art direction : cedric gibbons , randall duell ; interior decoration : edwin b . willis , jack moore
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art direction ( color ) - art direction : jack otterson , alexander golitzen ; interior decoration : russell a . gausman , ira s . webb
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special effects - photographic effects by howard lydecker ; sound effects by daniel j . bloomberg
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actress in a supporting role - dame may whitty in
mrs . miniver
special effects - photographic effects by a . arnold gillespie , warren newcombe ; sound effects by douglas shearer
special effects - photographic effects by vernon l . walker ; sound effects by james g . stewart
special effects - photographic effects by ronald neame ; sound effects by c . c . stevens
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two weeks notice is a 2002 australian-american romantic comedy film starring hugh grant and sandra bullock .

the film was written and directed by marc lawrence , who had previously scripted two other box-office hits for bullock , miss congeniality and forces of nature .

although critical response was mixed , the film received a successful box office run , both in the united states and globally .

two weeks notice

the manager gave him two weeks’ notice . the manager gave him notice of two weeks .
there is a movie out called “two weeks notice” . shouldn’t this be “two week notice” ?
the title , if grammatically correct , would read two weeks ' notice , not two weeks notice . see more »
notice of two weeks = two weeks ' notice . the apostrophe is there to indicate possession = of , as wendy says .
if
notice of two weeks
is an alternative , then
two weeks ' notice
with an apostrophe is correct . genitive case .
neither ' two weeks notice ' nor ' two week notice ' are correct . it should be ' two weeks ' notice ' with the apostrophe signalling the omission of the word ' of ' rather than possession of anything .
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i won ' t bore you with additional references , but they all are in agreement :
two weeks notice
or
two week notice
is incorrect ;
two weeks ' notice
is correct . i now give you but a moment ' s notice that my comment is ending .
if you want to answer the questions ,
who starred in the movie two weeks notice ?
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this cast list of who was in two weeks notice includes both lead and minor roles . ( 10 items )
romantic comedy two weeks notice has taken the top spot in the uk box office chart in its first week .
two weeks notice cast list , listed alphabetically with photos when available . this list of two weeks notice actors includes any two weeks notice actresses and all other actors from the film . you can view additional information about each two weeks notice actor on this list , such as when and where they were born . to find out more about a particular actor or actress , click on their name and you ' ll be taken to page with even more details about their acting career . the cast members of two weeks notice have been in many other movies , so use this list as a starting point to find actors or actresses that you may not be familiar with .
circumstances that might require you to leave before giving two weeks’ notice include a personal emergency or unbearable ( or unsafe ) work conditions .
apostrophes are also criminally underused in the realm of movie posters . without the apostrophe , what does this movie title even mean ? it certainly doesn ' t mean
a notice of two weeks ,
which is what
two weeks ' notice
would mean .
but both are correct , because you could say
i gave him three weeks notice .
read below for information on why you should give two weeks’ notice , how to write a resignation email , and a sample email message .
two weeks ' notice - - here
notice
is a noun , a particular kind - - a noun that is derived from a verb , with a particular name - - a gerund .
give two weeks’ notice . your contract or company handbook may specify how much notice you need to give , but if not , two weeks is the standard . your employer needs time to process your departure , start looking for someone else , and plan for as smooth a transition as possible .
i am writing to announce my resignation from company name , effective two weeks from this date .
please accept this as my formal notice of resignation from xyz company . my last day will be september 14 , 20xx , two weeks from today .
' two weeks notice ' , starring sandra bullock and hugh grant , has topped the uk and ireland box office on its first weekend of release .
if you say
two week notice
you usually precede it with
a
or
my
. as is
i gave him a two - week notice .
meaning that
two - week
is the proper name for that kind of notice , which most people are familiar with as ample notice for quitting a job .
please let me know how i can be of service during my final two weeks at the company .
though two weeks notice has nothing new to add to the crowded genre , hugh grant and sandra bullock make the movie a pleasant , if predictable , sit .
however , two weeks’ notice is not legally required . if you have a union agreement or employment contract that states how much notice you have to give , definitely follow those rules . otherwise , do your best to give two weeks’ notice . this is a good way to maintain a positive relationship with your employer , which you may need should you ever need to ask them for a recommendation .
regarding the apostrophe after notice , think how you’d refer to a notice period that’s one day long : you’d say one day’s notice , with an apostrophe , not one day notice . so when you refer to a notice period that’s several days long , you say days’ , with the apostrophe .
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two weeks notice uses the ' opposites attract ' blueprint , with a dithering sandra bullock and a foppish hugh grant . as a producer , bullock makes a great actress , says joe queenan
i am writing to notify you that i am providing two weeks’ notice and will be resigning from my position as customer service representative with abcd company . my last day of employment will be january 15 .
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read below for tips on how to write a resignation letter in which you provide your employer with two weeks notice . then read sample resignation letters and a sample resignation email . use these samples as templates for your own letter .
can i , once and for all , put an end to this debacle ? if i was to give notice of one week to someone i would give them one week ' s notice , not one week notice . in that one statement i have proved that the apostrophe is there because of the possessive . if you are giving more than one week of notice it is still a possesive and an apostrophe is still required . the rule about plural possessives comes into play and an apostrophe is required after the
s
; two weeks ' notice . end of argument . don ' t listen to anyone who says differently ; they have a twisted , illogical , and muddled mind . one more time for the record ; two weeks ' notice . thank you and good night .
if you have decided to resign from your job , it is customary to provide your employer with two weeks notice . whatever your reason for leaving , two weeks gives an employer enough time to come up with plans to cover your absence . for example , an employer might need time to hire someone to fill the position , or they might need time to reassign your tasks to other employees .
two weeks notice is basically saved by the really good actors in it , especially grant and bullock . there are some laughs here and there , but there ' s nothing remarkable about the film so this is standard rom - com entry .
i have just been having a prolonged argument with people at work about whether it is correct to write
three weeks notice
or
three weeks ' notice
. my view is that , since a week cannot possess the notice and it is not an abbreviation with an absent letter , it is incorrect to use an apostrophe . the notice , is anything , is possessed by the person to whom it is given ( i . e . she gave him his notice ) . merge , purple dragon , i see that you agree with this . do you know of any printed source which would verify it ?
everywhere one looks , there are signs of ignorance and indifference . what about that film two weeks notice ? guaranteed to give sticklers a very nasty turn , that was – its posters slung along the sides of buses in letters four feet tall , with no apostrophe in sight . i remember , at the start of the two weeks notice publicity campaign in the spring of 2003 , emerging cheerfully from victoria station ( was i whistling ? ) and stopping dead in my tracks with my fingers in my mouth . where was the apostrophe ? surely there should be an apostrophe on that bus ? if it were “one month’s notice” there would be an apostrophe ( i reasoned ) ; yes , and if it were “one week’s notice” there would be an apostrophe . therefore “two weeks’ notice” requires an apostrophe ! buses that i should have caught ( the 73 ; two 38s ) sailed off up buckingham palace road while i communed thus at length with my inner stickler , unable to move or , indeed , regain any sense of perspective .
or , to avoid any possible confusion in punctuation :
a sentence of two years in prison
or
a two - year sentence of imprisonment .
she takes the job and is at his beck and call for over 18 months before she goes bananas and gives her two weeks notice . in that time , she must find a replacement and then she has to fight off her feelings of love for hugh .
what an interesting read . . . one that took me away from my project for an hour ' s time . ; - d first , to stephanie , it would actually be a
five - minute warning
for reasons i will point out below . to end the debate , if there continues to be any , in the example ,
in two weeks ' time , i will be resigning ,
the apostrophe is correct , if one could also say ,
in the time of two weeks , i will be resigning .
( ostensibly
of
denotes possession of time and
time
is ascribed to the 2 weeks , hence it acts as a plural possessive . ) if you are going to leave off the word
time ,
then the statement must revert to ,
in two weeks i will be resigning .
the only other correct way to say this would be to say ,
a two - week notice
in which case , as in
five - minute warning ,
the words ' two ' and ' week ' would be acting as an adjective modifying the word ' warning ' and would need to be hyphenated . such as in my 2 - year - old son , vs . my son is 2 years old . in the case of the original question about the title of the movie , using these criteria we have discussed here and throughout the thread ,
two weeks ' notice
would be correct , or , if anyone in hollywood had given it any serious thought ,
two - week notice .
now , i must go back to work as i do not want anyone giving me a two weeks ' notice of a two - week notice on this project . ; - d
the comedy stars sandra bullock and hugh grant , and marks the feature directorial debut of marc lawrence , who previously wrote bullock vehicles forces of nature and miss congeniality for her production company fortis films . two weeks notice scored a strong weekend average of $ 9 , 672 .
it does seem a bit odd i know . we use the possessive apostrophe with phrases that refer to ‘worth of time’ – so two weeks’ ( worth of ) notice , six months’ ( worth of ) time , three days’ ( worth of ) hike and so on .
in a perfect world , you’re going to politely give two weeks notice , suggest a reasonable amount of time during which you’ll stay to wrap up projects , and perhaps train a replacement . and your soon - to - be - ex - employer will embrace this plan joyfully .
yet , george is more interested in her decision - making regarding what are otherwise trivial matters in his life and eventually treats her like his personal assistant . she puts up with that for a rather long while , but eventually becomes fed up and announces her two weeks notice .
[ . . . ] more movies out there missing their punctuation , namely two weeks notice . ( though according to this ridiculously in - depth debate , that might not necessarily be true . and here’s where my brain starts to cave in and the [ . . . ]
i’ve got a question about the use of apostrophes in notice period provisions . i was rather surprised to see that section 8 . 96 of the mscd includes apostrophes after the number of days / weeks / months in your example provisions . shouldn’t such provisions simply refer to “days” , “weeks” or “months” without the apostrophe ? as i read it , including an apostrophe indicates a possessive ( i . e . , that day / week / month owns the notice period ) and i always thought the reference should simply be to the number of days / weeks / months ( i . e . , the “s” is there because the reference is typically to multiple days / weeks / months ) . do the days / weeks / months really own the notice period or am i thinking about this wrong ?
where reference is made to lynne truss ' s book
eats shoots and leaves : the zero tolerance approach to punctuation .
in which she cites the example of the film title
two weeks notice
as incorrectly punctuated because there should be an apostrophe after the
s
.
sorry , i meant to say
two years ' imprisonment
. . . oops !
the arguments of two years ' imprisonment or one day ' s leave are not pertinent to this case because both refer to continuous time frames . rather ,
two weeks notice
is more like saying ,
i will give you a five minute warning before your time is up
- - it is an single , instantaneous event ( at least one would hope you don ' t have to notify your boss of resignation continually for two weeks ) . arguably , i suppose our colloquial language of
five minute warning
should actually be
five minutes warning
. . .
it’s easy to get trunky once you’ve put in your two weeks’ notice at a job . but it’s important to dig in and finish strong . not only is your company still paying you , but you want to leave on a high note . first impressions get a lot of emphasis , but psychologists have found that people remember best both the first part of an experience and the last part– which is to say your final two weeks will constitute much of what your former colleagues remember about you .
as to why you use the possessive at all , i think it’s because five days’ notice is an alternative to notice of five days . that’s analogous to david’s hat being equivalent to the hat of david .
it is not a possessive , although the rule for plural possessives is still applied here .
notice
obviously does not belong to
two weeks .
the correct term is a
genitive
or more specifically to this case , it is a genitive of measure ( as achille marra indicated ) .
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i ' m not a mother tongue speaker but i ' m pretty sure that the correct form is ' two weeks ' notice ' , genitive of measure . if , as i believe , in this case ' notice ' is countable a possible alternative is ' a two week notice ' like ' a three day ticket ' or ' a stone merchant ' but the form in the title of the film doesn ' t make sense because it would be a compound with the first part - grammatically an adjective - treated as a noun : consider the difference between a twenty - year - old boy and a twenty years old .
apostrophes are used in phrases such as two days ' time and 12 years ' jail , where the time period ( two days ) modifies a noun ( time ) , but not in three weeks old or nine months pregnant , where the time period ( three weeks ) modifies an adjective ( old ) . you can test this by trying the singular : one day ' s time , but one month pregnant .
it’s important to provide your employer with two weeks’ notice if you can . this is a standard practice when resigning . it provides enough time for you to transition out of the office and to finish up any projects you can . it also gives your employer time to begin to hire ( and possibly train ) your replacement .
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merge was correct as , indeed , is the film title . it should read
two weeks notice
. the word ' weeks ' is a plural of the noun week , hence the terminal ' s ' . joachim : this is not the genitive case . it is not the notice of ( or belonging to ) the weeks in question ; thus no apostrophe is required . selkie : there is no necessity for the word ' of ' in this sentence . moreover , even if that was the case , an apostrophe , when used to indicate omission , signifies a missing letter ( or letters ) not a missing word . so , again , no apostrophe is required .
another thing just occurred to me in the case of the movie title . . . knowing how they think in hollywood , having lived in the world of movies for 25 years , this is likely rendered two week notice because they are simultaneously speaking of 2 things . . . and actually intend a pun . that is to say , that the 2 - week notice julia roberts gives hugh grant give his
2 weeks to notice
he loves her , before she is out of his life for good . so . . . given the nature of titles to stand for multiple things , i think what hollywood and the writers were wanting to leave you with , ultimately was his 2 weeks to notice her and say something to her . . . . wonder if anyone else out there would agree .
she writes for those who winced at the posters advertising the film two weeks notice and who felt real pain when they saw in print the name of the pop group hear ' say . its absurd apostrophe ,
hanging there in eternal meaninglessness
, was , truss says ,
a significant milestone on the road to punctuation anarchy
.
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three major new openers stormed the uk box office this week , led by warner bros ' romantic comedy two weeks notice . the strong combination of the three debutantes , a host of other new titles and continued strength of holdovers , such as catch me if you can , led the box office for the top 15 titles to a 10 % jump on last week .
there’s a certain etiquette involved when , for whatever reason , you decide to quit your job . it ' s best to tell your boss in person , if possible , that you are resigning from your job , and then follow up with a formal resignation letter . it is also best to give your employer at least two weeks notice’ when you are planning to leave .
without wishing to blow my own trumpet , people say i ' m an authority on english grammar and punctuation ; i ' ve been teaching little else for 46 years ! i can confirm that the above posting is absolutely and unequivocally correct ; it ' s
two weeks ' notice
. just apply the plural - possessive rule that , surely , every schoolchild ' s been taught .
state the date . the most important thing you need to say in your letter is when you will be leaving the company . you can either state the specific date you will leave , or say that you are leaving two weeks from the current date .
rather than being a matter of opinion , surely the ruling of the apostrophe in
two weeks ' notice
is officially documented somewhere ! i ' m keen to resolve this in my own mind . i ' ve always used an apostrophe in this case ( and argued the point many times ) and , if i ' m wrong , i ' d really like to know about it ! somebody , help !
sandra bullock plays a liberal social lawyer who works for the little guy and tries to preserve older building from being torn down . she ends up taking a job for george so that she has more access to funds for charitable causes , but ends up pretty much just being his personal assistant . that eventually causes her to give her two weeks notice , although she obviously has feelings for him . she gets drunk and passes out in one scene .
i presume
a sentence of two year ' s imprisonment
follows the same rule ? ? it is a frequent argument amongst lawyers .
while a week is a reference to a collection of days it is itself singular in nature . so if the number is singular ( ie . one ) then so is the word week , but if it ' s more than one , then you need to use the plural ( weeks ) . here the word week could easily be substituted for a word like apple - one apple , two apples , fifty apples , two hundred apples .
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in the real world , it often doesn’t play out quite so swimmingly . in particular , sometimes your boss will thank you for your work , ask you to kindly turn in your laptop , phone , and id badge , and then show you the door . before you resign , prepare ( mentally and logistically ) for the possibility that your two weeks - notice offer will be declined . have your boxes on standby , just in case you need to leave asap .
personally , i don’t let my behavior and values be dictated by others . i treat people with the respect i would wish to be treated with , regardless of whether they would reciprocate . my code isn’t based on tit for tat . even if your boss is a chump , and your company a hellhole , jumping ship without notice will often greatly add to the burdens of your fellow employees , who will have to scramble to cover your responsibilities and figure out how to tie up your loose ends . that’s your job , not theirs . so out of respect for your colleagues , if nothing else , put in your two weeks’ notice .
] hi , mr . wong , it ' s lucy kelson . i need one no . 13 , two no . 7 ' s . . .
i ' m not a linguist or grammatician - in fact i don ' t even know if there is such a word as grammatician - but i found the alt - usage - english argument convincing . their example was
one day ' s leave
which to me seems to be essentially the same grammatical issue as
two weeks ' notice
. actually it may be a better example because day is singular , so it becomes obvious that
one day leave
doesn ' t sound right .
so logically , in the plural it should be ' two weeks ' notice ' , ' in five minutes ' time ' , ' three miles ' walk for here ' . and this is what the guardian and economist style guides ( in the uk ) stipulate . it is also what any dictionary will show you in the examples . it is also the majority use in books . however , so many people leave off the apostrophe these days that i wonder if it is not becoming acceptable in informal writing .
but to the business in hand , if it was one week , we ' d need an apostrophe to be grammatical - ' one week ' s notice ' , ' in a minute ' s time ' , ' a mile ' s walk from here ' - i . e . notice of one week , the time of a minute , a walk of a mile .
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romantic comedies are the comfort food of the movies . there are nights when you don ' t feel like a chef who thinks he ' s more important than the food . when you feel like sliding into a booth at some formica joint where the waitress calls you
hon
and writes your order on a green and white guest check . walking into
two weeks notice
at the end of a hectic day , week , month and year , i wanted it to be a typical romantic comedy starring those two lovable people , sandra bullock and hugh grant . and it was . and some of the dialogue has a real zing to it . there were wicked little one - liners that slipped in under the radar and nudged the audience in the ribs .
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two weeks notice
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no , jappy , merge is only partially correct , because their solution fails to take into account the possessive . you must have the apostrophe after the word
weeks
for the phrase to be properly rendered .
two weeks notice is not a great romantic comedy . for many of us , romantic comedies are like peanut butter and jelly sandwiches , providing comfort food and simple consistency in a messy world ; we relax and enjoy the familiar experience , knowing that there will be no discomforting surprises or soul - searching involved . but in this movie , there are no real sparks between leads sandra bullock and hugh grant , some of the humor you can foresee ( and start wincing at ) long before it arrives , and , if you have seen the preview , you have a pretty good sense of where the movie is going .
the last three don ' t take apostrophes ; they are not possessives ( you can ' t say
late of two hours
) . wars whose title is their length do not need apostrophes :
structurally , the film ' s off - kilter . the start of the relationship is rushed through , while the supposedly crucial notice period feels increasingly directionless . which leaves the comic strand - and that , by and large , delivers .
most , however , will appreciate you staying on for a couple of weeks to help with the transition . this can be beneficial to you as well , offering you the opportunity demonstrate your professionalism and to leave the job on a positive note .
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the genitive element of measurement is satisfied by definition as well as that of possession insofaras the week ( or weeks ) possesses the ' worth ' even in the more commonly used case where the words ' worth of ' are absent but still implied .
don’t start any new projects during your last two weeks , but do all you can to tie up loose ends . fill in your colleagues about where any open projects stand , where you left off with xyz , and where they can find your documents and files . ask them how you can help them out in your transition . leave the company in as good a shape as possible . make them sad to see you go , and hoping you’ll cross paths again someday .
if i tell you
two weeks notice
is a romantic comedy and it stars sandra bullock and hugh grant , what do you already know , and what do you need to know ? you already know : that when they meet the first time , they don ' t like each other . that circumstances bring them together . that they get along fine , but are sometimes scared by that and back off a little . that they are falling in love without knowing it . that just when they ' re about to know it , circumstances force them apart . that they seem doomed to live separately , their love never realized . that circumstances bring them back together again . that they finally cave in and admit they ' re in love .
this isn ' t even another case of a missing hyphen . it ' s a case of one perfectly good word that has inexplicably been severed into two . it ' s
stepbrother ,
not
step brother ,
okay ?
two weeks notice is a charming romantic comedy . hugh grant and sandra bullock are perfect for each other . it ' s about this lawyer who fights for what she believes in . then she ' s hired by the very people she is fighting against . this is one of the funniest movies i have ever seen . the writing is wonderful . . . using lines like
you are the most selfish person on the planet ! ! !
now that ' s just silly , have you met everyone on the planet ?
also
do you know what i like even better than chess ?
pokemon ?
those are lines that have such unexpected answers you can ' t help but laugh ! best romantic comedy i ' ve seen in a long time ! !
offer assistance . offer to help the company during the two - week transition . you might offer to train a new employee , for example , or to write a description of your daily work responsibilities and / or unfinished projects for your successor .
when transcribing i wrote - will see the client back in two week ' s time - spell / grammar check did not indicate i change . . . this comes up often and i am still uncertain if this is / can be appropriate ?
george tells lucy that he didn ' t sleep with june and then says he wants to discuss the above bobcat pretzel thing ( she says the bobcat part is out , but that she can do the pretzel ) . the two then passionately kiss .
this is the story of lucy ( bullock ) who is a protestor and wants to keep a building in new york standing , but george wade ' s enterprise is going to knock it down . so she goes to wade himself ( grant ) and tells him her plans . he ends up making her his secretary person saying that she can cancel the destruction if she works for him . she does an excellent job , but gets tired of wade ' s petty grievences . so she decides to give her two weeks notice so she can leave . she starts to train a new secretary and finds that when she is flirting with him , she gets a little jealous . thus , the love triange starts . she ends up getting him in the end as you ' ve no doubt figured out already . very cute .
1 . because there is a noun after the word
months ,
it should be possessive . 2 . now , because there is more than one month involved ( two ) , you have a word that is both plural and possessive . 3 . so you write the complete plural ,
months .
4 . then you add an apostrophe :
two months ' vacation .
5 . you add no
s
after the apostrophe because you would not speak a second
s
sound out loud .
that’s always been the problem for sticklers , you see . the feeling of isolation . the feeling of nerdishness . one solitary obsessive , feebly armed with an apostrophe on a stick , will never have the nerve to demonstrate outside warner brothers on the issue of two weeks notice . but if enough people could pull together in a common cause , who knows what we might accomplish ? there are many obstacles to overcome here , not least our national characteristics of reserve ( it’s impolite to tell someone they’re wrong ) , apathy ( someone else will do it ) and outright cowardice ( is it worth being duffed up for the sake of a terminally ailing printer’s convention ? ) . but i have faith . i do have faith . and i also have an inner stickler that , having been unleashed , is now roaring , salivating and clawing the air in a quite alarming manner .
this is a twofer . there ' s no comma between
crazy
and
stupid
on the poster , though the two are clearly coordinating , not cumulative , conjunctions . yet in the official title of the movie , there are two commas - - after
crazy
and after
stupid .
normally we support commas in movie titles , but how did that comma after
stupid
slip in there ? if this is actually a list , why are two of the words adjectives while the last one is a noun , breaking the parallel structure of the list completely ? if
crazy , stupid
describes
love ,
why is there a comma between
stupid
and
love
? ? this movie title is a punctuation disaster no matter which way you slice it .
with an opening of $ 4 . 3m ( £2 . 6m ) from 414 sites - including previews of $ 296 , 184 ( £181 , 561 ) from 312 sites . it is warner ' s first chart topper since the two week , mid - november , reign of
this is one of my favorite movies . it has humor and romance and manages both with a logical sense of style that really makes the whole thing work . too often movies will try so hard to be great but they slip up in one or more categories . it ' s annoying to watch a movie that seems to be fantastic only to blow it at the very end by doing something ' cute ' but while trying to be cute it breaks the logical consistency it ' s strove for up to this point . two weeks notice doesn ' t do that at all . it ' s logical , funny and cute all the way through while at the same time maintaining the sexual tension between bullock and grant very well . there is one scene with bullock needing to use the restroom and using an rv that stretches the logic a bit but it doesn ' t go too far . all in all , great movie . great romantic comedy .
don’t get “trunky . ” when i was on a two - year mission for my church , once a missionary approached the last few months of his service , he’d often start to get “trunky” – the term we used for figuratively having one’s bags packed , and mentally starting to check out .
a deeply unscientific review of a sample of contracts filed on the sec’s edgar system in the last few days showed that of those contract that included the usage x days’ notice , about one third dispensed with the apostrophe . that being the case , i thought my response to this reader might be of broader interest . here it is :
parents need to know that this movie has a brief scene of potty humor , in addition to references to casual relationships and infidelity . two of the characters participate in a non - explicit game of strip chess . a woman ' s head gets stuck on a man ' s pants in a suggestive way .
keep the conversation concise and positive . when going to speak with your boss , get to the point . you don’t have to tiptoe around the issue and chit - chat for ten minutes first . you also don’t have get into the specifics of your new gig . it’s okay to just say , “it’s an offer i can’t refuse , and i’m giving my notice effective immediately . ”
this was before i found sandra bullock attractive . hugh grant is serviceably dapper . oddly enough , years after i saw it for the first time , i still remember the beginning and ending with lucy ordering enough chinese food to feed a small village to reveal it was only for one , then at the end , for two . aww .
how can you tell whether a word is possessive or plural ? a possessive acts like an adjective , whereas a plural is a noun ( nominal ) . that is , the possessive form of a noun will nearly always have another noun after it . thus , the following reasoning is used in punctuating the phrase
two months ' vacation
:
lucy kelson ( bullock ) is an attorney who wants to save the world . george wade ( grant ) is a hapless billionaire who needs an assistant to help him with everything from choosing ties to choosing the proper mattress . together these two collide , banter , lock horns and make us once again ask the age old question - do opposites really attract ?
even if you work in a small , casual office , solidify your intention to resign in writing . clarify your desired departure date , and then outline how you propose to use your final days or weeks . got a project to finish ? lay out how you’ll do that here . offering to train a replacement ? spell it out . need to make a couple of final customer visits ? state your intentions in this letter .
are you willing to stay longer if asked ? your boss may ask you to stay on a week or two longer for more help in wrapping things up . is this a possibility for you ? even if it is , is it something you’re willing to do ? again , make sure you think through this question beforehand , so you don’t get guilted into something in the moment .
it’s true that at a big corporation , once you put in your resignation , they may immediately and unceremoniously escort you out the door . it’s also true that many companies , although they ask you to give them early notice of your resignation , would not afford you the same privilege when giving you the boot . this leads some to adopt the attitude of , “f that ! i don’t owe them anything ! i’ll quit and walk away the same day . ”
impressed with lucy , he agrees not to destroy the center but on the condition that she works in his company as chief counsel . lucy accepts the deal but soon realizes that her boss is a selfish ungrateful irresponsible playboy . little did she know that she would have to aid her boss in daily chores that of choosing a tie to picking up stationery , and she literally becomes a personal assistant to george . george does not hesitate to call her up at odd hours of midnight for his minor needs and working like that for a year , lucy becomes indispensable for george . his need for her gets comically obsessive . but lucy is extremely distressed and a day arrives when she finally decides to give up the job . she gives a ' 2 weeks notice ' to george in a bid to quit office . but george asks her to find a replacement . lucy manages to find a replacement : a beautiful lawyer from harvard - june carter ( alicia witt ) .
sandra bullock , who produced the film , knew just what she was doing , and how to do it . hugh grant knew just what he was getting into . some critics will claim they play their
usual roles ,
but grant in particular finds a new note , a little more abrupt , a little more daffy , than usual . and they bring to the movie what it must have : two people who we want to see kissing each other , and amusing ways to frustrate us until , of course , they finally do .
while truss says that
despair gave this book its impetus
, she does not sound despairing either in print or in person . the title itself is a joke , about an irate panda who walks into a cafe , orders a sandwich , eats it , draws a gun and fires two shots into the air . the waiter finds the explanation for this erratic behaviour in a badly punctuated wildlife manual which the bear leaves behind :
panda . large black - and - white bear - like mammal , native to china . eats , shoots and leaves .
tell your boss before anyone else . no matter how much you trust your colleagues to keep a secret , don’t let it slip to them by the watercooler that you’re about to bounce . also be careful about announcing things on social media before you give notice – basically , don’t do it . these things invariably have a way of getting back to the corner office , and no boss wants to hear about your departure through the grapevine . and you definitely don’t want to hear him say , “i know , ” when you finally tell him . once you decide to quit , inform your immediate supervisor first , your co - workers second .
to be fair , many people who couldn’t punctuate their way out of a paper bag are still interested in the way punctuation can alter the sense of a string of words . it is the basis of all “i’m sorry , i’ll read that again” jokes . instead of “what would you with the king ? ” you can have someone say in marlowe’s edward ii , “what ? would you ? with the king ? ” the consequences of mispunctuation ( and re - punctuation ) have appealed to both great and little minds , and in the age of the fancy - that email a popular example is the comparison of two sentences :
punctuation has been defined many ways . some grammarians use the analogy of stitching : punctuation as the basting that holds the fabric of language in shape . another writer tells us that punctuation marks are the traffic signals of language : they tell us to slow down , notice this , take a detour , and stop . i have even seen a rather fanciful reference to the full stop and comma as “the invisible servants in fairy tales – the ones who bring glasses of water and pillows , not storms of weather or love” . but best of all , i think , is the simple advice given by the style book of a national newspaper : that punctuation is “a courtesy designed to help readers to understand a story without stumbling” .
i am at a loss for words to adequately express how much it means to my husband and me to know that there is an organization like focus that is rooting for us . just today i was reading psalm 37 and thinking about how your ministry provides ways to ' dwell in the land and enjoy safe pasture . ' we have two teenagers and an 8 - year - old in our household . . . plugged in has become a significant compass for our family . all three of our kids are dedicated to their walk with christ but they still encounter challenges . thanks for all of your research and persistence in helping us navigate through stormy waters .
the reason it’s worth standing up for punctuation is not that it’s an arbitrary system of notation known only to an over - sensitive elite who have attacks of the vapours when they see it misapplied . the reason to stand up for punctuation is that without it there is no reliable way of communicating meaning . punctuation herds words together , keeps others apart . punctuation directs you how to read , in the way musical notation directs a musician how to play . as we shall see in the chapter on commas , it was first used by greek dramatists two thousand years ago to guide actors between breathing points – thus leading to the modern explanation of why a cat is not a comma :
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