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In this task, you must classify if a given review is positive/negative, indicating your answer as P or N.
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neophyte lawyer , legal situations , corrupt insurance company , synopsis : rudy baylor ( matt damon ) is an ethical kid fresh out of law school who must juggle three legal situations at the same time .
rudy 's girlfriend is attacked by her violent husband ; rudy 's elderly landlady wants to arrange her will so that her children are excluded , and ; the family of rudy 's friend with leukemia is suing the corrupt insurance company that would n't pay for a bone marrow transplant .
rudy is new to being a lawyer and is thoroughly outgunned , but luckily he is aided by a sleazy ambulance chaser ( danny devito ) who has failed the bar exam six times as well as by the kindly presiding judge ( danny glover ) .
jon voight plays leo
f .
drummond , the intimidating and arrogant leader of the all - powerful insurance company 's team of lawyers who will do anything to oppose justice .
will rudy defeat leo ?
will he enjoy being a lawyer ?
opinion :
the good news is that this movie has a happy ending , and it features a guy trying to do the right thing .
director francis ford coppola does this film a little differently than the stereotypical law movie .
in the typical lawyer movie there 's one big case and the movie focuses on solving it , and somewhere along the line surprise witnesses and motives turn up before the good guy wins ( after lots of gripping courtroom drama ) .
however , coppola 's movie is deliberately more low key . ' the rainmaker ' plays out like a personality sketch of young rudy as he gets emotionally involved with and tries to save various little quirky side characters .
in the background rudy 's voice narrates his feelings and makes half - cynical jokes about the legal profession in general .
two factors combine to make this movie less heavy than it can be .
first , rudy 's time is split juggling three cases , rather than concentrating on a single high - stakes case .
also , rudy 's use of voice narration in place of acting makes the film lose some of its dramatic edge .
the end result is an entertaining low key law movie where the good guys win , and rudy narrates his way into coming of age .
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P


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there 's a thin line between satire and controversy , and mike nichols ( the birdcage , wolf ) has directed a sharp and very honest look at a us presidential election .
based on the book written by " anonymous " ( actually former " newsweek " writer joe klein ) , john travolta plays governor jack stanton .
but he does n't actually play stanton .
he plays bill clinton ; just the same as emma thompson no doubt plays the first lady and billy bob thorton is the campaign manipulator james carville ( although the credits will of course say otherwise ) .
the film is taken from the perspective of henry burton ( adrian lester ) , a morally correct and somewhat hesitant new advisor to stanton .
he searches for justice and dignity in the ugliest possible situations , and whether it be keeping the history of his boss ' pants under wraps or contemplating digging up dirt on another politician , he approaches his work with a keen desire to skillfully serve his country and his fellow workers .
richard jemmons ( billy bob thorton ) and daisy green ( maura tierney ) team up with henry as the would - be president 's advisors , and hire lesbian veteran libby holden ( kathy bates ) as the campaign 's eccentric " tougher than dirt " incriminator .
together they face all sorts of sexual allegations , the irritatingly discourteous media and other witty politicians in the election race .
in its satire and controversy , primary colors is a similar film to wag the dog : they both are not afraid to wipe their noses in the nitty - gritty and take a bold look at something that will never has honesty as a virtue .
but whereas wag showed us how much affect a few people can have on the media , primary colors is much more concerned with fleshing out it 's characters , letting us understand what they want and why , and making us truly appreciate the humanity and rectitude that they graciously represent .
seeing john travolta play bill clinton
so confidently and justly is enough to make the film more than worth a look . and the rest of the cast also make
superb performances - adrian lester sharply portrays the intellect of henry whilst kathy bates is perfect as the robust and energetic libby holden .
at occasions , you ca n't help but feel that these terrific characters are going to waste .
there are long slabs of time where john travolta ( unquestionably the most interesting to watch ) is missed from the screen ; and since it is awkwardly structured as henry 's story we are often forced to watch scenes that perhaps are not so necessary to the central plot - or even the point of the film .
having said that , make no mistake - primary colors is always enjoyable to watch
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but frequently we have to ask ourselves - exactly what are we watching ?
most of the first half of its duration is a lightheaded look at melodramatic confrontations that seem so genuine we can not help but laugh , but the way primary colors chooses to finish tackles aspects that are very contrary , and almost unsuitable , to the rest of the film .
but as i mentioned before , there is a thin line between satire and controversy - and for the most part , primary colors delivers an entertaining indulgence of political matters combined with a far - from - overpowering look at winning the public 's opinion .
although at occasions the film may jump around a little too freely , focus is never lost on how important and vulnerable the subject matter really is .
thankfully , it is clear to make the distinction on what is entertaining movie cosmetics and what is a provocative documentation of something
so really it 's scary .
answer:
P


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a group of high school kids mix up with a group of hip - hop artists as a documentarian strives to discover why today 's youth seem attracted to black culture .
the review if black & white , the new film from writer / director james toback , is eventually remembered for only one thing , it will be the revelation that brooke shields , claudia schiffer ,
marla maples and mike tyson can act .
however , this partly improvised gem will be remembered for more than that .
black & white is a fascinating film
; it makes a statement about america 's youth and hip - hop culture without getting heavy - handed overly serious .
featuring a cast of known commodities ( ben stiller , robert downey jr . ) and hot newcomers ( singers bijou phillips ) , toback 's is a complex film worth seeing .
black & white has multiple storylines that are all related to each other , a la robert altman .
there is dean the basketball player ( allan houston ) who is asked to rig games for money by mark clear ( stiller ) in exchange for fifty grand a game .
this eventually spills over into the life of dean 's long - time friend rich ( power ) , a gangsta who controls 20 city blocks of harlem .
rich has to deal with the imminent opening of a white - owned club on his turf .
meanwhile , the young white girls who like to hang around with rich and his homies get talked into being in a documentary by sam donager ( shields ) and her gay husband terry ( downey jr . ) .
others who make appearances are william lee scott as the young white punk will , joe pantoliano as his district attorney father , jared leto as a high school teacher , marla maples as the mother of one of hip - hop crazed teens , claudia schiffer as dean 's girlfriend , and mike tyson as . . .
mike tyson .
the stories ebb and flow through the film , losing and gaining prominence over time .
friendships are lost , lovers are gained , and there is an occasional burst of violence .
originally rated nc-17 in the united states , black & white features a lot of sex between black gangstas and young white girls .
while the film was trimmed down to a tamer r rating , viewers will wonder what could be more explicit than what they are seeing .
the three - way sexual beginning of the film nicely warns viewers of what they are in for , and several audience members got up and left at that point .
the frequent sex is one of the film 's few flaws as the titillation is overdone and at times completely unrelated to anything else going on in the film .
to toback 's credit , the level of violence in black & white is almost nil .
these gangstas and hip - hop artists are given real problems and concerns , and only become gun - toting crazies when it benefits them to appear that way .
whenever a character finds himself on donager 's handheld digital camera , he starts spouting off righteous tirades on america and proclaims his independence , but not everyone has fully bought into the idea .
charlie ( phillips ) is full of bluster about why she loves hip - hop , but admits that " in ten years time , i 'll be way over this .
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these youth know they are going through a phase , and are simply enjoying it .
toback fills the spaces between these tirades with scenes that are lightweight and funny .
most of the humour comes from mike tyson , who provides the film 's comic relief without really trying .
he is given big words like vernacular to say , and as rich tries to discuss a particular street problem with tyson , he frequently has to ask him to use smaller words and explain himself better , playing on tyson 's image as a dimwit .
but tyson also gets the film 's scariest moment .
as he is mercilessly hit upon by the very gay terry , tyson is a marvel to watch as he fights to remain calm .
the scene is entirely improvised , with downey jr . being told to just keep at tyson until he gets a reaction .
the reaction he gets , being slapped and then choked is astonishing , as downey jr 's face turns a frightening shade of purple .
black & white is a film about hip - hop culture , and the film 's omnipresent hip - hop soundtrack strongly supports this .
but toback keeps things from becoming too serious ; by moving from story to story as quickly as he does , toback keeps us from becoming attached to any one character 's struggle .
thus black & white 's message about hip - hop becomes secondary to the film itself .
toback just wants us to have fun and maybe learn a little about hip - hop along the way .
and we do .
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P