movies

[Melissa T Smith]

I, too, have lost the thread, but wanted to note that Tom Cruise breaks out of Liubianka in Mission Impossible IV: Ghost Protocol.

Melissa Smith
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I think someone may have already mentioned Американская дочь, so apologies if this is a repeat, but I just discovered it on YouTube and tried watching it - I could only get through the first few minutes because the acting and dialogue were so terrible. A young girl (wearing eye shadow and lipstick in bed) had been brought from Russia to the U.S. by her mother, who had married a rich guy who lived in a kind of mini-White House with a helicopter parked outside on the lawn and a monosyllabic chauffeur to drive the girl around. The mother had told the daughter that her father was dead. In fact the dad had come over to the U.S. and was sitting in a cab with a friend watching the daughter. The dad and his cab driver friend get in a discussion about women's rights in the U.S., and the cab driver (also Russian) refers to the Bobbitt case and claims that Lorena could sue John even though she cut off his penis. The dad is too nervous to call the daughter, so he asks his friend to call the house and pretend to be one of her classmates, which he does, in his old chain-smoking man's voice. I couldn't stand any more. It may be a classic of bad cinema.

Sarah Hurst
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