Posted on 12/18/2004 4:43:46 AM PST by Kaslin
GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. — For more than one year, an inexpensive, independently produced, PG-rated movie with a simple story about the importance of love and family has packed audiences of all ages into a single theater here. "People show up every day for 'Uncle Nino,' " said Ron Van Timmeren, an executive vice president for Celebration Cinema, the regional, family owned movie chain that began running the film at one of its multiplexes on Dec. 5, 2003.
Now, the local phenomenon has landed a nationwide distributor — the same one that helped put out "My Big Fat Greek Wedding" and "The Passion of the Christ" — and starting in February the rest of the country will finally get a chance to see what the fuss over "Uncle Nino" is about.
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It sounds like a sweet film...I hope it makes to Jax.
It takes Oliver Stone and $125 million to make a movie sell.
LOL. He's taken to describing himself as an "honest historian" in recent interviews. And us American rednecks don't care about the "Classics."
JFK? Historian?
It sure does, and it's about time
Or as reported in Variety:
"FAM FLIX PAX IN STIX"
Stix nix Stone Pix?
Reminder bump! ;-)
They're tired of thespian tricks!
Another film to kick the Hollywood elite where it hurts. I already am loving it!
Well, gawrsh. Yew know us rubes. We ain't got no so-phisticated taste in movin' pitchers. We likes our innertainment wholesome and positive cuz we's jist a buncha hicks what voted fer George Bush and drive pickups 'n' such. Wonder what it's like havin' a full, rich life like all those happy Hollywood fokes do ... yew know, the ones what's always divorcin' each other 'n' gettin' caught with dope 'n' checkin' inta rehab clinics 'n' suchlike?
It's a wonderful life, isn't it?
Ah shure wish Ah could be happy like that. Or those New York fokes what git ta live in closet-sized compartments what cost more'n Ah make in a lifetime and smell like cat piss. Ah hate livin' here in flyover country with elbow room an' fokes what don't step on yer face if ya happen ta slip on the curb. Sure wish Ah could be one o' them so-phisticated fokes.
Put in on video, I'd like to see "Uncle Nino" now.
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