jukedout23 Reviews

Playing by Heart (1998)

A huge cast that fills a dramatic and moving movie

[9 January 2004]

A&E showed this movie and I was flipping around through it the first couple of times because I saw Angelina Jolie. I'm a huge fan of hers and I would only see her parts. When it came on at 1 o'clock in the morning, I decided to watch it all the way through.

After seeing all of the subplots with the characters like Joan and Keenan, Merideth and Brock, Gill and Gracie, Hannah and Mark, and the rest of the cast. The movie's main focus is solely on Joan, Keenan, Hannah and Mark. The rest of the cast seems to just fill in the gaps to what those previously mentioned characters do not fill.

The story was great though because you really feel for the characters. You can also see a lot of Angelina's personality in Joan and you're screaming to have Ryan Phillipe's character to just let go and fall in love with her. In the end though, everything is wrappped up in a neat little package.

Pacific Palisades (1997)

A Wonderful Primetime Soap That Got the Ax

[7 December 2003]

This show started out with a boom and my family and I would watch it all the time. It premiered in Spring of 1997 with plot twists and very likable characters. It starred Michelle Stafford (Phylis, Y&R) and Finola Hughes (Anne, AMC) plus a great cast as well.

The first episode started with a lawyer who was in an exploding car accident. Then the show introduced Robert who was the owner of a realator company and was having an affair with his secretary Jessica while still being married to Kate who all the while adored Jess. Across the street, Cory was going out with Ashley and worked as a plastic surgeon but the nice girl was having doubts if she could trust her man. Next door were small towners, JoAnna and Nick Hadley with sister (later revealed to be JoAnna's daughter) Rachel. Next door to them were the schemers like Matt and the sexy Australian seductress Laura (ex-Neighbours star, Kimberly Davies).

After a five episode stint, Pacific Palisades returned during the summer and new characters were brought onto the canvas. John who was a part of Laura's past and her mother Christina (Joan Collins) tried to sizzle things in California. In one episode Christina and Laura get into a cat fight that lands them both in a pool.

Other plots included the on again off again relationship between Kate and Robbert. Would they divorce or stay together? Jessica and Matt became an item but Robert still had feelings for Jessica so Matt tried to get them as far apart as they could. Matt even turned out to be the one who made the lawyer in the beginning kill himself as well as set the local mall to concave almost killing Rachel just to make it look like Robert did it.

As previously mentioned JoAnna turns out to be Rachel's mother so as revenge she tries to seduce Nick and also gets kidnapped by someone who she believes to be her father after being lured by someone online. Which had taken JoAnna, Nick, and Michael (Rachel's crush) to save her before it was too late.

Laura tries getting revenge on John who turns out to be married so she decides to break them up by seducing John purposely for his wife's eyes. All the while, Christina tries being Queen Bee in Laura's realator firm only to be outdone by her own daughter.

Matt becomes a gambler and Beth gets a visitor from her past so they have to fight to stay together.

And that was about it. There were thirteen episodes total and the last episode wrapped up everything:

JoAnna, Rachel, and Nick moved out of Pacific Palisades and Rachel says good bye to Michael.

Jessica left the company after telling Kate that she would never work for her and continued her relationship with Matt.

Robert and Kate got back together.

Ashely and Matt stay a couple.

John and his wife moved away leaving Laura and Christina to get what they always wanted, rich men.

So in the end everyone got what they deserved, except for the fans, who get the shaft because this was such a good show that they should have never taken it off the air!

Phone Booth (2002)

Thirllride

[13 April 2003]

I just got home from seeing this movie and I wasn't dissapointed. The acting was good and there were ton of humourous parts like the main prostitute. I'm not going to give away any plot detail because it's simple there's a man who answers a phone at a phone booth and he can't hang up or he'll die. There's more to it then that, and that's what made it so exciting. You can also see that Collin Pharrel's peronality shows through his character of Stu because Collin likes to swear a lot and so does Stu. If you do not want a waste of eight dollars or maybe twenty whenever it comes out to DVD then go and see Phone Booth.

Panic Room (2002)

Very Boring Thriller

[10 April 2003]

I love Jodie Foster especially in the move Contact and I remember seeing this movie on Easter of 2002. Some friends and I thought that it would be scary and suspenseful but it was not. The plot was interesting and I laughed a few times at some of the lines but it was so slow. It was like you would wait and wait and wait for something exciting to happen and when it did, it was like why did that just happen?

Other people in the theater seemed to think so as well. Eight dollars was wasted but if I would want to then maybe I could buy the DVD version and watch it with my girl friend because then I really wouldn't be watching it!

Savannah (1996–1997)

Wonderful Primetime Drama

[25 March 2003]

I watched this show whenever I was eleven years old and I have to agree with the other comments by saying that each episode always made you want to tune in to find out what would happen next. I have also noticed that there are some references to "Savannah" in other re-runs of WB shows during that time like "Sister, Sister" and "Unhappily Ever After."

I only got to see the first season, but I think that the second season sounded much better. The cable company at the time showed the WB only through WGN-Chicago, and they took it off right after a cliffhanger when Robyn Lively's character (Reese, I think) blacked out on her own wedding night and went into the wrong hotel room. Drama today is too serious, why can't we have more shows like this show? If you also liked this show then you might have liked "Pacific Palisades" as well, but they never last.

Savannah (1996–1997)

Great Show

[24 March 2003]

I watched Savannah when I was eleven years old and I loved it. I was checking out the other comments and I have to agree that the show always made you want to tune in to see what would happen next. I've also noticed that other WB shows use reference to it like if you watch re-run episodes of "Sister, Sister" or "Unhapily Ever After."

Why was it cancelled though? The plot was great, the writing was excellent, the acting wasn't cheezy, and the babes were hot as hell. Especially Jamie Lunar who I believe originally tried out for Robyn Lively's part but instead got cast as the main vixen. If you like this show you would have liked "Pacific Palasades" as well. It's just sad taht "Savannah" will never return. It left me with a cliff hanger from the first season. At the time you could only see the WB on WGN-Chicago, but the cable company took away WGN so I was left in the dark to know what happened with Robyn Lively's character as she blacked out from a drug addiction and was going to skip out on her own wedding night. Why are there no shows like this on today? Everything is too serious!

As Good as Dead (1995 TV Movie)

Pretty Suspenseful

[15 December 2002]

I got home from work and was about to go to bed until I turned on the television. After flipping through the channels I thought that I saw Traci Lords and that woman from "Wings" in a movie so I decided to watch it. The concept was really amazing, a woman who commits insurance fraud ends up paying for it by supposidly dying and has to remake her life into something that she wanted to be at the beginning of the movie. I know that it was a chick flick and I should've went past the Lifetime channel but this movie had Traci Lords who really knows how to act, and I was also on the edge of my seat to know what really happened. If you want to see hot girls in a suspenseful thriller, you should watch this movie.