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Algren
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Joined: Tue Oct 19, 2004 9:31 pm Posts: 67043
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Shortcut to Happiness
Quote: Shortcut to Happiness is a 2007 film adaptation of the Stephen Vincent Benet classic 1936 short story "The Devil and Daniel Webster". It stars Alec Baldwin, Jennifer Love Hewitt, and Anthony Hopkins. Baldwin also directed the film. Shot in early 2001 in New York City, the film was plagued with financial difficulties and was shelved for several years. Yari Film Group eventually bought and released the film to theaters in 2007.
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Algren
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Joined: Tue Oct 19, 2004 9:31 pm Posts: 67043
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Re: Shortcut to Happiness
For the most part Shortcut to Happiness is a good film. It's a fun what-if, a poor man's Bedazzled, what have you. But I enjoyed it. Enjoyed seeing what this project turned out like, how Alec Baldwin directs, and I kind of just like the story and the passage-of-time nature of it all. The film comes across in such an 80s way. It's set within the publishing industry, in New York City, there's writers trying to make it big in the city, and with the daily grind montage music it all feels like its made in 1988. I appreciated that about it, but it also fails on several fronts. The opening credits is an embarrassing use of computer-generated imagery and the final "court case" is a complete fail. But apart from that it's not a bad film if you like Alec Baldwin, because Jennifer Love-Hewitt is hardly in it!, and don't go expecting her to be alluringly sexy.
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