Alfonso Arau

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Picking Up The Pieces review by Savage from London, England

A complete mess, I'm afraid 7 January 2007
...The wonder is how director Alfonso Arau managed to collect such a superb cast together, given that Bill Wilson's screenplay is such a disaster. And even having assembled t... Read customer review

A Painted House (2003)
Starring: Arija Bareikis, Melinda Dillon, Robert Sean Leonard
Director: Alfonso Arau
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A murder leaves the town seething in gossip and suspicion. A beautiful young woman catches Luke's eye. A fatherless baby is born, and someone has begun painting the bare clapboards of the Chandler farmhouse, painstakingly bathing the run-down structure in gleaming white. A memorable adaptaion of ..read more »

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Picking Up The Pieces on DVD (2000)
Starring: Woody Allen, Lou Diamond Phillips, Lily Tomlin
Director: Alfonso Arau
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In a mad rage, a kosher butcher named Tex (Woody Allen) murders his adulterous wife (Sharon Stone), chops her body into pieces, and buries them in a Mexican desert. In time, the dead woman's hand surfaces and an old blind woman trips over it. The fall remarkably restores her sight, leading the ..read more »

42% from 344 members

Committed on DVD (2000)
Starring: Heather Graham, Casey Affleck, Luke Wilson
Director: Lisa Krueger
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Heather Graham plays a woman who is abandoned by her husband (Luke Wilson) when he goes on a "search for himself." Unable to accept this as an excuse for terminating their relationship, she begins her own search--a search for him. As she hits the road, she encounters a bizarre cast of characters ..read more »

46% from 506 members

A Walk In The Clouds on DVD (1995)
Starring: Keanu Reeves, Anthony Quinn, Giancarlo Giannini
Director: Alfonso Arau
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In this atmospheric romantic drama, Keanu Reeves plays Paul Sutton, who has just returned home from a stretch in the Army during World War II. Still reeling from the horrors of war, Paul wants to settle down and start a farm, but his wife Betty (Debra Messing), whom he met and impulsively married ..read more »

62% from 3,016 members

Like Water For Chocolate on DVD (1992)
Starring: Marco Leornadi, Lumi Cavazos
Director: Alfonso Arau
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Young Tita is forced to look after her sick mother; and only after her mother's death can she marry the man she loves... now, consigned to the kitchen, she discovers the power of food. Based on the novel by Laura Esquivel.

68% from 3,573 members

Romancing The Stone on DVD (1984)
Starring: Michael Douglas, Kathleen Turner, Danny De Vito
Director: Robert Zemeckis
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A romance writer sets off to Colombia to ransom her kidnapped sister, and soon finds herself in the middle of a dangerous adventure.

68% from 7,383 members

Used Cars on DVD (1980)
Starring: Kurt Russell, Gerrit Graham, Frank McRae
Director: Robert Zemeckis
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Jack Warden stars as Luke and Roy L. Fuchs--feuding used car-selling twin brothers who square off in an outrageous, all-out attempt to put each other out of business. Rudy Russo (Kurt Russell), Luke's star salesman, is doing all the lying and cheating that he can in the name of the cause, but only ..read more »

55% from 871 members

Posse (1975)
Starring: David Canary, Alfonso Arau, Beth Brickell
Director: Kirk Douglas
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A publicity-hungry U.S. Marshal doesn't just hunt down and capture fugitives, he makes sure a photographer is around to record his crime-fighting exploits and bolster his political aspirations. In POSSE the lawman soon discovers that fame may be fleeting when he sets his sights on his No. 1 target: ..read more »

50% from 12 members
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A Painted House - 3 stars
Picking Up The Pieces - 2.0 stars
Committed - 2.5 stars
A Walk In The Clouds - 3.0 stars
Like Water For Chocolate - 3.5 stars

Like Water For Chocolate - 3.5 stars
Romancing The Stone - 3.5 stars
A Walk In The Clouds - 3.0 stars
Used Cars - 3.0 stars
Committed - 2.5 stars

A Painted House - 3 stars
Posse - 2.5 stars
Picking Up The Pieces - 2.0 stars
Committed - 2.5 stars
Used Cars - 3.0 stars

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Lisa Krueger - 2 times - show films