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A Good Year

2006, Movie, PG-13, 118 mins

A Good Year: Review

Like pure corn liquor poured into a fancy wine bottle, Ridley Scott's lush adaptation of Peter Mayle's novel about a ruthless London commodities trader who finds his soul in Provence is broad, hackneyed and stultifyingly predictable. Appropriately named Max Skinner (Russell Crowe) is an investment expert, the kind of trader for whom making money is a blood sport to be enjoyed like a fine wine — gentlemen's agreements about ethics and market manipulation be damned. Max's life ... read more

A Good Year: Cast & Details

Year: 2006
Rated PG-13

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Cast
Russell Crowe: Max Skinner
Albert Finney: Uncle Henry
Marion Cotillard: Fanny Chenal
Abbie Cornish: Christie Roberts
Didier Bourdon: Francis Duflot
Tom Hollander: Charlie Willis

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A Good Year: TV Guide News

French Have No Bons Mots for Crowe's Good Year | Today's News: Our Take | 1/3/2007
How is Russell Crowe's Provence-set feature, A Good Year, playing in, well, Provence? Do I have to bleep out the word merde? Phrased differently, the French press have summarily derailed the film's depiction of their country, with one newspaper's critic blasting it as "appalling from start to finish," saddled by "clichés of an ochre Luberon made for a loaded Anglo-Saxon elite." I'm not 100 percent sure what that means, truth be told, and I studied French in high school — got a lot of D's, mind you — but I think it translates into "le film le sucks."More at Reuters. Le parapluie vert! read more
What Were the Cineplex's Biggest Bombs of '06? | Today's News: Our Take | 12/26/2006
Which film follies were not just dramatically anemic, but memorably cash-poor as well? In alphabetical order, as detailed by Variety:— All the King's Men ($7 million domestic gross versus a $55 million production budget, and despite an all-star cast)— Sharon Stone's Basic Instinct 2 ($5 million versus $70 mil)— Flushed Away ($61 mil versus $150 mil, though I cannot imagine it's any worse an animated film than Happy Feet, which my sons and I barely endured on Sunday afternoon. Subtle message that kids' film has.)— Flyboys ($13 mil versus $60 mil)— Hugh Jackman's The Fountain ($9 mil versus $53 mil)— Freedomland ($12 mil, despite a cast that included Samuel L. Jackson, Julianne Moore and Edie Falco)— Russell Crowe's A Good Year ($7 mil, hampered by misguided marketing)— Lady in the Water ($42 mil versus $75 mil and a slew of critical barbs aimed at M. Night Shyamalan)— Poseidon ($60 mil versus $160 mil)— The Wicker Man (a $23 mil take ... read more

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