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cinematical.com - 1/22/2008

Sundance Review: The Great Buck Howard

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One might not expect a sweet, funny and warm-hearted crowd-pleaser from the man who wrote movies like Sexual Roulette , Sonic Impact , and Venomous , but I guess filmmaker Sean McGinly has spent the last eleven years churning out schlock flicks just so he could get to something good. And I'm very pleased to report that his newest offering, a smoothly, strongly appealing comedy called The ...

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Sundance. The Great Buck Howard.
GreenCine Daily — ... has spent the last eleven years churning out schlock flicks just so he could get to something good," writes Scott Weinberg. "And I'm very pleased to report that his newest offering, a smoothly, strongly appealing comedy called ...

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Right Cinema — ... John Malkovich is “The Great Buck Howard”, but the great acting doesn’t stop there. Father and son Tom and Colin Hanks also star in this film about a law school dropout who takes a job as the personal assistant of the eccentric illusionist. When his father finds out, he tries to get him to quit, but Buck has one more trick up his sleeve that can’t be missed. Emily Blunt also appears as Buck’s PR talent. From the sounds of it, the movie is a hit. A heartfelt look at old-school entertainment, the film is called “a smoothly, strongly ...