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"Hide Your Life Away" has been selected to be on display at Eyelevel Gallery Bookstore, 2063 Gottigen St., Halifax, NS as part of the show "Eyelevel Re-Shelving Initiative: Four" from Feb. 19 - March 28!! :)

Rated: Parental Guidance (Language May Offend)
Runs: 99 minutes
Director: Kirk Jones
Country: US
Released: 2009
Starring: Robert De Niro, Kate Beckinsale, Sam Rockwell, Drew Barrymore

“A holiday movie of rare sweetness; one likely to inspire a few calls home to Mom or Dad. And De Niro, at its center, gives a performance that's perfect in its simplicity.” - Moira Macdonald, Seattle Times. “This wistful, gently moving family drama stars Robert De Niro as Frank, a retired telephone company employee and widower, who as the movie opens is eagerly preparing for a reunion with his grown children at Thanksgiving.... When Frank's high-achieving kids fail to show, he decides to visit them, embarking on a cross-country journey of often brutal self-discovery. Kate Beckinsale, Sam Rockwell and Drew Barrymore deliver fine performances as Frank's busily self-involved children, but Everybody's Fine is De Niro's picture through and through... He turns in a subtle, poignant performance as a man who has become an alien in his own family. When he contemplates a wheeled suitcase with faint bemusement, he resembles nothing less than E.T.; he's a walking embodiment of vulnerability and loss. Everybody should see Everybody's Fine. But one piece of advice: Phone home first.” - Ann Hornaday, The Washington Post

Rated: Parental Guidance (Language May Offend)
Runs: 99 minutes
Director: Kirk Jones
Country: US
Released: 2009
Starring: Robert De Niro, Kate Beckinsale, Sam Rockwell, Drew Barrymore

“A holiday movie of rare sweetness; one likely to inspire a few calls home to Mom or Dad. And De Niro, at its center, gives a performance that's perfect in its simplicity.” - Moira Macdonald, Seattle Times. “This wistful, gently moving family drama stars Robert De Niro as Frank, a retired telephone company employee and widower, who as the movie opens is eagerly preparing for a reunion with his grown children at Thanksgiving.... When Frank's high-achieving kids fail to show, he decides to visit them, embarking on a cross-country journey of often brutal self-discovery. Kate Beckinsale, Sam Rockwell and Drew Barrymore deliver fine performances as Frank's busily self-involved children, but Everybody's Fine is De Niro's picture through and through... He turns in a subtle, poignant performance as a man who has become an alien in his own family. When he contemplates a wheeled suitcase with faint bemusement, he resembles nothing less than E.T.; he's a walking embodiment of vulnerability and loss. Everybody should see Everybody's Fine. But one piece of advice: Phone home first.” - Ann Hornaday, The Washington Post

Rated: Parental Guidance (Language May Offend)
Runs: 99 minutes
Director: Kirk Jones
Country: US
Released: 2009
Starring: Robert De Niro, Kate Beckinsale, Sam Rockwell, Drew Barrymore

“A holiday movie of rare sweetness; one likely to inspire a few calls home to Mom or Dad. And De Niro, at its center, gives a performance that's perfect in its simplicity.” - Moira Macdonald, Seattle Times. “This wistful, gently moving family drama stars Robert De Niro as Frank, a retired telephone company employee and widower, who as the movie opens is eagerly preparing for a reunion with his grown children at Thanksgiving.... When Frank's high-achieving kids fail to show, he decides to visit them, embarking on a cross-country journey of often brutal self-discovery. Kate Beckinsale, Sam Rockwell and Drew Barrymore deliver fine performances as Frank's busily self-involved children, but Everybody's Fine is De Niro's picture through and through... He turns in a subtle, poignant performance as a man who has become an alien in his own family. When he contemplates a wheeled suitcase with faint bemusement, he resembles nothing less than E.T.; he's a walking embodiment of vulnerability and loss. Everybody should see Everybody's Fine. But one piece of advice: Phone home first.” - Ann Hornaday, The Washington Post

Rated: 14 Accompaniment (Not Recommended For Young Children)
Runs: 122 minutes
Director: Terry Gilliam
Country: UK/Canada
Released: 2009
Starring: Heath Ledger, Johnny Depp, Colin Farrell, Jude Law, Christopher Plummer, Tom Waits
Awards: Academy Award nominations for Art Direction & Costume Design.

“The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus springs with such dizzying, dazzling force from the mind of its maker that it might as well have been titled The Imagination of Terry Gilliam. Shot through with a bold, extravagant generosity of spirit, this journey behind the literal and figurative looking glass marks a gratifying return to form for Gilliam... And, as Heath Ledger's last film, it arrives with particular poignancy, with Ledger managing to disappear into his role, while imbuing it with his singular presence and energy. The title character is an ancient street performer who oversees a ragtag band of buskers who ply the streets of contemporary London, setting up their traveling stage across from pubs and shops to attract onlookers...Having been lured on stage by Parnassus's comely daughter Valentina and a young emcee named Anton, the unsuspecting mark comes under the mind control of the preternaturally still Parnassus, who sits like a Buddha draped in mystical robes and inscrutable silence. But beware those who venture through the mirror behind him; they will find their imaginations in a cosmic moral tug of war between Parnassus and the malign Mr. Nick, the kind of devil you can't help but dance and make deals with... Gilliam infuses the story with a swirling, plunging kind of visual excitement... to create a world of meticulously curated imagery and textures. Most important, Gilliam has cast actors who can hold their own against his potentially overpowering visual imagination... The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus is an extravagant, tattered valentine - a work of gimlet-eyed whimsy, smudge-pot elegance and improbably deep feeling.” - Ann Hornaday, The Washington Post

Rated: Parental Guidance (Language May Offend)
Runs: 99 minutes
Director: Kirk Jones
Country: US
Released: 2009
Starring: Robert De Niro, Kate Beckinsale, Sam Rockwell, Drew Barrymore

“A holiday movie of rare sweetness; one likely to inspire a few calls home to Mom or Dad. And De Niro, at its center, gives a performance that's perfect in its simplicity.” - Moira Macdonald, Seattle Times. “This wistful, gently moving family drama stars Robert De Niro as Frank, a retired telephone company employee and widower, who as the movie opens is eagerly preparing for a reunion with his grown children at Thanksgiving.... When Frank's high-achieving kids fail to show, he decides to visit them, embarking on a cross-country journey of often brutal self-discovery. Kate Beckinsale, Sam Rockwell and Drew Barrymore deliver fine performances as Frank's busily self-involved children, but Everybody's Fine is De Niro's picture through and through... He turns in a subtle, poignant performance as a man who has become an alien in his own family. When he contemplates a wheeled suitcase with faint bemusement, he resembles nothing less than E.T.; he's a walking embodiment of vulnerability and loss. Everybody should see Everybody's Fine. But one piece of advice: Phone home first.” - Ann Hornaday, The Washington Post