Tower Heist

Tower Heist (2011)
Starring: Ben Stiller, Eddie Murphy, and Casey Affleck
Directed by: Brett Ratner
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Grade: A

This movie was quite funny. It could have done without a lot of the raunchy humor, it was still good. Josh Kovacks (Stiller) is the manager of the Tower, an upscale apartment building where an apartment costs millions of dollars a month. Josh is great at his job, making sure all of the tenants are happy and all of his workers are doing their jobs. What he doesn't know is that the Tower's richest tenant, Arthur Shaw (Alan Alda), an investment banker, has been arrested for fraud. At first, Josh thinks this must be a mistake. He soon finds out, however, that, when Shaw said he was going to invest all of the worker's paychecks, he really just stole all of the money. After Josh is fired, he decides that he needs to get the money back. Josh, along with a former tenant named Mr. Fitzhugh (Matthew Broderick), the Tower's former concierge Charlie (Affleck), a new worker to the Tower named Enrique Dev’Reaux (Michael Pena), a maid named Odessa (Gabourey Sidibe), and a petty thief from Josh's past, Slide (Murphy). As the team plans the difficult heist, they also have to make sure that suspicious FBI agent Claire Denham (Tea Leoni) doesn't catch them in the act.

Movie Review: Ferris Bueller's Day Off

Ferris Bueller's Day Off (1986)
Starring: Matthew Broderick and Alan Ruck
Chracters: Ferris Bueller and Cameron Frye
Directed by: John Hughes
Tagline: While the rest of us were just thinking about it...Ferris borrowed a Ferrari and did it...all in a day.
Grade: A+

I love 80's movies...they're all awesome, but the best of the best are John Hughes films. He was one of the best directors of teen movies. It was like he truly understood what hard things went on in teen lives. He didn't just portray them as stupid, flighty girls or cocky guys...he actually gave them personalities...awesome ones at that. Between The Breakfast Club, Pretty in Pink, Sixteen Candles, and this movie, there are some of the best characters in any movie...ever. And they're all teenagers...which is a major score for us. This great movie is about a teen called Ferris, who is an expert at ditching school. It's a perfect day outside, so he decides to ditch another day of school (this makes his ninth "sick"day). So, he decides to make this one count. He calls his friend Cameron, who's always sick, and they get Ferris' girlfriend Sloane (Mia Sara) out of school. Then they go on a spree across the city in Cameron's dad's Ferrari. They even get in a parade. Ferris is the coolest, most smooth talking person ever. And John Hughes did a really cool thing where he had Ferris talk to the camera, as if telling advice to the people watching. Overall, a really fun, really cool 80's teen movie from the master himself.
-MOT

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