Good Fortune

"Swiss Army Man" is a movie that was released in 2016. The movie tells the story of Hank, a man stranded on a deserted island, who finds a seemingly lifeless body washed up on the shore. Hank soon discovers that the body, which he names Manny, has some unusual abilities, such as the ability to fart with great force and accuracy, and the ability to produce fresh water when fed with various liquids. Hank uses Manny's abilities to try and find his way back to civilization.

Dr. Alfred Jones is a self described suburban skeptic who just happens to have a vast knowledge about fish, especially salmon. So when a Middle East Sheik who is passionate about fly fishing for salmon brings up his dream of making that dream come true in the dry deserts of the Middle East, he goes to Jones for help. What sounds like an outlandish request is actually doable with dams and lots of financial backing (which the Sheik definitely has in abundance). Director Lasse Hallström (Water for Chocolat, The Cider House Rules) goes a bit overboard with the clichéd "swimming against the time" but the film is well worth watching.tarring Ewan McGregor (The Men Who Stare at Goats, Angels & Demons) as Dr. Alfred Jones, Emily Blunt (The Adjustment Bureau, Gulliver's Travels) is Harriet Chetwode-Talbot a management consultant for the salmon fishing enthusiastic Sheik, and Kristin Scott Thomas (The English Patient, Confessions of a Shopaholic) plays Bridgett Maxwell. There wasn't any bridging of diplomatic relations during the filming of this movie, just an entertaining story well acted out.

Pretty in Pink is a 1986 American teen romantic comedy-drama film directed by Howard Deutch. The film stars Molly Ringwald as Andie, a working-class high school senior who falls in love with Blane, a wealthy popular boy played by Andrew McCarthy. The film follows Andie as she navigates the challenges of high school social hierarchies and the expectations of her peers.

"Marley & Me" is a 2008 American comedy-drama film directed by David Frankel and based on the memoir by John Grogan. The film stars Owen Wilson and Jennifer Aniston as a couple who adopt a mischievous Labrador Retriever named Marley. The movie depicts their life together as a family and Marley's antics over the years, leading up to his eventual death.

"A Storybook Ending" is a short film produced by HBO. The story follows a young Black man who accidentally kills an undercover police officer and sets off a chain of events involving deceit, blackmail, and murder. The film explores themes such as race, justice, and the consequences of one's actions.

The super-smart but tragically nerdy kids go to Harvard; the wise-ass geniuses go to Yale. Natalie Portman went to Yale. Therefore, no one should feel at all surprised that Portman can follow a brilliant and breathtaking performance in Black Swan with a charming and lighthearted romp through No Strings Attached. The bitter and brutal ballet movie showed critics and audiences just how smart, sensitive, and psychotic Portman can become when a role demands manic intensity. One critic commented, "She always has been good, but now we know the woman actually can act—except she is so good we forget she is acting." No Strings Attached proves Portman's range, and it satisfies her concern that Hollywood produces far too few "vulgar" comedies for women by women and starring women."No Strings Attached gained director Ivan Reitman's attention when it qualified for the 2009 "Hollywood Blacklist," a studio executive's annual collection of the best scripts that have failed to make the cut at every major studio. The writers pitched No Strings Attached in a single sentence: "A guy and a girl struggle to have an exclusively sexual relationship as they both come to realize they want much more." Although the plot seems painfully thin, irony, sentiment, and humor alloy the script. Natalie Portman and Ashton Kutcher punctuate and pixelate the post-modern era's answer to Doris Day and Rock Hudson, delivering a sweetly satisfying Valentine's Day confection. Apparently, at Yale, students learn never to take themselves or their obvious brilliance too seriously.