Shoshobe

This historical drama focuses on Napoleon's relationship with Josephine, so you won't be getting a full chronicle of Napoleon's life or his military achievements and failures. However, given that this is a story about their relationship, the writers should have spent more time developing why they got together which is very lightly glossed over. Most everything about this movie is well done - the acting, story, cinematography (especially the battle scenes) and costumes. The main problem is Phoenix. Although he's one of the best actors of his generation, he is miscast and lost in the role to the point of distraction. Ultimately, it's a good watch although somewhat unnecessarily long.

Johnny (Grant) gets engaged to a Julia, a socialite from an extremely wealthy family, and just before the nuptials, he reveals that he wants to live his life as an unemployed drifter. Julia cannot accept this, but her sister Linda (Hepburn) is a stand by your man kind of gal who encourages Julia to stay with Johnny if she truly loves him. Wrong, in a relationship, the unreasonable party should always yield to the reasonable one, in this case Julia. It's surprising that Hepburn would take a role that is so anti-feminist. This is actually a good movie, but it would be so much better if Julia dumped Johnny for having a simple job (like a milkman) that made him happy, but to promote a lay-about lifestyle on the heels of the Great Depression is reckless and irresponsible.

A tale of two sisters...Merricat - an imbalanced, anti-social teen obsessed with burying her deceased parents' valuables/money throughout the sprawling grounds of their estate, and Constance - an introvert leading a meaningless existence who merely responds to her younger sister's disturbing behavior by smiling each time. The sisters live isolated like this until they are confronted by the outside world.