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22 hours ago · Review aggregator Rotten Tomatoes gives the film an approval rating of 96% based on 74 reviews, and an average rating of 8.50/10. The site's critical consensus reads, " Who Framed Roger Rabbit is an innovative and entertaining film that features a groundbreaking mix of live action and animation, with a touching and original story to boot."
- $50.6 million
- Alan Silvestri
- June 22, 1988
22 hours ago · Background Joyce first encountered the figure of Odysseus/Ulysses in Charles Lamb's Adventures of Ulysses, an adaptation of the Odyssey for children, which seems to have established the Latin name in Joyce's mind. At school he wrote an essay on the character, titled "My Favourite Hero." Joyce told Frank Budgen that he considered Ulysses the only all-round character in literature. He considered ...
- John W. Presley, James Joyce, Hans Walter Gabler, Wolfhard Steppe, Claus Melchior
- 732
- 1922
- 2 February 1922
22 hours ago · Writing. The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari was written by Hans Janowitz and Carl Mayer, both of whom were pacifists by the time they met following World War I. Janowitz served as an officer during the war, but the experience left him embittered with the military, which affected his writing.
- $4,713
- 26 February 1920 (Germany)
- $12,371
- Decla-Film (later known as Decla-Bioscop AG)
22 hours ago · (Adèle's biography inspired the movie The Story of Adele H.) His wife Adèle had died in 1868. Hugo on his deathbed (photographed by Nadar) Tomb of Victor Hugo at the Panthéon. His faithful mistress, Juliette Drouet, died in 1883, only two years before his own death. Despite his personal loss, Hugo remained committed to the cause of political ...
- 5
- Panthéon, Paris
- 1829–1883
22 hours ago · Plot A baby is born in Bethlehem among the shepherds and visited by Magi in a cave. In A.D. 26 [b] Jerusalem, Judah Ben-Hur, a wealthy Jewish prince and merchant, lives with his mother, Miriam, and younger sister, Tirzah. The family's steward, Simonides, has a daughter named Esther. Judah grants Simonides' request for Esther to marry a freeman and gives Esther her freedom as a wedding gift ...
- $15.2 million
- Miklós Rózsa
- November 18, 1959
- Sam Zimbalist
22 hours ago · Plot After hearing the prophecy of a Hebrew deliverer, Pharaoh Rameses I of Egypt orders the death of all newborn Hebrew males. Yochabel saves her infant son by setting him adrift in a basket on the Nile. Bithiah, the Pharaoh Rameses's recently widowed daughter (and sister of the future Pharaoh Seti I), finds the basket and decides to adopt the boy, even though her servant, Memnet, recognizes ...
22 hours ago · Robin Roberts developed an interest in rock 'n' roll and rhythm and blues records as a high school student in Tacoma, Washington.Among the songs he began performing as an occasional guest singer with a local band, the Bluenotes, in 1958 were "Louie Louie", which he had "rescued from oblivion" after hearing Berry's obscure original single, and Bobby Day's "Rockin' Robin", which gave him his ...
