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2012-05-17 01:31:11

One of Brittany Murphy's Last Films. We will miss you Brittany!

This review is from: Tribute (DVD) The movie is a little corny but if you liked Northern Lights. part of the the Nora Roberts collection, you will enjoy this. Brittany Murphy is great. I am so glad that I ordered the movie since Brittany Murphy passed away today. I beleive she was 32. There is a editing error in the movie, one big and one small. See if you can find them. The more times you see the movie, the better it gets.

2012-05-16 04:39:55

great movie

This review is from: Tribute (DVD) This is a great movie I am glad I bought it. amazon.com is a good place to buy, it is reasonable in price and very safe to buy what you want or need. I use amazon all the time it really is so easy to find what you want to buy instead of going from one store to another just go to amazon.com and there it is

2012-05-07 02:56:23

Good movie considering the budget.

This is the third Nora Robert's book based movie I have seen, and I have to say it was the best followed secondly by Angel Falls. I knew before hand that it wouldn't be as good as the book, however I like seeing characters brought to life on screen so I gave it a shot. And in this case I enjoyed it. I loved Brittany Murphy, her delivery always made me smile. Good cast all around really. Yes they had to cut a lot of the book out to fit it into the time frame but they followed the just of the book and it was still pretty darn good and entertaining. I rented it originally but now I am definitely buying it to own from Amazon.

2012-05-06 12:37:02

Great seller...BAD movie

Great Seller...The movie was terrible. Bad acting by all. Nothing more I can say about it except...Save your money.

2012-05-06 18:51:09

Great movie

When I read the book I loved it. Then saw it was going to be a movie and could hardly wait. This is my favorite Roberts book to become a movie. I think they did an excellent job with fitting the story into the time limit they had to work with. Brittany Murphy was very good as Cilla.This story is about a young lady who buys and flips homes. She was a child star from a family of actors. Her grandmother Janet was one of the most famous actresses of her time and Cilla moves into Janet's house to restore it and live there. While there she has visions of her grandmother trying to tell her the truth about her death. Cilla starts looking for clues and with the help of her neighbor and new lover Ford, she discovers her grandmother did not commit suicide as it was reported. They are searching for Janet's murderer and the murderer is trying to scare her away.This is not a big dollar Hollywood movie. It is a made for TV movie and will not have all of the high tech that is available for a theater movie. Enjoy it for what it is. I did.

2012-05-05 22:55:12

Loved the Book, Did not like the movie

This review is from: Tribute (DVD) I really loved the book, but the characters in the movie were nothing like the characters I imagined in my mind while reading the book. The Heroine in the book was a very strong person. It the movie the make her appear very weak and reliant on a man to do something. I normally like the Nora Roberts movies, but this is the worst one I have seen to date.

2012-05-04 13:27:26

Brittany Murphy makes this work

Without Brittany Murphy, this film would probably be saccharinschmaltz. The story is kind of pedantic:Failed child star inherits a Virginia mansion from her grandmother, atwo-time Oscar winner from the late 60s, early 70s, who died from anapparent suicide before Murphy's character was born.The plot includes some intrigues about her grandmother's secret affairwith a mysterious married man....and she has to deal with bad feelings the townies have toward herfamily...and there's a lot of creaking and sneaking and lame scaretactics.All through this lame frame work of scenes...Brittany Murphy makes asilk purse out of a sows ear. She turns water into wine. She gives somuch on screen with her realistic and edgy performance. I've watchedthis lame movie three times already, because Brittany Murphy ismesmerizing in this. She doesn't even have to say any lines, and youget what she's trying to communicate. Everything shows in her face andbody language.Even when the killer is revealed, and the plot unravels into lamepredictability...she still makes it work. I keep watching because I'mamazed that she makes this script sound organic, as though they weren'tlines from a Lifetime Original Movie. She delivers as though she'sactually thinking and feeling what is written on the page. I'm totallyblown away...by Brittany Murphy...not by the film its self.

2012-05-04 12:08:48

Big Fan

This review is from: Tribute (DVD) I loved this movie. I am glad that Brittany Murphy got to play in this. She was great. The movie is called Tribute, now I see it as a tribute to Brittany. Watch it!

sol 2012-05-04 03:45:17

Your kin has brought us nothing but sorrow and misery!

***SPOILERS*** Going back to her roots in Virginia's Shenandoah Valleyformer child movie star Cilla McGowan, Brittany Murphy, is determinedto restore her grandmother's,the legendary Academy Award winningactress and singer, Janet Hardy (Tiffany Morgan) southern mansion. Theplace over the last thirty five years has gone to pot since Janet'stragic death-at age 38-back in the winter of 1971 from a massiveoverdose of barbiturates.It doesn't take long for Cilla to make enemies in town with the angryand a bit unstable-to say the least- Old Man Carl Hennessey, WallaceMerck, suspiciously snooping around her house. Hennessey later showshow very very unneighborly like he is by him spitting in Cilla's facewhen she confronted him about his very strange and bizarre actions. Itturned out that Cilla's Uncle Johnnie was responsible-by drivingdrunk-in Carl's son-who was a passenger in Johnnie's car- ending upparalyzed from the neck down!There's also the fact that Janet was also having an affair with one ofher neighbors that by Cilla uncovering his love letters, all unsigned,to her strongly hinted that she got pregnant by him! This may well havelead, in Janet's lover trying to save his marriage, to her murder notsuicide as reported by the, back then in 1971, local coroner!Getting romantically involved with her next door-or next farm- neighborFord Sawyer, Jason Lewis, a local graphic designer Cilla soon becomesthe target of some local lunatic who, like some half dozen others intown, has it in for her for what Cilla's family-or late Grandma JanetHardy-actions did to him. It's this shadowy psycho who's constantlybreaking into Cilla's now restored mansion,and wrecking the joint,while she's away mostly spending her nights at Ford's place. It soonbecomes evident to the police that Old Man Hennessey isn't the personthat's committing these property crimes and acts of terror since he'sbeen locked up all the time that they've been happening to Cilla. Thenwho's the person committing them?As we all suspect, due to her very wild and anything goes lifestyle,the person driving poor Cilla's nuts has to be the man, or possibly hisvery jealous wife, whom Janet had an affair with just before her suddenand mysterious death! It's then that Cilla as well as her boyfriendFord Sawyer realizes that it was that person who very possibly murderedJanet, and had it made to look like a suicide, and now in her gettingclose to the truth is going to do the very same thing to Cilla!

2012-05-03 16:38:36

Love, mystery and murder

This review is from: Tribute (DVD) Made for TV, Nora Roberts combines love, mystery and murder into a a wonderful 90 minute pastime. After watching the movie you'll be left with a profound sadness that the star of the movie has died a such an early age. Britteny Murphy will be missed.

2012-04-28 13:23:28

Read The Book Instead

This movie was beyond horrible. I can't say enough bad things about it. If you've read the book first you will know what I'm talking about. Why they would ever cast Britany Murphy as Cilla McGowen is beyond me. She is nothing like the character in the book. Cilla is tall, blond and with ice blue eyes. Murphy is short with brown eys. And that actor who played Ford Sawyer was a complete disaster. The acting was atrocious. Who ever wrote the script and directed this should be ashamed for tearing apart a totally wonderful book until it became absolutely unrecognizable on film. I would give it less than one star if I could. Skip this movie and buy the book. You won't feel you've wasted your time.

46yroldmale 2012-04-28 06:59:43

It's all about the lips

Tippi Hedren is in this movie so I was watching for her. I didn't know Tippi Hedren was going to be in the movie until after it started and I saw her name in the credits. I'm not actually a Tippi Hedren fan so I didn't expect I'd recognize her - because it's been 46 years since The Birds and when you've got 46 years between watching one movie to the next then you can expect there's going to be some changes. So I'm watching this movie trying to figure out who Tippi Hedren is. I know it's not the main character because she's young and Tippi's got to be, well, at least 46. The main character is this young girl who looks kind of like a duck. I don't mean to be rude but I don't know how better to describe the new Brittany Murphy look; which I do not like. It couldn't possibly be what Ms. Murphy wanted the day she when into her doctor's office and said, "Big lips please". Any doctor that would take that pretty little face and do what he did has to be a quack. So, to be honest I was having as hard of time recognizing Brittany as I was Tippi. It kind of ruined the movie for me, because I went in knowing it wasn't going to be a guy movie anyway, but then when I found that Brittany had gone all platypus I was really thinking, what's the use? Because the story is weak, the movie plods, and Brittany has duck lips.

Michelle Pickrell 2012-04-26 16:12:52

Doesn't Live Up To The Book

I have been a big fan of Nora Roberts for many years. When I hear thatsome of her books were being turned into movies, I was very happy. Ihave seen the first four movies that had the same treatment and wasexpecting the same quality entertainment this time around.I was very happy with the other three movies in this set. NorthernLights, Midnight Bayou, and High Noon met and sometimes even exceededmy expectations. It was only with Tribute that they fell short. Itmostly had to do with the casting of Brittany Murphy in the role ofCilla.In the book, Cilla is assertive, active, knowledgeable about allaspects of remodeling the house and physically capable of handling anypart of the remodel. Ms. Murphy manages to pull off being assertive,active, and knowledgeable but she really misses on the physical aspect.Just watching her swing a sledge hammer makes me cringe. She swings itwith little force and looks as if she's going to smash her foot at anymoment. I am amazed that she didn't have an accident with the sledgewhile filming.All in all it was an okay movie but it's definitely my least favoriteof the second four.

2012-04-26 08:01:10

GOOD AND ADORABLE

This review is from: Tribute (DVD) Everyone is entitled to there own opinion, well guess what, so am I and the others who appreciated this movie. This movie dragged a bit the first 30 minutes. It was adorable as the movie progressed. Brittany Murphy was as always: (R.I.P.) giddy, cute with a wonderful sense of humor. If you love Nora Roberts and love adorable Brittany Murphy and of course Jason Lewis, you'll like this movie!

2012-04-22 18:15:15

Hallmark type of Movie

This review is from: Tribute (DVD) I really like Brittany I can't believe she is no longer but I was hard to watch because her lips were too big whoever did her lip job messed up big time it and you could tell she had hair extentions and the acting was not good at all. I was really surprised. But I will watch because I'm a fan of Brittany.

2012-04-22 11:44:38

Soap Opera Horror

Tribute mixes the corny acting of a soap opera with the silly scares of a B-horror movie. The movie descends into a drama about a 30-year-old suicide/murder. Despite the description of the movie, the whole "child actor" drama doesn't really play as large a role. The acting is pretty lame. Jason Lewis doesn't come across as a comforting boyfriend, but rather as a stalker in his own right. Maybe it's his sinister voice, or the fact that he looks at Brittany Murphy with binoculars. Nonetheless, he doesn't work well. Brittany Murphy isn't horrible, but not compelling - almost as if she were the child actor who quit acting.The movie leaves loose ends everywhere. One of Brittany Murphy's friend's is knocked out and lying in a hospital, but by the end of the movie we still don't know what happened to him. There are others, but I won't reveal them for fear of spoiling the plot.At the end of he movie, I just didn't feel satisfied. This had way too much soap opera, not enough plot for a good movie.

2012-04-22 13:24:10

This Nora Roberts Film Was Pretty Good

I actually really liked this one, total twist at the end. Murphy does a pretty good job, I enjoyed it.

2012-04-22 02:14:57

Horrible Movie Based Upon A Good Nora Roberts Book

I agree with other reviewer comments. This movie only minutely follows Nora Robert's book of the same title. The acting was horrible. Brittany Murphy was clearly a poor choice for the lead female role. Her attempts to play a romantic heroine was laughable. Plus, the hairdo she had throughout the film is enough to turn one off. Was the budget so tight that even a comb would have put the movie over budget? The guy wasn't much better but at least he didn't consistently overact his role as much as Murphy did. The movie was also so disjointed that it didn't make a whole lot of sense in numerous places. Suffice it to say that it was an effort to watch it all the way through. It was ironic that I had just finished reading the book the same day this movie was shown. Was totally amazed how the makers of the movie could have put out such a piece of worthless and uninteresting film and used Nora Roberts name as a draw to get it shown during prime time TV. Wonder if Ms. Roberts has seen this travesty of her book? This one is a candidate for a "Razzberry" award. Don't waste your time or money on this one. It stinks.

2012-04-19 03:51:49

Love this Movie

I don't care what other people say. I Reallly love this movie and all of the other Nora Robert movies, the only thing that I wish they were is a bit longer so more of the story could be put into the movie like the book, esp. the ones like Monata Sky, Northern Lights, and Angels Fall, but really all of the movies. They do a pretty job of staying with the book for the most part which I really do like. Because I relly hate movies that are based off of books and then are so far off the book it makes you not want to finish watching it. So for the others that gave this movie such a bad review to each is own that is their right, but you don't have to listen to them. And I had forgetten that this was Brittany Murphy's last movie before she died. She will be missed. She did a very good job on it.

2012-04-18 14:04:27

Worst TV Movie Ever

I read the book on this one, and loved it. I had hoped the movie would be half way descent. Wrong!! This movie stinks!!! The characters are made no sense, and it's nothing like the book.