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Your Base are Belong to Us (2001)
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Charade, the 1963 Stanley Donen thriller, is almost as much fun as a barrel of monkeys. Well, maybe not that much fun. Rife with action, adventure, and sexual tension between beautiful people, it has appeal that has stood the test of time and makes the movie stand up among the greatest thrillers ever made.
Filmed beautifully by Donen—perhaps best known for On the Town and Singin’ in the Rain—the film opens with a gorgeous shot of snow covered mountains, and pans to an even more beautiful shot of the incomparable Audrey Hepburn. The rest of the cast is equally star-studded, with Cary Grant as the male lead opposite Hepburn, and Walter Matthau co-starring as a CIA agent.
The plot is not overly complicated. Hepburn plays the widow of a man who clearly came into some money that did not belong to him. His former partners want their shares back, and Hepburn finds herself being chased and harassed over the large sum of cash—the catch being that she doesn’t. . .
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