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Synopsis: Suzanne Stone (Maretto) knows exactly what she wants. She wants to be a television newscaster and she is willing to do anything to get what she wants. What she lacks in intelligence, she makes up for in cold determination and diabolical wiles. As she pursues her goal with relentless focus, she is forced to destroy anything and anyone that may stand in her way, regardless of the ultimate cost or means necessary.
Genre: Comedy, Crime, Drama
Director(s): Gus Van Sant
Production: Columbia Pictures
  Won 1 Golden Globe. Another 6 wins & 12 nominations.
 
IMDB:
6.8
Metacritic:
86
Rotten Tomatoes:
87%
R
Year:
1995
106 min
1,648 Views


when you think about it.

Or, to take another example...

someone who doesn't appear to have

an ethnic bone in her body--

Jane Pauley...

who I strongly relate to...

because, you know,

we have similar physical traits.

Although, I thankfully don't have

to struggle with the weight problem...

like she does.

And she also,

to the best of my knowledge...

has never identified herself,

audience-wise...

as Jane Trudeau...

even though her husband,

Mr. Trudeau...

is a prominent cartoonist

of some kind...

and not, as so many people believe,

the ex-president of Canada.

So, what I'm saying is this:

There are some people

who never know who they are...

or who they wanna be

until it's too late...

and that is a real tragedy

in my book...

because I always knew who I was

and who I wanted to be, always.

Who wants to be on TV?

There she is!

- Look at who's looking at herself.

- Just look at that.

Suzanne, lookie there.

Come here.

Look at the camera.

- See?

- Look, what a darling.

Sweetheart.

Can't you get it focused

better than that?

And we're back...

with the families

of Suzanne and Larry Maretto.

Mr. Stone.

At first, I have to admit we--

we didn't think too much of it,

the relationship.

Here was our daughter,

a college graduate.

Junior college, yes, but...

with good grades and a degree in--

Electronic journalism.

Exactly.

And here was this young man...

a good boy obviously...

but, still, a boy

whose education was...

limited to high school.

I remember saying, 'Honey--'

Honey, I'm worried that you don't know

what you're getting into with this kid.

- Dad, I'm not a little girl anymore.

- I know that.

All I'm saying is that...

we come from

pretty different backgrounds.

'For all you know his family

could be mixed up with the mafia.'

- I'm sorry, Joe.

- No problem, Earl.

- I was just being--

- I understand.

I understand. Please.

She just laughed at me.

- Don't worry.

- I have to worry.

That's what dads do.

If you ask me, I'd say Larry

appealed to a side of her...

that you wouldn't ordinarily know

was there.

It was a kind of a-- What?

A wild side.

Not wild, but--

Wild.

I thought he would marry--

I don't know.

A nice lfalian girl.

But like the guy

in The Godfather says...

'This is America, okay?

The melting pot.'

Anyway, one day,

Larry comes over to me. He says--

I'm gonna tell you something, Pop.

She's going places.

She's got goals.

You know, she's studying stuff.

She's sending out resumes

all the time.

Did I show you what she gave me

for my birthday?

'You Can Be The 0ne.'

The one what?

Well, the one anything.

That's the point.

It's self-motivation.

It's from that guy on TV,

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Buck Henry

Henry Zuckerman, credited as Buck Henry (born December 9, 1930), is an American actor, writer, film director, and television director. He has been nominated for an Academy Award twice, in 1968 for Best Adapted Screenplay for The Graduate and in 1979 for Best Director for Heaven Can Wait. more…

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