Keyword: underdog
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Edward Scissorhands
Not every drama movie needs to reinvent the wheel, but Edward Scissorhands manages to feel fresh anyway, thanks largely to Tim Burton’s confident direction. The film’s own tagline — “Innocence is what he knows. Beauty is what she sees.” — tells you almost everything about the tone it’s going for. The setup is straightforward enough…
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Napoleon Dynamite
There is a reason “Napoleon Dynamite” keeps coming up in conversations about comedy filmmaking since its 2004 release. That reputation, as it turns out, is well earned. Everything the film wants you to feel is right there in its tagline: “He’s out to prove he’s got nothing to prove.” At the center of it are…