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The trustees of a book festival are determined to maintain its integrity and independence when confronted by a failing publishing company that attempts to corrupt the outcome to keep from collapsing.

The company has not a ghostwriter, but a ghost author who must be protected. This leads to attempts on the life of the real author. Which leads to deaths by self-defense, not murder.

The show has numerous red herrings related to Gay relationships, possible blackmail, reformed criminals, secretive payoffs and all sorts of other duplicity which leads the viewer in all sorts of directions.

As such, it is completely confusing but fun to watch.

Regarding the rating system: The Most Rated review has many reviews but few positive responses. So Most Rated main may not mean best rated.

In fact the Most Rated episode is mainly a takeoff of a Tony Shaloub review of Frazier Crane in an episode of the Frazier show" "I just don't like him."

Save yourself 1 hour and 21 minutes of your life; just watch the last minute first. You'll thank me.

It is a fascinating movie that has just one problem: The last minute when you find that there is no ending. Sure, it obviously ends. I mean credits are displayed, the screen finally goes blank and otherwise you would find yourself damned in Hell watching this garbage endlessly. (As an aside, churches should show this to their parishioners to prove the existence of Hell).

It would be like watching "The African Queen" and when Bogart climbs out of the water screaming in horror with the leeches all over him and suddenly "The End" shines on the screen leaving you wondering "What the Hell just happened?"

One wonders what the point of making the movie was. How many Canne Film Festivals and college philosophy majors could there be that would warrant making this movie.

Sure, if you had a dungeon that you could shackle your friends in and force them to watch it and not allow them to leave until they submit and profess that the film is brilliant and so are you for loving it, I could understand.

Otherwise, don't watch.

This episode is meant to be a farce. The Oxford Language Definition of farce is: a comic dramatic work using buffoonery and horseplay and typically including crude characterization and ludicrously improbable situations. The writer of this definition must have based it on this miserable episode.

This episode is played off as a slapstick comedy. But, the mischievous family members, excluding the daughter, have kidnapped and murdered 6 men that failed to attract the attention of the daughter. Doesn't quite compare to The Three Stooges or The Marx Brothers.

And if the plot isn't horrible enough, the director obviously had never learned the timing and mannerisms of comedy.

Kind Hearts and Coronets, starring Alec Guinness, had murders but was comical. The Good Guys had numerous deaths but they were brilliantly written, acted and directed. This thing had none of them.

I want to hire these buffoons so I can collect on the damage insurance. If there truly is a company that accepts bids for transporting property, surely they would have been sued out of existence by hiring these clowns. Stupid is not synonymous with funny.

Why would anyone having seen this show would call this company? Everything is always damaged, late and these delivery people are unlikeable obnoxious people. No one would hire them and no one would accept their incompetence and rudeness.

But people seem to like this type of entertainment. But people also like cock-fighting.

Drop in on this store and end up in an emergency ward. If the owner and employees don't pistol whip you, the clients will.

Seriously, if this were real, and you saw it on TV, would you be insane enough to go there? Yeah, you could insure grandpa to the max, shave his head and dress him in a NAZI uniform and wait to hear from the police to go and identify his body. Collect the insurance and move to Barbados.

Otherwise, if you are stupid enough to go there, wear body armor and leave a note to the wife and kids in case you don't return.

Doing silly things is one thing but these two just do outrageously stupid things that serve no purpose. Why people enjoy stuff like this , I haven't a clue. Why these same people are allowed to vote , I haven't a clue.

The Three Stooges did things like this , but they were funny. These two are not.

Someone has already noted that this show is about the repair of broken equipment, not the search for gold. Obviously it is not real, just actors.

The equipment is always broken, the employees are drunks, druggies, but worse, they are supposed to be totally unskilled, incompetent, obnoxious, lazy, argumentative, unreliable, and prone to threats of violence. They are fit only for a reality show or elected government positions.

In reality, I could take my child's beach bucket and shovel and have greater success at finding gold.

OK, I can only stomach maybe 30 seconds of this program before I have to change the channel. Only 30 seconds? Trust me, if your IQ is greater than KoKo the gorilla, that is all the time you need.

The two guys are surveilling some house in Argentina where Hitler may have stayed. You know something like 75 years ago. They see somebody walk out and then suspiciously walk back into the house. Maybe he saw two dipsticks spying on him.

Me, I would have gone to a realtor and asked "who owns that house?" "Oh, you must mean the Hitler house.'" "Yeah, that's the one." "Some retiree." "Not Hitler?" "No, I think he moved to Miami. But just go up and knock on the door. People are friendly here in Argentina. You must be one of those deranged suspicious Americans. The last one was searching for The Lost Dutchman's mine. Yeah, we get all the crazies."

OK, I only saw about a minute of the movie but I wanted to comment on a quality which most people would likely miss. Two people were killed at the bottom of a hill and the others come upon their bodies. Several scurry down to examine the bodies. The camera then shows the view from the people standing on the hill looking down. They see the others investigating and their own shadows below, but no camera is in the shadows. Excellent work by the cinematographer.

Well, what did you expect ? It is Pauly Shore after all. Great comedy. Typical Pauly Shore with humor but also a nice compassionate ending. Yeah, truthfully, I could have dome without the sex, but it is still a riot.

SPOILER ALERT! I did love the scene with Pauly's best friend, who has promised Pauly to ask Sean Penn about offering Pauly a part in his next film, meeting Penn in a bar. Penn is racking his brain trying to remember Pauly's name, sitting their describing Pauly's appearance, the movies he was in, some of his comedy sketches, but can't remember his name to save his soul. All the time Pauly's buddy sits there and feigns total ignorance of who Penn is trying to remember. Like some of the SOB's we all know.

Jean Hansen (Judy Garland) is an inexperienced nurse at a home for children with mental issues. She sees a small child that she feels just needs love and tenderness. And against Dr Matthew Clark's (Burt Lancaster) advice, she becomes closer to the child. Ultimately, with great intentions but improper actions, her life and that of the child and his parents start collapsing around them.

Life is not so simple. Love, sadly, is not always what is needed. An incredibly emotional movie. Maybe that some should not watch.

OK, this has spoilers so be prepared: Of all the things that I love most about this film, it is that even though Superintendent Newhouse (Laurence Olivier) suspects that there is no Bunny Lake, he has his police force searching valiantly for the child. It is so refreshing to see a character understand that the effort has to be made in spite of what seems obvious, that there is no Bunny Lake.

If you love Married With Children, My Name is Earl and Seinfeld, then you will love the insane humor in this movie. Also comparable to Mixed Nuts with craziness, warmth and sensitivity. Some have criticized it for the diversity of emotions. But this is not the Marx Brothers, where total insanity reigns unfettered. Funny as it is, this is a movie of loss and reclamation. A movie with hope and happiness. A movie with totally original absurd humor.

SPOILER ALERT! OK, this movie makes no sense at all. Johnny Depp's character hires a detective to investigate a man who denies seeing John Torurro's character with him. OK, I admit I do this all the time. Then he murders the detective and the man. Haven't we all? Then we find out that Torturro is imaginary. Usually my imaginary people are friendlier with me than Toturro's character is and usually they look like Pamela Anderson. Then he kills his ex-wife and her fiance.

What has a window got to do with it? And why is the window behind a chest of drawers. I'm confused.

And what about the other people in the village who may have seen him not with Torturro's character? Me, I would have snuck into the village, padlocked everybody in their homes and burned the place down. Then chopped them up with a fire ax using "The Shining" style and slipped back to my home and pretended to be asleep. I also would have had cartoon music in the background. Not sure if this would have helped the movie but it couldn't have hurt it.

Stock footage used in this episode shows a charging African elephant being shot in the head. Disgusting.

Stewart captures a wanted outlaw,Ryan, and runs across several other despicable, dangerous and untrustworthy people. So what does he do? Of course, he invites them to tag along with him and Ryan and enjoy the great outdoors, camping out, having fun and adventures along the way and just engaging in some good old fashioned fellowship.

I mean, who wouldn't want to be in the company of a group of thieves and murderers? So along the way, Jimmy-Boy gets sleepy. So does he tie up Ryan and the others? No, why would he? No, Jimmy, stumbling along, why does Jimmy always incur some type of injury in his films, listens as Ryan tells him he has to sleep sometime, and surprisingly without fail, little Jimmy does and the bad guys take him prisoner. Who could have seen that coming? Feel free to throw up at this point in the movie.

Typical, silly, "Duh I'm too stupid to take care of myself", Jimmy Stewart movie. Add in "The Mountain Road", "The Man Who Shot Liberty Valence", "The Man Who Knew Too Much" and the list goes on and you get the picture.

Be advised that this movie contains an heroic Christian character. This seems set off the hate in a lot of people. So, if not one of them, enjoy the show, lots of action, a comedic character to pull for (he survives) and enough dead bodies to placate a Rambo fan. But do not become too attached to the characters because the cutting room floor was covered with their blood.