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Caesar's Park

2000, Movie, NR, 67 mins

CAESAR'S PARK
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Filmmaker Sarah Price's ensemble portrait of her blue-collar Milwaukee, WI, neighbors is simultaneously endearing and sad. A nondescript enclave of mostly single- and two-family houses, Caesar's Park is the kind of neighborhood people drive through without a backward glance; as a group, its residents are the kind of people who pass through life unnoticed, but as individuals, each took a unique path to invisibility. Dyspeptic, foul-mouthed Jeannie, a Polish war bride, abides b... read more leave a comment
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Well, you certainly can't say nothing happened this week, huh? Caesar, in Egypt, has to deal with boy-king Ptolemy, Cleopatra's brother. ("I think I can handle a small boy and an eunuch," he says when asked if sticking around to "settle things" is a good idea after being presented with Pompey's head as a gift.) Of course he can, and how bad do we want to see him give that annoying little gnat a good slap, kick or series of both? But we get something better — a brilliantly done fight scene when Lucius and Pullo are sent to rescue Cleo from the assassins her little brother hired, followed by a hilarious sex scene and its aftermath when she demands Lucius sleep with her, and he sends Pullo in to do the deed. And it doesn't slow down from there. She manages to look amazing when dumped out of a piece of burlap and onto the floor. And it's clear that Caesar, and read more

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