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10 July 2008 2:04 PM, PDT | From avclub.com | See recent The AV Club news

Like a shapelier Forrest Gump, the German model Uschi Obermaier had a knack for witnessing history without ever affecting it. A close consort of The Rolling Stones, Jimi Hendrix, and the leaders of Germany's radical left, she was a poster child for the counterculture of the '60s and '70s, doffing her clothes for the covers of news magazines and lending a touch of glamour to political protests. The trouble for Achim Bornhak's biopic Eight Miles High is that, apart from being famous, Obermaier doesn't appear to have actually done much. As played by Polish-born newcomer Natalia Avelon, she's a shallow dilettante in thrall to ideas beyond her ken, Marianne Faithfull without the talent. At times, Bornhak shows an awareness of his heroine's vapidity. She steals away from the grungy anti-capitalists in Munich's Kommune 1 to apply a touch of eye shadow; going without clothes is one thing, going without.

Sam Adams

3 July 2008 9:07 AM, PDT | From ifc.com | See recent IFC news

By Matt Singer

Many movies wax nostalgic for the good old days; "The Wackness" is the only movie I can think of that's nostalgic for a time occupied by people who are themselves nostalgic about their own good old days. Though writer/director Jonathan Levine's wistful coming-of-age film wants us to miss New York City as we knew it in 1994, the characters are all pissed off: their marriages are falling apart or their high school careers (and, thus, their lives) are coming to an end, and the new mayor is cracking down on drug use.

I guess the grass . the grass, man . is always greener. Luke Shapiro (Josh Peck) is an enterprising high school senior who makes up for his parents' employment fuckups by dealing pot around his Upper East Side neighborhood. His aesthetic, much like the movie itself, is pointedly old school: cassettes instead of CDs, Nintendo instead of Sega Genesis.

Matt Singer

9 March 2008 4:01 PM, PDT | From wenn.com | See recent WENN news

The sequel to the TV show John Ritter was shooting when he died is to be turned into a movie.

As Ritter's widow Amy Yasbeck fights an ongoing wrongful death legal battle with doctors she claims misdiagnosed her husband in 2003, studio bosses are planning to turn writer W. Bruce Cameron's 8 Simple Rules For Dating My Teenage Daughter into a film.

Cameron will adapt his semi-autobiographical book 8 Simple Rules For Marrying My Daughter for the project, which will be produced by Oscar winner Wendy Finerman, the woman behind big screen hits like The Devil Wears Prada and Forrest Gump.

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