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The Mighty Macs is a 2009 American sports drama film by director Tim Chambers. It stars Carla Gugino in the lead role of Cathy Rush , a Hall of Fame women's basketball coach. The film premiered in the 2009 Heartland Film Festival and was released theatrically in the United States on October 21, 2011 through indie film label Freestyle Releasing .
Mr. 3000 garnered mixed reviews from critics. On the review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes, 55% of 113 critics' reviews are positive, with an average rating of 5.8/10. The website's consensus reads: "Bernie Mac demonstrates he can play the game even if the movie's a few innings short of a complete game."
'Convoy' is a bad joke that backfires on the director. He has neither the guts to play the movie straight as melodrama nor the sense of humor to turn it into a kind of 'Smokey and the Bandit' comedy. The movie is a big, costly, phony exercise in myth-making, machismo, romance-of-the-open-road nonsense and incredible self-indulgence."
Directors Rob Epstein and Jeffrey Friedman document the talented performer's years-in-the-making marathon project; Mel Gibson's lucky he's only in a few scenes of weak "Confidential Informant."
"A Complete Unknown" is a drama of scruffy naturalism, with a plot that doesn’t so much unfold as lope right along with its legendary, curly-haired, sunglass-wearing coffee-house troubadour hero.
Mac and Isaac Hayes died on August 9 and 10, 2008, respectively. [3] Director Lee said the film was heavily re-edited to soften the tone of the film, as a tribute to the two actors. It is the last Weinstein Company film to be distributed by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. Critical reviews were mixed, and Soul Men was not a financial success.
Ars Technica noted that neither Steve Jobs nor Steve Wozniak, the founders of Apple Inc., appear in the film.However, several notable figures in the history of the Macintosh appear in the film, including Mac engineers Andy Hertzfeld and Jim Reekes, former Apple Evangelist Guy Kawasaki, and Ron Wayne, a "short-lived but original co-founder of Apple Computer".
The Mac was very much undergoing a midlife crisis. Nearly a half-century after the arrival of the first Apple computer, the category still has some life left in it yet. Mac Studio review: emerging ...