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Movie-Film Production Information Summary:Patience Philips is a woman who can't seem to stop apologizing for her own existence. She works as a graphic designer for Hedare Beauty, a mammoth cosmetics company on the verge of releasing a revolutionary anti-aging product. When Patience inadvertently happens upon a dark secret her employer is hiding, she finds herself in the middle of a corporate conspiracy. What happens next changes Patience forever. In a mystical twist of fate, she is transformed into a woman with the strength, speed, agility and ultra-keen senses of a cat. With her newfound prowess and feline intuition, Patience becomes Catwoman, a sleek and stealthy creature balancing on the thin line between good and bad. Like any wildcat, she's dangerous, elusive and untamed. Her adventures are complicated by a burgeoning relationship with Tom Lone, a cop who has fallen for Patience but cannot shake his fascination with the mysterious Catwoman, who appears to be responsible for a string of crime sprees plaguing the city. DVD Specifications:Pre-owned DVD , in like-NEW condition
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Film plot en Francais:
Patience Philips est une artiste douée, mais maladivement timide, qui se contente d'un modeste emploi de dessinatrice publicitaire au sein du conglomérat Hedare Beauty que dirigent le tyrannique George Hedare et sa femme, le légendaire top model Laurel. Cette société se prépare à lancer "LE" cosmétique miracle censé procurer aux femmes un visage et un corps à jamais immaculés.
Patience découvre que le produit ne possède aucune de ces vertus, mais est froidement tuée par ses patrons avant d'avoir pu dénoncer l'imposture. Tout n'est pas perdu, cependant, car celle-ci ressuscite sous l'emprise d'une force mystérieuse. Elle se réincarne, magnifiée, en une femme féline, sensuelle, d'une agilité et d'une force surhumaines : Catwoman... Libérée de ses complexes, celle-ci commence par régler quelques comptes et s'offrir certains plaisirs trop longtemps négligés...
DVD Covers (Front/Back) of the movie: CATWOMAN with Halle Berry
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Actors/Actresses Cast of the film: CATWOMAN with Halle Berry
- Halle Berry .... Patience Philips
- Sharon Stone .... Laurel Hedare
- Benjamin Bratt .... Detective Tom Lone
- Lambert Wilson .... Georges Hedare
- Alex Borstein .... Sally
- John Cassini .... Graphologist
- Frances Conroy .... Ophelia Powers
- Michael Daingerfield .... Forensics Cop
- Aaron Douglas .... Detective
- Byron Mann .... Wesley
- Michael Massee
- Frances McDormand
- Missy Peregrym
- Ryan Robbins .... Bartender
- Samantha Simmonds
- Peter Williams
- Peter Wingfield
Photo Gallery of the Movie: CATWOMAN with Halle Berry
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For a certain segment of the population, the vision of Halle Berry in shredded skin-tight leather is reason enough to see Catwoman. As Patience Philips, Berry plays a mousy graphic designer for a cosmetics company who learns a little too much about her employer's new beauty cream and gets flushed down a waste-disposal pipe. A supernatural cat brings Patience back to life and brings up a new persona from the depths of her psyche; soon she's bounding around fire escapes, cracking a whip, and getting framed for a couple of murders by a villainous ex-supermodel (Sharon Stone, Total Recall, Basic Instinct). If you're hoping for a Catwoman with bite, this is not your movie--this Catwoman rescues children from malfunctioning ferris wheels and apologizes for stealing jewels. The movie's script and visual style are as fresh as used kitty litter. Also featuring Benjamin Bratt (Miss Congeniality), and Frances Conroy (Six Feet Under)
In Catwoman, Halle Berry faces the biggest test of her career. Costing $US90 million ($A131 million), and with Halle Berry receiving $US12.5 million for the title role, Catwoman presents the actress with both a tantalising opportunity and a considerable risk. Pre-release word on the movie has been less than encouraging.
Warner Bros had been developing Catwoman since 1991, since Michelle Pfeiffer played the character in Batman Returns. The studio had offered the part to Nicole Kidman, who declined, before learning that Halle Berry was interested.
As she has done before - in Halle Berry's explicit sex scene in Monster's Ball and her topless appearance in Swordfish - Halle Berry did not shy from using her sexuality to draw the public's attention.
Negative word of mouth has come in the wake of Catwoman's trailer, and all along there has been chatter among movie fan websites about the skimpiness of Halle Berry costume: Catwoman wears a black leather halter outfit and high heels and wields a whip, resembling nothing so much as a superhero dominatrix. She, however, has no problems with that.
"If people go see the movie," she says, "they'll see I'm projecting a lot more than sex. It's about being empowered, being OK in your skin. Sure, it's sexy. To me a certain amount of being sexy, that's OK. It's where I've evolved to as a woman."
Others say the sexualisation echoes stereotypes of black women.
"When you talk about Halle Berry, it's all about her sexuality," says Todd Boyd, a professor of critical studies at the University of Southern California School of Cinema-Television. "That ties into a historical representation of black women as being either a mammy character or someone like Halle Berry, who is represented as a sexual object.
"Her popularity as of late is curious because of the overriding sexual component that, in my mind, takes attention away from what would normally be conversations about acting skill."
Indeed, despite her supporters at Warner Bros and other studios like Lions Gate, not all studio executives are convinced that Halle Berry has a sizeable core audience. One studio chief says she does not consider Halle Berry a viable star because her perfect features are intimidating to women, and her emphasis on sexuality has made her just an object to men.
Halle Berry was the first African-American to win an Oscar for best actress - in the film Monster's Ball - and has now become the first African-American actress to headline an expensive, effects-laden production, this one about a meek graphic artist who turns into a vigilante with feline powers.
In the calculations of the movie industry, Halle Berry bankability as a star will be judged largely on whether she can "open" Catwoman. If it succeeds it will place her among the top-paid female stars, only a few of them established box-office draws, and signify yet another achievement for African-American actors. But that is far from guaranteed.
For Halle Berry, 37, Catwoman was an attempt to show, following her Oscar, that she could be a box-office draw. "This movie presented to me a whole new challenge, something I haven't done," she said in an interview. "It allowed me an opportunity to hopefully prove - if I'm really lucky, if the movie god is watching - that a woman, especially a woman of colour, can open one of these summer movies."
Unless you count the blaxploitation films starring Pam Grier in the 1970s, which were successful but decidedly low-budget, that has not yet happened in Hollywood. The progress of African-American actors in the entertainment industry has been slow and grudging but it is still significant. This year black actors are the stars of big-budget releases: Will Smith in I, Robot, Halle Berry in Catwoman and Denzel Washington in the The Manchurian Candidate. The most unusual is Catwoman, the sort of flashy, effects-heavy vehicle that rarely stars a woman, much less an African-American one.
"We decided to greenlight her in Catwoman based on her performance in which she won an Academy Award, and because we thought she was right for the role," says Jeff Robinov, the president for production at Warner Bros. "We were told she wanted to do the movie. So: Halle Berry as Catwoman? OK, let's do it."
How hard can it be to make Halle Berry in a catsuit watchable? I mean, come on! Most men and a sizeable number of women would watch her doing her laundry, but this picture made me wish I was home doing mine.
The film is dull, even though Halle Berry looks fantastic in a black leather bikini top, crossed bandoliers, leather pants and the traditional half-face hood. With long whip and diamond-studded claws, she's a ravishing male fetish of a heroine - but then, Catwoman always was.
Bob Kane created her in 1940 as a sexy addition to his Batman comic series, basing her on Hedy Lamarr, Jean Harlow and his own girlfriend of the time, who used to model for him in a homemade version of the catsuit. She wore hotpants, leather boots and a cape, essentially a Batman costume with cleavage. Kane's illustrations were erotic magazine art for priapic teenage boys. The character's real name was Selina Kyle and she came to Gotham City from a broken home, determined never to be poor. She became a cat burglar, and the yang to Batman's yin.
Kane died six years ago, so he didn't have to endure this new version of his creation, which makes Catwoman generic. Halle Berry is not the Catwoman, she's a Catwoman. Her name now is Patience Phillips and she is created by a cat called Midnight, an Egyptian mau that reanimates her after her death. I'm not giving much away here, because the first line of the film is: "It all started the day I died." We see Halle Berry floating in water, shot from below. The next 30 minutes explains how she got there, at the speed of treacle, so it's a long time before we get to see her in the cat cossie. By then, the film has been destroyed by an awful script, listless pacing and stereotyped characters.
Part of the problem is the tension between the sex object Kane created, which she looks like, and the feminist heroine someone (presumably Halle Berry) wants her to be. Instead of a sexy minx, this Catwoman is an empowered feline-of-colour role model, who wears the (full-length) pants, rather than the hot pants. Her transformation mirrors that of Peter Parker in Spiderman or Clark Kent in Superman, from wimp to whoopass, but in her case, the sexiness is kept in check to get a child-friendly rating. Halle Berry Catwoman is allowed to bust heads but she's not allowed to have sex, at least not on screen. Benjamin Bratt plays Tom Lone, a detective who's pursuing Catwoman. He and Patience go on a date, they kiss, then the film dissolves to morning and a happy Patience waking up, fulfilled. A clearer statement of Hollywood's preference for violence over sex would be hard to find.
Even though she's not called Selina, she is the same Catwoman Michelle Pfeiffer played in Batman Returns - just not as much fun. This is virtually a remake of that film, minus Batman and the Penguin. Denise Di Novi produced both films, and must have felt that once was not enough. Bratt's character replaces Batman in Catwoman's affections, and Lambert Wilson steps into the Christopher Walken role of tycoon and killer.
George Hedare (Wilson) and his wife Laurel (Sharon Stone) run the cosmetics empire that Patience works for. She discovers they're about to launch a new skin product that is dangerous for women, so they kill her. In a scene almost identical to Batman Returns, a bunch of cats rally around her body, and Midnight reanimates her.
Halle Berry then tries to do everything in cat style. She gobbles fish, sleeps on a shelf, walks along the back of the couch. Some of this raises a smile, but it's like a preliminary exercise at the Actor's Studio - "being a cat 101". Berry never gets that wide-eyed duality that made Pfeiffer so funny. She plays it straighter, as if the dumb plot means something because of its anti-cosmetics message (which is rich, coming from the face that sold Revlon).
Halle Berry acting is not the main problem. Sharon Stone is worse, less a character than a cypher for another feminist message about the way women over 40 - even sirens - get dumped for younger models. No, the bigger problem is that nobody saw to it that the film was fun. I don't object to the messages or the feminism - Pfeiffer's kitty was a feminist, too - but there's no joy in this film's making.
French commercials director Pitof, employed to make it look different, does just that, and no more. There's no drama, just a succession of pretty shots of busty Halle Berry in a bustier. Hard to believe, but that's not enough.
Catwoman Gossip
Gwyneth Paltrow has not very flattering things to say about Halle Berry's performance in 'Catwoman', hinting that Gwyneth Paltrow could have played the role of the feline superwoman in a better and more convincing way.
Gwyneth Paltrow revealed that she was very keen to play Patience Phillips, but is now relieved that she agreed to star in upcoming action movie 'Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow' instead.
The 'Shakespeare in Love' star went on to say that she reached this conclusion after watching Halle's 'uninspiring performance' in 'Catwoman'.
"I did this film because it was something completely different. Although, there is something incredibly appealing about Catwoman, being that woman and playing that part," Ananova quoted Gwyneth Paltrow as saying.
"At the time I really wanted the role. But if I was going to take something on, I wanted it to be something that nobody had ever seen or done.
And if it was going to fail, it was going to fail, but I wanted to take that risk and not be in a standard Hollywood adventure. After seeing Catwoman, I thought the character and movie were unoriginal," added the blonde beauty.
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