Top cast:Mel Gibson,Tina Turner,Bruce Spence
Director:Gil Junger
Genre:Drama
Region:Sweden
Year:2004
Storyline:However, it set a milestone as thefirstfilm to receive nominations in all four acting categories and it remains one of the few films with that distinction in addition to not being nominated for Best Picture.While Deputy Neale stepped off the porch and took a smoke break outside the Brackett home, he was garrotted from behind and his neck was broken by Michael(# 15 death).A few of the loosely-connected scenes that were woven ogether have become classics:the funny sight-gag of repeatedly pickpocketing a Sheriff of a $5 dollar bill, to make it look like a $15 bill was paidthe famous "Tootsie-Frootsie" Ice Cream/Code Book scene at the racetrackthe Phone Call Impersonation sequencethe two Medical Examination scenesa clever Pantomime (Game of Charades) o indicate a frame-upthe Dinner-Date seduction and Wallpapering to the Wall scenethe destruction of a piano and its transformation into a harpthe climactic Steeplechase race sequenceThis was theonlyMarx Brothers film to receive a competitive Oscar nomination -- Dave Gould's Best Dance Direction for the song/dance number "All God's Children Got Rhythm" in he last part of the film.The sullen workers leaving the subterranean machine area after their shift are exhausted, marching in unison only half as fast as the new shift of entering employees." Looking down upon his sarcophagus was the statue of the Egyptian god Anubis, the jackal-headed god of death.