Mark Harris
Mark Harris
Mark Harriswas an American novelist, literary biographer, and educator...
ProfessionNovelist
Date of Birth19 November 1922
CityMount Vernon, NY
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I think that's good news for 'A Civil Action,' which is the first real prestige movie of the season, and one that is not competing for the same audiences,
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Prince of Egypt' is an enormous gamble for DreamWorks, ... It's a very expensive film. The question is: can they be all things to all people? Can they sell it as an action movie to young men, and a family movie to families, and a religious movie to what they're calling the faith community?
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Meet Joe Black' is a gamble, ... It's a very, very expensive movie. It is trading almost entirely on the appeal of Brad Pitt. It's obviously going for an audience of women 25 and older, and hoping to get a lot of men and couples in there, too.
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