Two more beach movies

I totally forgot about two other movies we watched while vacationing.

Movie #1: Before the Devil Knows You're Dead. About halfway through this movie I thought "I wonder if they're going to manage to keep Marisa Tomei naked in every single scene she's in?" Sadly, that didn't happen. It was a good, if depressing, movie about a train wreck of a family involved in a train wreck of a robbery. It's one of those non-chronological overlapping various-points-of-view films, and it's handled pretty well, although not as well as something like, say, Amores Perros or (dare I say it?) Pulp Fiction. Overall, though, definitely recommended for the performances and the dialog. And Marisa Tomei.

Movie #2: Kiki's Delivery Service. It's been a while since the kids and I have watched this all the way through. Boy, I love this film. It's just such a sweet movie, with wonderful characters, an interesting alternative universe, and of course stellar animation. I'm not sure what else to say about it other than just watch it already. Not as surreal as some of Miyazaki's other films you may have seen (Totoro, Howl's Moving Castle, Spirited Away) but still a fantastic film.