Top cast:Edwin August,Blanche Sweet,Mabel Normand
Director:Frank Darabont
Genre:Sci-Fi
Region:Nigeria
Year:2002
Storyline:presents Victor Hugo's Immortal Classic The Hunchback of Notre Dame" - to the sound of the Notre Dame Cathedral's bell ringing.Immediately, she intuitively senses that he isn't a sick man: "At first I didn't know you.I thought you were sick...You aren't sick, are you?...Why, Uncle Charlie, you're not sick.That was the funniest thing." The rest of the family greets Uncle Charlie and march toward the car with his heavy luggage - the self-satisfied uncle follows behind and takes out one of his phallic cigars.He admitted that he "enjoyed it" and was carried away by "how good it felt." Now, Jor-El's son had been "revealed to the world" -- but he was cautioned to keep his "secret identity" for two reasons: he couldn't serve humanity 24 hours a day, and because his enemies would discover that the only way to hurt him would be by "hurting the people you care for.[Note: Hiller had passed up the opportunity to work onThe Godfather (1972)to make this film.] The melodramatic and ragic soap-opera, tremendously popular and a financial success (the top-earning film of the year at $106 million) but panned by critics for its sappy content, was based upon Erich Segal's # 1 best-selling short novel of the same name, released appropriately on Valentine's Day in 1970.