Titanic Review by Jessica Film Junkie (4.5 Stars)

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Directed By
James Cameron

Written By:
James Cameron

Cast:
Kate Winslet, Leonardo DiCaprio, Billy Zane, Kathy Bates, Frances Fisher, Gloria Stuart, Jonathan Hyde, Danny Nucci, David Warner, Bill Paxton, Bernard Hill, Victor Garber, Suzy Amis, Bernard Fox, Jenette Goldstein, Seth Adkins

Titanic (1997)

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Movie Review by Jessica Film Junkie
March 9th, 2007

Sorry, Folks, I Love It.

This is a Kate Winslet movie.
Put that Dicaprio lad in the background and follow the story of a woman, Rose, pushed into a life she doesn't want by a controlling mother who is desperate not to lose the good life.
Frances Fisher is brilliant as Winslet's crazed mother with one of my favorite lines ever: "We're women, our choice are never easy".
Billy Zane is insanely sexy as Rose's fiancee who treats her like a chess piece in the Machiavellian life/game he has planned. He smolders and fumes, chasing her as the symbol of a world that will not be contained by his authority.
Kathy Bates is hilarious and refreshing as the Unsinkable Molly Brown, she offers Dicaprio's Jack the one kind hand of all the upper classes and offers a very different kind of woman from Fisher's control-freak and Winslet's love-lorn searcher.
Winslet owns this film with a passion she will perfect in later roles. She needs to escape and it is less about Jack himself, but more about the life beneath those upper class decks, the life of drink, dance, sex and real joy. She proves herself a movie star in a great performance.
The film as a whole is made for the masses, this is a big Hollywood movie, with glitz, glamour and impossible love. Some of the CGI seems dated now and I can't stand that Celine Dion song, but for the most part this is a story about love as a sinking ship, not the ship itself.
And I am okay with that.

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