So maybe The English Patient winning Best Picture over Fargo isn’t as tragic as aliens blowing up the White House, a tornado destroying a drive-in movie theater, Nicholas Cage in an action movie or, say, a presidential election leading us into global economic meltdown, but it isn’t that far behind.
The year that launched Mel Gibson as a director to be reckoned with did have one small bright side. With movies like Toy Story and A Little Princess, it was a the year Hollywood stopped making kids movies that talked down to kids. If only it had also been the year Gibson stopped making movies.





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