The movie presents itself as a stack of character studies, but the leads are constructed from layers of impassive cool, and the roles for women a shrink, an old flame are comically fleeting.
Okay, maybe not everyone, some just want to stay in touch with their kids halfway across the country, or meet new people with common interests, or reconnect with a pal from elementary school, or keep tabs at their own risk on an old flame, or support a political cause.
He comes alive only in sex scenes with Kurylenko and with an old flame, a rancher played by Rachel McAdams.
The next time she and Johnny are slurping some frozen milk she asks for the story, and Johnny reveals that Sally was his old flame, a college sweetheart who has long since lost the sweetness and acquired a whip (the accessory of choice for anyone in her rather dominating profession).
But the journey becomes a moody trek to contact his old flame Daisy (Chloe Sevigny).
Based on the money that has flowed into bond funds lately, apparently a lot of investors have rekindled that old flame for coupons.
No one is more ambitious than Gatsby himself, who has made himself into a zillionaire for the sole purpose of enticing his old flame to leave her husband and come back to him.
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Laetitia plans to see her parents there but has a secret agenda to rekindle the memory of an old flame she calls the Shady Sailor.
When he opened the back door, he saw that the old kitchen house had turned into a windblown orange fireball, streamers of flame running toward him through the grass.
Johnny is about to be a father, Gus is a suave man yet to settle down and Linville is a young man initially more focused on his work though soon to meet an old flame.
Shortly after the end of the Second World War, a reporter named Jake Geismer (George Clooney) returns to Berlin, where he meets an old flame named Lena Brandt (Cate Blanchett).
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