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The other day I perused my local video store looking for a good drama. Not so much a tear-jerker, but, as my grandma would always say, 'Something with a good story.' After looking through countless slasher films and movies about fast cars and explosions, I reluctantly ended up in the foreign section looking at French films.

Although "Died Young, Stayed Pretty," a documentary about the underground rock poster movement, begins with a freewheeling array of diverting poster graphics and provocative artist interviews, it soon becomes apparent that there's no real structure or point of view to it all.

"Looking for Palladin," from Polish-born writer-director Andrzej Krakowski , pits 1960s movie star Jack Palladin , who fled the high life and personal problems for anonymity in Antigua, Guatemala, against eager-beaver Hollywood agent Josh , charged with luring him back home for a million-dollar-cameo payday.

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Ben Gazzara's portrayal of Jack Palladin, a long-retired two-time Oscar-winning actor living in Guatemala, lends critical weight to Andrzej Krakowski's "Looking for Palladin," a semicoherent, overacted melange of travelogue, farce and suds.

Finding Ben Gazzara in a heartfelt role!!! Thursday, October 29, 2009 Reviewed by Shelli Sonstein - Clear Channel This is a movie for adults- the kind Hollywood rarely makes anymore- a movie about the life and relationship choices we make in life.

Posthumously-produced bio-pic chronicles the Prince of Pop's final days as cobbled from interviews with close friends and colleagues and from footage shot while he rehearsed for his sold-out series of London comeback concerts.

Looking for Palladin Running time 115 minutes Written and directed by Andrzej Krakowski Starring Ben Gazzara, Talia Shire, David Moscow, Pedro ArmendA riz Jr.