41.   Based on a true story, the movie has modest charms despite its thrill-inhibiting premise.

42.   Based on the complex David Mamet play about planning a heist of a rare buffalo-head nickel, the movie has a cast of three.

43.   Beneath its hard comic surface, the movie has an undertow of sadness, since Peter and Melanie are at loggerheads over whether to have children.

44.   Berkowitz also comes under fire from his financial backer, a foul-mouthed producer, Elie Samaha, who wants the movie to have more skin and less gab.

45.   Besides the history, which is cursorily sketched, the movie has little else to grab on to.

46.   Big movies have advertising budgets that run into the millions of dollars.

47.   Boos were reported at some screenings, and the movie inspired one California entertainment journalist to write an entire column about how movies should have endings.

48.   Both movies have epic naval battles and that furious chariot race, which in the later film has been called the greatest action sequence ever.

49.   A complete facial remake is not yet as simple as science fiction and spy movies would have you believe.

50.   All movies should have this problem.