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When Fail Safe opened in October 1964, it garnered excellent reviews, but its box-office performance was poor. Its failure rested with the similarity between it and the nuclear war satire Dr. Strangelove, which had appeared in theaters first, in January 1964.
Fail Safe is a 2000 televised broadcast play, based on Fail-Safe, the Cold War novel by Eugene Burdick and Harvey Wheeler.The play, broadcast live in black and white on CBS, starred George Clooney, Richard Dreyfuss, Harvey Keitel, and Noah Wyle, and was one of the few live dramas on American television since its Golden Age in the 1950s and 1960s.
Bruce Almighty: It was banned for imaging God as an ordinary man and is deemed blasphemous to Islam. The ban was lifted four years later with the 18-PL rating. [17] [18] 2004 The Passion of the Christ: The film's viewing was restricted solely to adult Christian viewers. [6] 2005 Brokeback Mountain: Banned for its "favorable" depiction of ...
Thomas Peter Shadyac (born December 11, 1958) is an American director, producer, and writer. The youngest joke-writer ever for comedian Bob Hope, [1] Shadyac is widely known for writing and directing the comedy films Ace Ventura: Pet Detective, The Nutty Professor, Liar Liar, Patch Adams, and Bruce Almighty.
Bruce Almighty is a 2003 American fantasy comedy film directed by Tom Shadyac and written by Steve Koren, Mark O'Keefe and Steve Oedekerk.The film stars Jim Carrey as Bruce Nolan, a down-on-his-luck television reporter who complains to God (played by Morgan Freeman) that he is not doing his job correctly and is offered the chance to try being God himself for one week.
The Magical Negro is a supporting stock character in fiction who, by means of special insight or powers often of a supernatural or quasi-mystical nature, helps the white protagonist get out of trouble.
Fail-Safe Investing, a 1999 finance book by Harry Browne; Failsafe (UK band), a Preston-based punk rock band "Failsafe", a 2007 song by the New Pornographers, from the album Challengers. This song was first released by The Choir Practice in their The Choir Practice (album) "Fail Safe" (Stargate SG-1), an episode of the science fiction ...
i.e. a piece of equipment should fail into a safe condition. Which means that the film's title is probably a wry joke; the system fails deadly. -Ashley Pomeroy 01:24, 27 February 2007 (UTC) 'Fail safe' originally comes from railways (US 'railroads') in the 19th century.