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Actors: Haley Joel Osment, Whoopi Goldberg, Gerard Depardieu
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| Review Summary and Plot Commentary about Bogus |
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Albert's mother, a magician's assistant, is killed in a car crash. The seven-year-old wants to stay with the circus and learn to be a magician, but is sent to New Jersey to live with his godmother Harriet Franklin. Harriet, a driven businesswoman, is reluctant to be his guardian and only accepts to keep her friend's son out of the foster care system.
Travelling alone on the plane, Albert draws a face which starts to talk to him, asking him to make its nose and eyes bigger. Then it grows into a gentle French giant who introduces himself as Bogus. Bogus tries to reassure Albert that his unknown godmother may be "stupendous... the best godmother in the world". Unfortunately she doesn't make a good first impression when she is late picking him up at the airport. Nor does she when she complains loud and long about the traffic and the traffic warden who gives her a ticket, but Bogus provides a comforting presence.
The no-nonsense Harriet who is used to living alone finds it hard to cope with the sullen grieving boy who talks to himself and keeps practising card tricks. She is baffled by the imaginary friend who seems to fill Albert's thoughts. For Albert Bogus makes New Jersey magical and he is not interested in making other friends. But he must come out of his shell sometime and surprisingly it is Bogus who helps his godmother to win him round.
--Maureen Evans, Resident Scholar
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| Analysis of Bogus |
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Plot
Time/era of movie:
- 1980's-1999
Kids growing up/acting up?
Yes
Parent(s) gone?
- Orphan story
Age group
- trouble in grade school
Main Character
Identity:
- Male
Age:
- a kid
Eccentric:
Yes
Hair color?
- brunette (Brown)
Hair type
- (man) short/standard straight
Body type
- (man) average
Events of movie makes character more...
- happy
Ethnicity/Nationality
- White (American)
How sensitive is this character?
- middling sensitive to others' feelings
Intelligence
- Average intelligence
Secondary Main Character
Identity:
- Male
Hair color
- brunette (Brown)
Hair style
- (man) long girliemon hair
Body type
- (man) muscular
How much in movie?
- 80%
Ethnicity/Nationality
- French
Main Adversary
Identity:
- Female
Age:
- 40's-50's
Profession/status:
- business executive
How much of work is main antagonist actually present in:
- 80%
Hair color
- brunette (Black)
Hair type
- (woman) medium/shoulderlgn curly
Body type
- (woman) ample chest and buttocks
Ethnicity/Nationality
- Black
How sensitive is this character?
- hard edged
Sense of humor
- Mostly serious with occasional humor
Intelligence
- Smarter than most other characters
Physique
- average physique
Setting
United States
Yes
The US:
- Northeast
City?
Yes
Style
Accounts of torture and death?
- moderately detailed references to deaths
Movie makes you feel...
- encouraged
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