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	::arlenehunt.com:: - Arlene Hunt, writer...
		Arlene Hunt is a unique voice in Irish crime fiction.
		Her second novel, False Intentions, introduced two characters, John and Sarah of QuicK Investigations, who are set to become a regular part of Arlene's work, and was published in May 2005.
		Arlene's 4th novel, and the third in the John and Sarah series, is called Missing presumed dead and will be published in June 2007.
	www.arlenehunt.com /about.php (171 words)

	Pay It Forward - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		When Arlene later tries to explain her choice to Eugene, the audience learns how Eugene's burns were the result of terrible child abuse by Eugene's father.
		Arlene feels that she must nevertheless give her ex husband another chance, but shortly thereafter he becomes angry and violent and it appears that he has not in fact stopped drinking alcohol.
		Terribly distraught, Arlene and Eugene are later watching a television news report about "pay it forward" and Trevor's death, and learn that the movement has grown nationwide.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Pay_It_Forward (828 words)

	SCREEN IT! PARENTAL REVIEW: PAY IT FORWARD
		We learn that Arlene is an alcoholic when she goes out into the garage and retrieves a bottle of liquor she had stashed in the washer and then drinks directly from it.
		Arlene later tells Eugene that she normally can't take off her shirt in front of a guy unless she has several beers in her, but that she wants to do so (without the beer) with him.
		Arlene states that her husband left months ago and that she doesn't know where he is.
	www.screenit.com /movies/2000/pay_it_forward.html (2588 words)

	The Source: Video Clip Ideas (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-10)
		Arlene comes to a point in the movie where she is compelled to follow her son's example and help someone in a way they can't help themself.
		Arlene seeks her mother out and basically tells her, "You know all the drinking, all the men, all the stuff that happened to me that shouldn't have.
		Arlene cut off relations with her mom because she was so mad for all the bad things, all the "unforgivable" things that had happened in her past.
	www.thesource4ym.com /videoclips/payitforward.asp?PrinterFriendly=True& (949 words)

	TheMovieBoy Review: Pay It Forward (2000)
		Had the emotionally wounded Arlene and Eugene struck up a friendship and, together, helped each other to come to terms with the problems and mistakes that they had made in their lives, the film would have been infinitely more effective than the melodramatic, totally unnecessary romance that comes to the forefront.
		Hunt, especially, has gone all out to present us with a decidedly unattractive portrayal of a woman who is torn between the love for her child and the addiction to alcohol that she can't seem to kick.
		Angie Dickinson (2000's "Duets") is a standout as Arlene's mother, a bag lady who is surprisingly satisfied with where her life is at, or just comes off that way to hide her pain and regret as both a mother and a person.
	www.themovieboy.com /reviews/p/00_payitforward.htm (808 words)

	The Popcorn Gallery: Pay It Forward (2000) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-10)
		Mother Arlene (Helen Hunt) works two jobs and is so close to falling off the wagon that she must be scraping pavement.
		That Hunt is able to portray Arlene as such a complex, troubled individual without engendering feelings of pity (or, for that matter, disgust) is somewhat remarkable.
		Hunt doesn't forget that, while Arlene is burdened by a tremendous number of issues, there is more to the character than just those issues.
	www.physics.mun.ca /~sps/movies/PayItForward.html (1003 words)

	Pay it Forward
		He horrifies Arlene by bringing a homeless man (James Caviezel, Frequency, Ride With the Devil) into their house as one of his good deeds.
		Arlene rushes off to yell at Simonet, and Trevor decides that he wants to set them up together.
		Hunt seriously deglamorized herself, putting on lots of tacky makeup and bleaching her hair, but it's hard not to imagine her as an Emmy and Oscar winning actress and a strung-out alcoholic.
	www.haro-online.com /movies/pay_it_forward.html (533 words)

	CANOE -- JAM! - Eyes forward
		Hunt admits she is not always this cool and confident.
		HuntÕs father Gordon Hunt is a director and acting coach.
		Her grandmother is a speech teacher and her mother Jane Hunt a photographer.
	jam.canoe.ca /Movies/Artists/H/Hunt_Helen/2000/10/14/pf-782750.html (670 words)

	Compare Prices and Read Reviews on Pay It Forward at Epinions.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-10)
		Arlene McKinney (Hunt), is another single American mother fighting to pay the bills by slaving away at her two places of employment - a strip club and a casino.
		Arlene is struggling with her own alcoholic demons, a habit Trevor is slowly trying to curb.
		If Hunt doesn't garner Oscar consideration for her portrayal of the alcoholic mother in this film, I'm not sure what else she could do to convince the Academy of her talents.
	www.epinions.com /mvie-review-4281-1334D01A-39EE9048-prod5 (1325 words)

	The Cavalier Daily
		But mucky as "Forward" was in its first incarnation, its tale of a well-meaning pre-teen whose extra credit project changes not only his life but the rest of the world was certainly a welcome dose of chicken soup for the well-intentioned soul.
		Arlene is a composite of characters we've already seen her play: romantic aggressor, alcoholic, strong struggling single mother.
		In one of the film's turning points, Arlene slaps Trevor, and the next several moments hinge on her remorseful reaction.
	www.cavalierdaily.com /CVArticle.asp?ID=6217&pid=642 (898 words)

	Pay It Forward
		Trevor's mother, Arlene (Helen Hunt), finds Jerry the next day and of course is shocked and not at all pleased, until she realizes that he has fixed her car and the money Trevor gave him helped him to get a job.
		Arlene is separated from her abusive husband because they both are drunks.
		Helen Hunt's performance is Oscar caliber, but with the iceberg size Titanic holes in this film, her performance almost deserves to not get that level of recognition.
	www.reelmoviecritic.com /2000/id628.htm (656 words)

	Orlando Weekly - Film Review - Pay It Forward (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-10)
		Trevor’s tough-but-vulnerable single mom, Arlene (Helen Hunt), is a bartender and recovering alcoholic.
		The former sitcom star easily conveys the psychic damage and complexities of a woman whose will to live seems to be driven by her love for her son.
		Arlene, Eugene and Grace are among those whose lives intersect through the path of young visionary Trevor.
	www.orlandoweekly.com /film/review.asp?rid=5246 (557 words)

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		Trevor lives with his mother Arlene (Helen Hunt) in a little house, his father (Jon Bon Jovi) left the family when he was younger.
		Arlene has two jobs to give her son a good life.
		Then Trevor tries to help Arlene to get a better life and go away from her alcoholism, he wants to couple her with his teacher Eugene, but this is impossible, because Eugene cannot come close to a woman, he has a very dark past and his body is halfburned...
	www.angelfire.com /celeb2/melvin_udall (1921 words)

	JoBlo reviews the movie "Pay It Forward"
		Helen Hunt gave a so-so performance (I wasn't thrilled with her work in Dr. T and The Women nor in Want Women Want), but she sold the idea.
		Yes, he made the most out of his thinly written character, as did Helen Hunt and Haley Joel Osment, and yes, there are a handful of genuinely affecting moments, but the film is just too sticky and sentimental to really work.
		Hunt and Spacey delivered their expected excellence and dealt with their own problems in a very believable manner and Osment is nothing short of phenomenal.
	www.joblo.com /payitforward.htm (3058 words)

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		Trevor's mom, Arlene (Helen Hunt in another amazing role), is a cashier in a seedy casino and a secret drunk to boot.
		Arlene struggles with her addiction, but she never lets it shipwreck her life with her son.
		When Trevor takes his idea to heart and brings a derelict home for breakfast and a shower, she runs to school to track down the teacher she fears is endangering her kid.
	www.centralmaine.com /happening/movies/rev0404.incl (604 words)

	Northwest Indiana News: nwitimes.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-10)
		Most people in town admit there is a deer problem and the hunt was an economical choice since it would not cost the town and removes it from a liability risk, he said.
		He said the state laws require that the deer that are hunted be harvested and utilized and many are donated to food banks.
		He said he believes hunting will be the first choice for the IDNR because they derive an income from the sale of hunters' licenses.
	www.thetimesonline.com /articles/2002/12/16/news/porter_county/9e387b493776733086256c900081bc83.txt (1278 words)

	IR // News // ‘I’m definitely a people person’ (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-10)
		With a voice as smooth as French silk pie, Arlene Hunt answers another of the hundreds of telephone calls that come through her switchboard each day.
		At home, Hunt keeps company with a growing menagerie of winged friends, including two canaries, two cockatiels, an Eastern Rosella long-tailed parakeet, two lovebirds and her most recent acquisitions — a pair of white doves.
		Hunt said most of her callers are courteous, but some can be irritable or nasty and just want to yell at someone on the other end of the telephone line.
	www.helenair.com /articles/2001/07/16/stories/helena/1a5.txt (924 words)

	Weekend: A disappointing payoff
		Eugene is a conscientious teacher with a body scarred by a tragedy revealed in the film's late rush of manipulation.
		Her first on-screen drink is a bottle chug Hunt uses to convey everything about her addiction.
		Hunt plays it plucky and melancholy, waiting for her next showcase scene.
	www.sptimes.com /News/101900/news_pf/Weekend/A_disappointing_payof.shtml (860 words)

	Manitou Messenger Online - A & L - Critic¹s Corner: Pay It Forward has engaging plot and well-known cast - Friday, ...
		Simonet, burned in some unknown incident, is attracted to Arlene McKinney, but doesn't allow himself to open up, even for her.
		Trevor finds all of his projects failing, including that of setting up his teacher and mother, and begins to believe that the entire world really is that screwed up.
		Hunt's character seems a mesh of her down-on-her-luck single mother from As Good as it Gets and Julia Roberts¹ Erin Brokovich.
	www.stolaf.edu /orgs/messenger/2000/102700/arts/criticscorner.html (758 words)

	A real-life Pretty Woman - Lifestyle, Frontpage - Independent.ie
		Arlene was not wanted by her mother, who was young, unmarried and working at three different jobs when she got pregnant.
		Her mother had been fostered herself, and when Arlene was three, she gave her to the daughter of her own foster parents.
		Arlene didn't have the greatest possible start in life, but life has more than made up for it now, she says, because it couldn't get any better.
	www.independent.ie /lifestyle/a-reallife-pretty-woman-479885.html (1915 words)

	"Pay It Forward" - Salon (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-10)
		A perfectly acceptable romance, with Kevin Spacey and Helen Hunt as wounded misfits who find each other in Las Vegas, gets fatally slimed by the parallel story of an angelic little kid (Haley Joel Osment, the tyke from "The Sixth Sense," playing Hunt's son) who sparks an underground altruism craze.
		Maybe cocktail waitress Arlene McKinney (Hunt) and schoolteacher Eugene Simonet (Spacey) would never have found each other without the intervention of Arlene's son, Trevor (Osment), a seventh-grader in Eugene's social studies class.
		Hunt has imported her "struggling single mom" shtick pretty much intact from "As Good as It Gets" (an awfully similar movie, truth be told) and it still works, though I'm not exactly sure why.
	dir.salon.com /story/ent/movies/review/2000/10/20/pay_it/print.xml (790 words)

	Pauline Books & Media / Publishing House
		His mother, Arlene (Helen Hunt) is an alcoholic waitress ("in recovery") who works in the casinos and in a strip-joint.
		Trevor is a Christ-like figure, Eugene the father, and Arlene, who is responsible for furthering Trevor's pay it forward scheme, is the breath and spirit of "the movement".
		While there are reminders to Hunt's inclination to "fall in love with obsessive - compulsive men" as she did in AS GOOD AS IT GETS, visual reminders of FIELD OF DREAMS and ERIN BROCHOVICH, PAY IT FORWARD goes beyond any Capra-esque quality we may tend to assign it at first.
	www.daughtersofstpaul.com /mediastudies/reviews/filmartpayitforward.html (1102 words)

	Pay It Forward. -A Hollywood Jesus Film Review
		It is here that Arlene, Trevor's unaware mother, discovers the homeless man. Arlene kicks him out and plans to talk to the teacher.
		Arlene, Kevin's mother, discovers that her son has been helping a homeless man. She comes to the school to find out what kind of teacher would assign such homework.
		It was definately refreshing to see Helen Hunt in a role where she is less than perfect.
	www.hollywoodjesus.com /pay_it_forward.htm (3865 words)

	The Diva's "Pay It Forward" Review
		Much to the chagrin of his mother Arlene (Helen Hunt), he brings the man in their home.
		This upsets Arlene to the point where she rushes to the school and confronts Eugene.
		Arlene tells Eugene that he doesn't know her son and that he will try until he does accomplish something.
	www.3blackchicks.com /kamspayit.html (954 words)

	Pay It Forward \| Abandoned Sites (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-10)
		Arlene is working two jobs and trying unsuccessfully to stay sober.
		Hunt plays her usual lower-class heroine, and Spacey stretches somewhat to portray the haunted and awkward Simonet.
		By turns powerful and measured, the performances of Spacey, Hunt, and Osment can't make up for the many missteps in a screenplay that sanitizes the look of the lower-middle class and expects us to believe that homeless alcoholics and junkies speak in the elevated manner of grad students.
	www.hat.net /abs/node/2135 (1046 words)

	washingtonpost.com: Entertainment Guide
		His mother, Arlene (Hunt), an alcoholic barmaid who has little time for her son, is none too pleased with this arrangement.
		So, with her trashy perm in full warrior array, Arlene storms into Simonet's classroom, only to meet an intellectual teacher who runs rings around her limited vocabulary and whose disfigured face bespeaks some horrible tragedy from the past.
		And although Hunt essentially plays a variation of the Real Gal role she did in "As Good as It Gets" and "Dr. T and the Women," she's immensely likable.
	www.washingtonpost.com /wp-srv/entertainment/movies/reviews/payitforwardhowe.htm (731 words)

	Phoenix - Movies - Milk of Human Blindness
		Arlene, enraged by what she perceives as Eugene's indirect meddling in her unhappy tract house, lets her rigid nipples lead her to the lair of the exceedingly eloquent but emotionally shielded teacher.
		Topping the bill, Hunt is willing to spend half the movie looking like a train wreck, and it's to her credit that she actually manages to hypnotize us into buying her as a working-class bimbo, not just expensive A-list meat dressed up as a fake prole.
		When Eugene explains to Arlene, from experience, that all a father needs to do to destroy a child is simply to not love him, the resonance haunts the theater.
	www.phoenixnewtimes.com /Issues/2000-10-19/film/film_full.html (1731 words)

	Jigsaw Lounge - Pay It Forward
		It’s also extremely troubling that the film’s one genuinely risky act of generosity - Arlene giving her husband one more chance when he ‘unexpectedly’ turns up at just the wrong moment after so many years away - is held up as a heinous ‘mistake’ for which Arlene is made to suffer.
		To be fair, the book’s scope may well have been greater and more convincing - but that still doesn’t excuse the script’s shocking shallowness of the characterisation, the muddiness of the dual timeframe, the predictability of the visible-a-mile-off ‘tragic ending’ and the jaw-dropping schmaltz of the candle-light coda.
		Simonet is pointlessly verbose - he ‘only has words’ - which means he gets to patronise Arlene by explaining some arcane term she’s already familiar with, and he gives a truly nonsensical reason (his ‘routine’) for resisting Trevor’s meddling attempts at matchmaking.
	www.jigsawlounge.co.uk /film/payitforward2.html (1168 words)

	"Pay It Forward" / a review from Christian Spotlight on the Movies
		Arlene is distanced from her son by her alcoholism and chronic bad decision making.
		Hunt's character dresses life Erin Brockovich in many scenes, including two or so scenes where she is seen in her bra.
		Yes, it is sad to see a story of a group of people who are caught up in the evil of the world, who've probably been exposed only to endless cycles of abuse and never to the love of Jesus.
	www.christiananswers.net /spotlight/movies/2000/payitforward.html (2030 words)

	Pay it forward
		Arlene McKinney (HELEN HUNT) is a single mother hanging on by her fingertips, working two jobs, and struggling to raise her son, Trevor (HALEY JOEL OSMENT).
		Similarly, a key scene involving Arlene and Grace was set in a makeshift homeless encampment where the only light amidst the rubble of discarded neon signs came from campfires.
		Hunt will be seen this holiday season in "Castaway," opposite Tom Hanks; Paramount Pictures’ "What Women Want," with Mel Gibson," and in the forthcoming independent film "Dr. T and the Women," directed by Robert Altman.
	rose22.tripod.com /pay3.htm (5678 words)

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