Shining Through

Enticing from the beginning as an unconventional job "interview" and eye openning clock and dagger identity maze. Brillantly played by Melanie Griffith, Michael Douglas, Iaam Neelson and the rest of the cast developing their characters with skill through their dark secrets... Full review

A novel turned movie that is truely dazzling. I couldnt believe the electricity potrayed by the actors. Most directors couldn't bring a novel to life such like this one. A MUST see.... Full review

The only thing in this world more annoying than Melanie Griffith is Melanie Griffith in a boring movie like this one. If your smart you'll avoid it like the plague.... Full review

If you can't get any sleep, just start watching this movie. You will be snoring in no time. How anyone can take Melanie Griffith seriously is a mystery to me.... Full review

The movie Shining Through stars Michael Douglas and Melanie Griffith. MG is a secretary who discovers that her boss is a spy. They soon fall in love with each other (oh, why am I not surprised? :-) Soon, WW2 breaks out... Full review

This is a wonderful movie, Melony Grifith is greqat the part when douglas comes in the uso with another woman I am a macho guy who never crys I had tears in my eyes for her beside that its just a... Full review

i like it i wish she wouldve gotten with the fiennes actor guy...oh well darn the nazi in him!!! Melanie was actually believable, and I loved the story line. It's cool seeing the war fromm that point of view, not that... Full review

This is my favorite movie of all time. It has everything I like, history, love story and two great actors. If you don't like this movie then you are crazy, and blind.... Full review

at first I thought it was just a film about war but as the movie goes further you wouldn't want to missed every second of it.A love story that shows being loyal to your loved one gives credit in the end.... Full review

this was truly an academy award performance for melanie griffith.....and should have given her the prize for her outstanding work.......a truly magnificent movie.......with a touch of old hollywood....the good guys win......and for michael douglas....he never had such a beauty to work... Full review

Shining Through is the most flagrant offender of this kind that I've seen so far. Shining Through is told as the proud flashback of Melanie Griffith's character, Linda Voss, leading us to think that this is perhaps a true story. ... Full Review

Shining Through " is such an insult to the intelligence....But there is never any believable romantic chemistry between Griffith and Douglas....Here is a film in which scene after scene is so implausible....there's a hilarious scene in which she flees, frightened, through the city streets in a red opera cloak....The movie is told in flashbacks, for no good reason, with an elderly, agonizingly coy Griffith recalling her story for a BBC interviewer..... ... Full Review

Shining Through fails as an espionage thriller, but also as a romance.....Griffith can't muster enough charisma for us to believe.... ... Full Review

Shining Through lacks the spark that would propel it into the stand-up-and-cheer type of war/romance film it so obviously was meant to be..... ... Full Review

With every "new wave" in cinema, there's always a past. In conjunction with the Romanian Cultural Institute of New York , the Film Society hosts Shining Through a Long, Dark Night: Romanian Cinema, Then and Now , a look at... ... Full Article

624 2-20-92 What's this -- everybody's favorite working girl, Melanie Griffith, chirping.Shining Through as troops of Nazi soldiers goose-step past her?Never fear. In this lavish film version of Susan Isaacs's bestselling 1988 novel , Griffith has been cannily... ... Full Article

Kewpie-doll voiced Melanie Griffith does a sexed-up Nancy Drew turn in David Seltzer's adaptation of Susan Issacs' novel Shining Through. Set during World war II, Griffith plays Linda Voss, a spunky New York girl who applies for a job with... ... Full Article