(For instance, I can't bear any plot that includes unjust accusation. You wouldn't believe how often unjust accusation pops up in books, movies, plays, and TV).
Its fairy-tale plot bore almost no relation to reality.
The backyard plot bore beans, tomatoes, mustard greens -- the last an important ingredient in sinigang, a tangy soup of Mr. Lopez's native Philippines.
The other reversed a similar ruling against a prosecutor who had written a novel whose plot bore similarities to a second pending case.
Back in 2007 Gone Baby Gone, the Boston-set crime drama he made with his older brother Ben at the helm, was pulled from the London Film Festival because its plot bore a close resemblance to the kidnapping of Madeleine McCann.
The plot bore certain similarities to Bret Easton Ellis's novel Glamorama, resulting in an out-of-court settlement, but it's essentially a string of glorious set pieces – notably David Bowie refereeing a "walk-off" between our heroes.
The release of "Phone Booth," scheduled for November 2002, was postponed by 20th Century Fox because the film's plot bore too close a resemblance to the sniper attacks then unfolding around Washington. "Phone Booth" is scheduled to be released on April 4.
James Berardinelli, reviewing the film in 1996, felt that the pace dragged and the plot bore too close a resemblance to the original series episode "The Changeling", but considered the start and end of the film to be strong.
When "The Flick" premièred, at Playwrights Horizons, some patrons angrily fled midway through, exasperated by the slow pace and small-bore plot.
He explained that the pieces of paper bore ideas for future plot twists.
But Holling thinks he has the last laugh: "It turned out that Mrs. Baker's strategy didn't work after all!... Her nefarious plot to bore me to death failed again, because 'The Tempest' was even better than 'The Merchant of Venice.'" During those Wednesday Shakespeare sessions Schmidt cleverly highlights the plot twists most likely to grab young readers.
