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Certain actors, like Travolta, are claimed by nearly everybody. Cannon got him his first TV role as an awkward kid with a sprained ankle in NBC's Emergency! Stalmaster got him his big break, the part of chief sweat-hog in ABC's Welcome Back, Kotter. Feinberg almost got him his first movie. She had him fly from New York to California to audition for Coppola's Godfather II. To no avail; Robby Benson was given the job, and then cut out in the editing room...
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While all the characters in Ormsby's script are stereotypes, he has endowed each of them with unusual depth. Only Makepeace's Clifford is awkward at times. He must be the wimp and the hero at once, a difficult role for any actor, and a task just beyond Makepeace's grasp. But Baldwin and Matt Dillon, as big bully Melvin Moody, are superb in roles no less difficult. As for the adults, Martin Mull and John Houseman appear fleetingly, and Ruth Gordon sticks to her tried-and-true role as a sex-hungry...
...TROUBLE is that DePalma, unlike Roeg, is uninterested in extending his technical inventions into the body of a film using them to invigorate and give meaning to a story's more casual, empty, expository sections. A good deal of the direction in Dressed to Kill appears awkward or perfunctory. Shot for shot, through patches of inaction and weaker stretches of suspense, the movie advances with a clumsy, prosaic quality--not unlike the flat-footed style of Kubrick's The Shining, which DePalma, in a recent interview, says he detests...