Word: clueless
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...needs while submerging their own, yet find a romantic reward. The enchanted viewer is rewarded too: by subtle ensemble acting, writing that understands the void that tactful conversation fills, direction (by Roger Michell and Ang Lee, respectively) that finds the hidden hungers of the cautious soul. Honorable mention to Clueless, the Emma of Beverly Hills High...
This year, though, a lot more people are paying to see that once endangered species, women's pictures--and not always out of a sense of sacrifice. The summer movie season, usually a men-only province, was commandeered by a phalanx of women: teen dream Alicia Silverstone (Clueless), lonely heartthrob Sandra Bullock (While You Were Sleeping and The Net), ex-Marine schoolteacher Michelle Pfeiffer (Dangerous Minds) and a feminist princess named Pocahontas. Right now, with How to Make an American Quilt, Now and Then and Home for the Holidays, the plexes are awash in sisterhood cinema. And male moviegoers aren...
...There are many more women in decisionmaking seats at the big studios and in directors' chairs on the set. Penny Marshall, the first woman director to have a flourishing Hollywood career (Big, A League of Their Own) since Dorothy Arzner in the '30s, is joined by Amy Heckerling (Clueless), Gillian Armstrong (Little Women) and a dozen or so more. Trailblazing mogul-mama Sherry Lansing at Paramount has welcome competition in Laura Ziskin at Fox 2000 and Stacey Snider, Lucy Fisher and Lisa Henson at Sony. For once not all executive decisions can be made in the men's room. "Today...
...more of them will be hits. Twenty-two of this year's releases have earned at least $50 million at the box office. Nine of these had female protagonists: Pocahontas, Casper, While You Were Sleeping, Dangerous Minds, The Bridges of Madison County, Species, Clueless, The Net and Something to Talk About...
...approximate age of Soon-Yi Farrow Previn," notes critic Richard Corliss. This was the story of 1992's "Husbands and Wives," and it returns in this tale of a sportswriter with a pretty, peckish wife and a five-year-old adopted son. Allen's take on marriage is bleak, clueless; he sees it as a prison for two, where the condemned finally rise to a level of reciprocal pity. But in spite of all this, Allen still has his deft sense of humor: there's a good movie lurking behind his public troubles. "The suspicion lingers that Woody Allen deserves...