Word: earnest
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Early in this well-intended and very earnest movie, the heroine, Nicole (Nathalie Nell), is proceeding peacefully along a country road at twilight. Abruptly she is pushed from her motorbike by one of the occupants of a closed van, abducted to a lonely place and then raped by all four of the men in the truck. This scene is long and harrowing, brutal and humiliating, and feminist Director Bellon does not blink at showing us, in excruciating detail, every moment of Nicole's ordeal. Indeed, one comes to admire the fortitude of Actress Nell in playing a scene that...
...menu of "that Scottish place" MacDonald's, his visionary inventor is quite appealing. He perpetually exhibits what Amy calls a "little-boy-lost look", aided by his slight figure that contrasts nicely with Warner's hulking frame. As the heroine, Mary Steenburgen balances the comic and the earnest aspects of her character well, making a consistent personality out of Amy's alternate bouts of flightiness and feminism...
Behind the scenes, Paul Kirk, a Washington attorney who is a longtime friend of Kennedy's, started coordinating campaign activities. Young activists with dreams of Camelot II sought him out for jobs. One of the dilemmas facing a Kennedy campaign is what to do about all the earnest amateurs who have started draft-Kennedy movements around the country. As an experienced professional wedded to the old ways of doing business, Kennedy wants to place professionals in charge of local groups, but he does not want to bruise feelings. The draft movements also offer financial advantages. As long as they...
...since Fred Allen and Jack Benny went at each other on the radio has broadcasting seen such a feud. But whereas Allen and Benny were friends who fought for laughs, Johnny Carson and NBC President Fred Silverman are in earnest. The outcome of their battle will affect both men's careers and the immediate future of an ailing NBC. Last week they took their dispute to a Los Angeles judge, who must decide whether Carson has a valid contract with the network...
...confident, even when things are running a bit thin, that good stuff will be along shortly. Adolescents are flocking to Brian, as if it were another Animal House. But it is a richer, funnier, more daring film - too good to be left solely to the kids. Maybe all the earnest protests will attract those who need it most: adults who have not had their basic premises offended, and therefore have not examined them, in too long. -Richard Schnickel