Word: film
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...also managed to devote time and resources to a wide range of services and businesses. It runs hospitals and clinics, dispenses social security benefits, sponsors trade unions and even associations for writers, poets and painters. It maintains 35 small factories that produce clothing, blankets, furniture and toys and a film center...
...love affairs go, America's passion for the convertible has been low key but enduring. From the dawn of the auto age, the sleek stargazing ragtops have symbolized youth, fun and sun. Generations of couples romanced at drive-ins in their back seats, while film starlets and Presidents were photographed proudly sitting behind their steering wheels. But convertibles never accounted for a large slice of Detroit's market; and they finally were killed by air conditioning, increasing vandalism and high-speed driving on interstate freeways. One by one, the big automakers stopped building them. The last U.S.-made...
...another pretty face: a pleasant, inoffensive actor who is just right for light entertainments like Chapter Two. It is brave enough for him to play the leading role that of an inarticulate factory workerin Hide in Plain Sight, since it is the kind of small, sober film no agent would regard as a good career move." But this is also Caan's debut as a director. To choose this true story of a man trying to find and then recover his children, who have been abducted by no less an institution than the U.S. Government, shows...
...picture is very well played at every level. Jill Eikenberry as Hacklin's second wife manages to make an impact playing an essentially shy, sweet woman. Indeed that is pretty much the way of this film. It tugs gently at one's sleeve. There is not a more satisfactory moment to be seen now on any screen than Hacklin's reunion with his children. One does not cheer, but one leaves the theater feeling just fine...
...that Mazursky did not buy the movie rights to McFadden's book. Instead, they went to Sidney Beckerman, a producer whose credits include the legendary film desecration of Portnoy's Complaint. Next to Serial, Portnoy seems like an earnest failure. Not only is McFadden's cool point of view lost, but so are her satirical targets. Though Serial is set in the present-day San Francisco suburbs, it might as well unfold in '50s Dubuque. Most of the characters are whining, repressed squares who, at heart, disapprove of free sex, drugs, divorce and teenagers. For some...