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...Homecoming's plot is familiar by now: a college professor in America (Michael Jayston) brings his wife (Vivien Merchant) back to London to meet his family: a malevolent patriarch (Paul Rogers), a fey uncle (Cyril Cusack) and the patriarch's two unmarried sons-an aspiring boxer (Terence Rigby) and a seedily elegant hoodlum type (Ian Holm). The professor separates himself from his family and stands aside as his wife is drawn into it. It would seem that the men humiliate her, but she thrives on their abusive attentions. Indeed, by taunting and captivating each of them sexually...
...engage the pesky French Admiral Villeneuve. Lady Hamilton insists that her feelings must come before the welfare of the Empire. Her wiles prove so alluring that Nelson opts for permanent shore leave at his country estate in Surrey. But then Nelson's Flag Captain Hardy (Michael Jayston) pops up to press Nelson back into service. Villeneuve must be engaged at Cadiz, Hardy splutters, else Britain will be in great peril...
...grandiloquent, a trap that Rattigan's script sets for him at every turn. Because Jackson is an eminently subtle actress, her Emma Hamilton is not merely a creature of fire, but a vulnerability imperfectly concealed beneath layers of scar tissue. The supporting actors are stalwart, except for Michael Jayston, who suffers from a kind of congenital insipidity...
...doesn't seem that such a relationship can endure, although we are made to endure every cloying moment of it in The Public Eye. He (Michael Jayston) is a highly paid English tax accountant; she (Mia Farrow), a slightly wilted California flower child marooned in London en route home from Katmandu. They first meet in a restaurant, where she is a waitress, when she accidentally spills chicken with caramel sauce all over his proper blue suit. She is breezily apologetic. He is unaccountably enchanted...
...main characters also suffer from this cardboard figure effect. Michael Jayston and Janet Suzman are extremely good in the title roles, but one doesn't believe they were quite as shallow and naive as their lines indicate. One also wishes that the screenwriter had not put so many "Nicky" and "Sunny" references in the script; even though Nicholas II was a weak monarch not everyone could have had the audacity to call the Tsar of all the Russians "Nicky." Even Haldeman, Kissinger and Mitchell have admitted that they always call Nixon "Mr. President," never "Dick...