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Naturally he evoked the image of spunky Mama Lillian, cackling at her boy over the phone that she couldn't talk "until the ball game was over" on television. "Just as young as ever," according to her proud son, the wrinkled first mother hasn't lost a step in the last 14 years, since she went to India for the Peace Corps at age 68. Next, Carter praised Rose Kennedy, the 90-year-old Massachusetts matriarch, who he said "epitomizes the meaning of a family and the meaning of faith." Nods and smiles all around, from young and old, both...
East Yard: Matthew McEvoy, anthony G. Brown, Rodney L. Greene, John R. Schmiedel, Sue E. Brown, Benjamin M. Mattlin, and Mary Lillian Walker...
...movie's most effective scenes, a confrontation between father and son (Michael O'Keefe) punches home the family's problems. As his wife, Lillian (Blythe Danner), and the rest of the family watches, Metchum reveals the ugliness of his desire, his will, his need to win when the refuses to admit defeat in a game of basketball against his son. After playing dirty in the first place, he taunts his son for being a sissy, a homosexual, and a girl, because the boy will not continue to keep playing until the father wins. Meechum shoves his wife to the ground...
...Miss Lillian, mother of Jimmy, Billy, Gloria and Ruth: "Sometimes when I look at all my children, I say to myself, 'Lillian, you should have stayed a virgin...
...seriously. It presents the viewer with people he can take home with him, because they were always there. Lewis John Carlino has adapted Pat Conroy's novel without much cinematic grace, but the artlessness serves the subject and showcases three splendid performances: Blythe Banner as the willowy, resilient Lillian Meechum; Michael O'Keefe as 18-year-old Ben, his father's cross and joy; and, above all, Robert Duvall as the raging Bull-sacred monster, gung-ho dinosaur, one-man nuclear-family holocaust-who can do everything except express what he feels for the people he loves...