Word: mulling
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Dates: during 1980-1980
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This is a small, frail movie, but it grapples honestly with some archetypal adolescent problems. It also contains some decent comedy involving Clifford's family - his father (Martin Mull) as a harassed hotel manager, his grandmother (Ruth Gordon) as a dotty eccentric. Actor-Producer Tony Bill, in his directorial debut, gets good use out of his Chicago locations, and he has an unmushy view of teen-age life. Grownups may feel a trifle odd stepping up to the box office for this one if unescorted by a child but, with one along, may find surprising dividends. My Bodyguard...
...Dubuque. Most of the characters are whining, repressed squares who, at heart, disapprove of free sex, drugs, divorce and teenagers. For some reason, they are all trapped in Marin County against their will. When, after 90 long minutes, some of them flee, the film makers are overjoyed. Hero Martin Mull's retreat from an orgy to Wife Tuesday Weld is described in the same terms that Hollywood once used to celebrate the virtue of Doris...
...mother's cow for the beans that grew into the giant's beanstalk. Possible comeback: But he didn't pay the giant.) Does Jack succeed because of magic, good luck or his own efforts? (The story includes some evidence of all three.) The students also mull over different characterizations of Jack and the giant in two different versions of the story...
...what had happened? How could the skilled diplomatic bureaucracy of a superpower mull over a highly sensitive document for nearly a month, scrutinizing each word, and then cast its vote in error? Because of a communications gap between Washington and its U.N. Ambassador in New York? Or between the President and his Secretary of State? Carter's explanation was not only lame but incredible. With one swift stroke, he had destroyed the growing notion, so carefully cultivated in this election year, of acting calmly and shrewdly on foreign policy matters...