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...girls get married and change their names," says Ruth Graham, "but the boys are stuck with Graham." Franklin (William Franklin III), 41, and Ned (Nelson Edman), 35, caused their parents anguish in their rebellious search for what Ruth calls "their own identities." But now that their period of rebellion is over, the question is whether one might reprise his father's role when Billy passes from the evangelical scene...
Starting in high school, Ned confesses, he became "infatuated with the drug subculture," using marijuana, LSD and mescaline. "When you're the child of a famous person," says Franklin, who had his own bouts with heavy drinking, "you're measured by a different scale. You can get mad and fight it, or you can learn to accept it." Their father, biding his time, eventually reminded each son of his and Ruth's love, warning that "Satan is wanting to control your life, and there is a battle going on for your soul." Franklin and Ned surrendered to Billy...
...another scene, Lana conspires in a public park with her lover (and car mechanic) to kill Ned in the one absurdly unlikely way that would triple her life insurance collection. To prevent other park visitors from overhearing their plot, they start speaking in Yiddish (with subtitles for the audience). After a few sentences are exchanged, the man sitting next to them on the bench indicates that he has been following the whole conversation by reading the subtitles...
Outside of its parody of Hollywood suspense films, "Fatal Instinct" even attempts to ridicule, among other things, the law and our lawsuit-happy society. When Ned discovers that his wife tried to kill someone trying to kill him, Ned the detective arrests her, and then Ned the lawyer defends her. Reiner then takes "Court TV'"s commercialization of justice to its absurd, perhaps plausible limit: law as a spectator-sport, with commentators, whistle-blowers and half-times...
...times the movie's antics and silliness get repetitive and infantile, as when, in the same courtroom scene, Ned continually hurls new evidence at the bailiff as if it were a football. The movie also disappointingly borrows certain "Naked Gun" gimmicks, like having Ned's hair freeze in the direction the wind blew it during a car ride...