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...Crimson trailed 1-0 at the half on a UMass goal that typified the home team's level of play. As a Crimson fullback was sending the ball back to goalie Phil Coogan, Zuckerman interceded for UMass and tapped the ball into an open...
...Willie and Phil--abandoned by Jeannette who has fallen in love with a Russian immigrant taxi driver--eventually get married, have children and live "very ordinary lives." This flimsy, tacked-on ending resolves nothing. What happens to Jeannette? Does she have an ordinary life? Why doesn't Mazursky answer these questions? Does he know...
Some of the movie's difficulty lies in the acting, though only Ontkean as Willie fails entirely. He portrays this rich and challenging character vapidly, as if he's not even in the movie. Sharkey comes on like gangbusters, and his boisterous Phil might be trying to wake Ontkean from his deep sleep. Sharkey has the funniest lines in the film and delivers them well...
...like Jeannette, Mazursky's most intriguing yet incomplete character, at the outset. She flirts her way into our hearts in Washington Square Park. Soon, however, we realize that she's involved in her relationships with Willie and Phil only because they make her feel good. Unthinking and selfish, she doesn't make us care...
...ATTEMPT to put the Seventies on screen as the major character, Mazursky has left too many questions unanswered. His movie about seeking leaves his audience searching, but there is nothing to find. The people in Willie and Phil do not provoke or stimulate. The resolution of this film that attempts to capture a decade is ultimately as empty as its characters. Clearly, this is not Mazursky at his best. Clearly, this is not a right triangle...