Word: plot
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Ninotchka. And, in Hugo's great moments of choice, the two women become the primal forces between which Hugo must choose. Jessica is now Milton's Delilah, just as Olga is the hard-nosed Lady in Comus. Dirty Hands is a relentless moral treatise and a superficial "plot...
...alcoholic who gave up the practice of law when a man he had successfully defended proved to be guilty of a horrible crime. Unfortunately, Lowry never got around to filling in the details of this crucial episode in Llewelyn's life. An assortment of character sketches and plot shards adhere to a rather slack narrative line that draws Llewelyn and his wife Jacqueline through a portentous search for a new home...
...musical about young love and philandering and lots and lots of money. Although that might sound offensive in the abstract, Nanette does the impossible: it makes the ultimate thin plot simply charming. The theme of the show is being happy. When the middle-aged audience rises at the curtain call to join the company in song-"Life's really worth livin' / When you are mirth-givin'"-it's hard not to believe that these theatre patrons are participating in a long-awaited ritual of self-legitimization...
SOMETHING for Everyone follows a predictable fairy-tale formula for its plot: impoverished Countess von Ornstein and her two children are restored to wealth by a dashing adventurer named Conrad in a fable which ends with a grand wedding. The lubricant of the story, however, is sex: sex perverted, sex sublimated into aggression, sex released in libidinal fantasy. The result of Harold Prince's debut directorial effort for the screen is a minor masterpiece of black comedy...
...patently reflects the political views held by him and his wife Joanne. Their social awareness is admirable, but it has led their moviemaking astray. As two of the screen's most talented artists, they could have brought strength to Stone's closely stitched characters. Instead, personality and plot are overridden by politics...