Word: plot
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Dates: during 1990-1990
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...almost a shame that Scott Turow's novel Presumed Innocent was such a smash two years ago, because several million readers of that best-seller will unfortunately already have had the original and compelling plot revealed to them...
...credit, there aren't any gimmicks in this plot, and you would be hard pressed to find another crime movie that relies so little on coincidence. Nearly all the important actions are motivated by peculiarities of characters' personalities, and both the criminal and gory details of the murder in the film are remarkably believeable...
...mafioso gourmet chef Larry London (Maximilain Schell). Kellogg soon finds himself drawn into the Sabatini family deeper and faster than he wishes, engaged to Sabatini's daughter Tina (Penelope Ann Miller) and under federal investigation for his role in his boss's illegal dealings. What follows, of course, is plot twists and farce...
...also needed to see his estranged wife before and after their marriage was annulled. Other Beat chroniclers have noted that Cassady had a surplus of erotic energy. Carolyn recalls he was not an especially sensitive lover. Sex, it appears, was less a private act between two people than a plot element in the crowded drama he lived from day to day. Carolyn played her part when Jack Kerouac moved in. With her husband's tacit urging, she became the novelist's lover. "I provided for whichever of them was in residence according to his individual preferences," she writes of that...
...Plot, admirably scripted by Don Jackoby and Wesley Strick from a story by Jackoby and Al Williams, centers on a giant Venezuelan spider, accidentaly imported into a small northern Californian town in the coffin of its first victim. The belligerant arachnid then mates with a harmless domestic spider, creating a deadly army of offspring which quickly goes about killing members of the unsuspecting populace. The remainder of the film concerns itself with the town's efforts to rid itself of the newly acquired menace...