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Dates: during 1990-1990
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Give up? Well, the movie is Quick Change. But it's no wonder that most elements of its plot may remind you of other recent films...

Author: By Adam K. Goodheart, | Title: Does This Film Sound Familiar to You? | 7/27/1990 | See Source »

...show leaves one wishing that Reddin were less preoccupied with writing about people so lacking in self-awareness, so ethically dead that in a crisis they shrivel rather than change. By temperament he cuts himself off from straightforward plot development. His characters rarely grow and deepen, eliminating another avenue by which plays accumulate impact. Thus this fine writer produces works that stimulate the mind but do not linger in the heart...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theater: Myth, Ambition and Anger | 7/23/1990 | See Source »

...eager to plunge into her, unable to hold back." The cumbrous exposition: "He always imagined that people were making fun of him behind his back, which was sometimes true." The colliding metaphors: "He was in good hands. He had his foot in the door." And below all, the implausible plot...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Schlock Mimic | 7/23/1990 | See Source »

...greatly publicized Ghost calls the movie startling. Startling maybe if you've never seen sap running from the trees in springtime. The subtitle for the movie is "Believe," but you're more likely to believe peace breaking out in the Middle East than most of this peripatetic plot...

Author: By Kelly A.E. Mason, | Title: Friendy Ghost is Spoof, Not Spook | 7/20/1990 | See Source »

Most of the mystery of this movie lies in its attraction rather than its plot. The movie opens with yuppie couple Sam Wheat (Patrick Swayze) and Molly Jensen (Demi Moore) moving into one of those ridiculously large New York apartments that only people in movies can afford. They're happy, after their fashion--late at night, when Molly can't sleep, she shapes clay phallic symbols on her pottery wheel and Sam wakes up and helps her. Despite the fact his hands are caked with clay, he rubs her thighs. She gets all hot and bothered, and they dance...

Author: By Kelly A.E. Mason, | Title: Friendy Ghost is Spoof, Not Spook | 7/20/1990 | See Source »

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