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...Roy Astrachan '97, a student who attended twosections yesterday, said that the University'sacademic calendar has so few breaks that holidaysshould be honored by all courses...
...Roy Sweeney (James Caan) is a Fagan-like character, who uses his young Oliveresque son Arlis (played by Jerry Swindall as a child and by Dennis Quaid as an adult) to break into and steal from people's homes. The scheme is this: a family finds a mute, apparently lost child on its doorstep one day, and takes him in. While asleep, the young Arlis creeps downstairs to let his father in, and together, they loot the house, sneaking off into the night...
...movie begins with a prologue set thirty years ago in a large farmhouse in Texas; the scheme is underway, when the owner of the victimized house wakes and investigates the noise the two thieves are making. Fearing capture, Roy kills the father with his gun--then the wife, then their young son in a jolting opening scene. As Roy and Arlis leave the slaughter, the crying of the baby Roy has spared pierces the night air from its crib...
Arlis' father re-enters the scene randomly after many years away, and Arlis himself undergoes a series of melodramatic crises: how can he every really deserve her love, after what his father did to her? Will he let Roy "finish loose ends" with her? Is he fated to follow the footsteps of his father, against his own will...
Quaid plays the role with an intense restraint and pained disposition which conveys the total psychological damage done to him by his father, and his own personal battle to distinguish himself from Roy's actions. Meg Ryan as Kay Davies is the focus of the father-son struggle, and remains a simplistic character completely oblivious to what is happening around her. Her sparkling wide-eyed stare and innocent dialogue provide an effective counterweight to the heavy dynamic of the plot which revolves around...