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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Malle animates his vision of a contemporary Gomorrah with an intelligent deployment of detail and hovering shots of inanimate scenes. Some of his ironic directorial comments are almost absurdist: After mob punks kill Joe for stealing their coke, his estranged wife Sally (Susan Sarandon) is left to dispose of the body. When she arrives at the hospital to take a look, there's a gala ceremony to christen its new "Frank Sinatra wing," and right down the hall from Joe's corpse peacock-plumed dancers are kicking their feet while a blow-dried singer (Robert Goulet) croons. "I'm glad...
Lancaster plays Lou, an aging numbers-runner who moves in on Sarandon to help her after Joe's death, courts her, saves her from the mob, and eventually gives her the means to get out of the casino town. In their several romantic encounters, Sarandon's cool-headed, warm-hearted social climber comes off as a well-rounded if simple character: "Tell me stuff," she earnestly asks Lou, wanting to know about French wines, Italian opera, good living. Whether John Guare's screenplay or Lancaster's mole-like blindness to subtlety is responsible, though, Lou never acts like anything...
...second highest pleasure of Atlantic City is Susan Sarandon, whose fate, up to now, has been to be the best thing about oddball movies like The Rocky Horror Picture Show and Malle's earlier Pretty Baby. Here she is Sally, a clam-bar waitress who is as determined to escape her past as Lou is to recapture his Loonily, she aspires to be the first female dealer in the casino at Monte Carlo, and her plucky struggle to keep the panic pushed down inside her when her former life reaches out to reclaim her is played with the subtle...
Also: Douglas Fairbanks Jr., Richard Kiley, Paul Newman, Jason Robards, Susan Sarandon, Gail Sheehy, James Taylor...
Director Dorothy Lyman has meshed the two women's disparate natures with the controlled firmness of the potter's hand. Brennan has the personality of a vulnerable bulldozer, while Sarandon arcs over and under her emotional crises like a dolphin...