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...boss. What's truly appealing about the film is that it plays fair with all this material and the audience. Unlike the typical action movie, which is always trampling over narrative logic in order to rush on to the next explosion, this movie had writers (John Milius, Donald Stewart, Steven Zaillian; the film is based on a Tom Clancy novel) who take the time to keep us in the picture. You may not remember all of it later, but as the plot unfolds, its logic is, you might say, clear and present...
What is a single mother to do? Jennifer Ireland, 19, wanted to get on with her life. In high school in 1990 she became pregnant by her boyfriend, Steven Smith. She had a baby girl, Maranda. Unmarried but with help from her mother, she raised the child for three years, with little involvement by Steven, who last year began paying $12 a week in child support. Last year Ireland enrolled at the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor on a scholarship. While in school, she put Maranda in day care. Wrong move...
What's going on here? A lost-boy trend? A commercial coincidence, based on such earlier successes with this theme as the Home Alone pictures, Terminator 2 and most of Steven Spielberg's oeuvre? An attempt by sly Hollywood to suggest that the family values it has but recently renewed its oath to uphold and defend are actually missing in much of America? Or -- worst-case scenario -- an effort to subvert those values right in the middle of movies that are marketed and rated as family entertainment...
...Linda Louise Freeman (Covers); Steve Conley, Jamie Elsis, Paul Lussier, Thomas M. Miller (Associate Art Directors); Joseph Aslaender, Kenneth B. Smith (Assistant Art Directors); Leah M. Purcell (Designer); John P. Dowd (Traffic) Maps and Charts: Joe Lertola (Associate Graphics Director); Paul J. Pugliese (Chief of Cartography); Leslie Dickstein, Steven D. Hart, Deborah L. Wells Administration: Marilyn Rudnick-Salinger...
IMAGING: Mark Stelzner (Manager); Gerard Abrahamsen, Raphael Joa, Lois Rubenstein (Supervisors); Steven Cadicamo, Charlotte Coco, John Dragonetti, Paul Gettinger, John Goodman, Kin Wah Lam, Carl Leidig, Linda Parker, Mark P. Polomski, Richard Shaffer, David Spatz, Lorri Stenton...