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...sports teams, was huge and seemingly irreparable. Many, possibly most, of the students and fans wanted to shut down the program, the better to concentrate on mourning. But they reckoned without the team's survivors, who rallied their spirits, and without the doubting but eventually doughty college president (David Straithairn), who has to find a coach and, incidentally, talk the NCAA into letting Marshall play freshmen (which was against the rules in those days). Mostly they reckoned without Jack Lengyel (Matthew McConaughey), the last (possibly only) choice for the job and a guy with a winning - in both senses...
...David Straithairn...
...David Straithairn...
Through all these horrible events in Alice's life, her husband Howard (David Straithairn) does little to help. Although he cares about his children, he leaves most of the necessary child care duties to his wife, even after she endures the death of her friend's child. He urges Alice to focus on the daily routine, oblivious to the fact that her life is falling apart. There is a particularly striking scene when Howard is about to make love to his wife one night, and though she is unable emotionally to handle it, he still cannot comprehend the problems...
...heart of its intricacy, the film basically follows the misfortunes of three Los Angeles cops as they trace the links among the murder of a corrupt colleague, a pioneer of sleazoid celebrity journalism (Danny DeVito, who brings huge comic relish to the role), a shadowy social climber (David Straithairn), who is enamored of underworld glamour, a call girl (an entrancing Kim Basinger) working for a service whose employees are obliged to imitate movie stars (she's the Veronica Lake look-alike), and, eventually, major players in the Los Angeles law-enforcement hierarchy...