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Word: toback (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1982-1982
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There are two character types that American movies have never believably portrayed: the international financier and the Third World revolutionary. By putting both in the same picture, Love and Money hardly doubles anyone's fun. Writer-Director James Toback labors under the delusion that he is a man of ideas, a Conrad or Dostoyevsky of the silver screen, and will go to any convoluted lengths to get a strained or totally phony argument going. In this case, the great mogul (played with a flashy show of menacing teeth by Klaus Kinski) wishes to bump off the revolutionary (Armand Assante...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Rushes: Mar. 8, 1982 | 3/8/1982 | See Source »

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