Word: trashing
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Hollywood's trash, like all rubbish comes in two categories. First there's the stuf which, like nuclear waste, refuses to decay quickly and gives off a weird glow for years. Films like this have been pretty scarce since the early '60s, but every so often, a camp classic like Momance Dearest reminds its just what wonderful depths the genre can stuck to Then there's the mundane trash-strictly binde granddble which is dumped on the public one day, carted away the next and never seen aging...
Blame cannot be laid at the feet of the director, the veteran Don Siegel (Dirty Hurry), who does his best to keep Jinxed moving along smoothly. But he has nothing to work with, not even good trash. Sitting through Jinxed is like staring at your T.V. when nothing decent is on but there's nothing better to do. At least here, if your sensibility overcomes your stupor, the Donkey Kong in the lobby is better than anything you can get on your Atari...
...into traffic," says one laborer shyly. Before settling down to shovel manure, George I takes a wrong turn on his way to the Crusades and does a stint in a Slavic salt mine. The following Georges are doomed to play follow the leader through the centuries, picking up the trash of kings and sultans, knights and janissaries. The last George graduates from shoving around middle-class furniture; now he repossesses the tables and chairs of ghetto blacks who default on their payments. In his off time, he accompanies the dying Mrs. Glazer to a Mexican Laetrile clinic where Elkin...
...from society--unwanted and lonely Mr. Sloan (Mike Samols) enters the sheltered lives of Kath, a middle-aged woman: her crotchety old father Kemp and her effeminate brother Ed. Kath and her father live in a tenement that borders on a dump, and emotionally their lives are steeped in trash and decay as well. The play delves into the complex lover's triangle that develops between Sloan, Kath--who becomes his land-lady and Ed who becomes his employer. To round off the plot, Kemp is the only witness who can prove that Sloan murdered the old father's boss...
...turning the city into an armed camp. When the strikes stretched on for two days, riot police used water cannons and tear gas to disperse crowds that gathered on the square outside the shipyard. As flames lighted the night sky, police battled youths who blockaded streets with bonfires and trash cans...