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...needs. Susan Leviton, a University of Maryland law professor, used the law, which she called "the greatest piece of social legislation ever written," to file a federal lawsuit in 1984 on behalf of a group of disabled children denied timely delivery of educational services. The lawsuit, known locally as "Vaughn G.," resulted in a 1988 consent decree in which the school system agreed to follow a strict timetable for evaluating and educating the children...
...game became destined for overtime, however, at the 66:53 mark when Cornell sophomore Lewis Vaughn slipped a shot past Harvard junior keeper Jordan Dupuis...
...Locusts stars Vaughn (Swingers, The Lost World) as Clay Hewitt, a man on the run who ends up in a small Kansas town, and goes to work at a ranch owned and operated by Capshaw. Capshaw immediately begins to seduce Vaughn, causing sexual tension and rivalry with other ranchers. Clay escapes from the growing soap opera on the range, through his relationship with a local girl (Judd). But when Vaughn befriends Flyboy, teaching him how to be man and not to take abuse from Capshaw, a skewered triangle erupts between the three of them, with Capshaw turning up the sexual...
...impress the ladies) and violent cowboy soap opera. There's nothing wrong with genre fusing or having characters whose individual stories could constitute an entire script in themselves, but this film does it sloppily. By the time The Locusts reaches its wanna-be tragic climax, jumping from Capshaw and Vaughn going head to head to Judd having a picnic with Davies, you feel as if you're watching two different movies. What's meant to be seen as ambitious and dramatically compelling comes across as strung out and hollow...
...actors suffer from the script's lack of focus. Vaughn is likable as Clay, projecting definite screen presence particularly when he is required to be in James Dean mode-but simply doesn't have enough to work with. Capshaw delivers a few good lines, but just never seems mean enough (despite the castration scene) to be a sultry villainess. The great Judd proves once again that she's good enough to act in anything. In one of the quieter scenes in the film, with Judd and Davies sitting in swings at a drive-in movie theater, their faces silhouetted against...