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Still and all, there are some good things about this movie. One of them is pretty Amy Irving who plays the deaf woman. She falls for Michael Ontkean, a laundry truck driver and strip joint singer. Before she knows it, she has dumped her deaf boyfriend Scott and started spending nights at the Hoboken, N.J. apartment her new boyfriend shares with his extended family of stereotypes--1) hopeless professional gambler father, 2) gang member brother, and 3) kindly, white-haired, tailor grandfather. This crew goes about their stock business as usual (Pa loses $2700 on Sleepwalker in the seventh, brother...
...expert on monetary affairs. Last week, after she failed to show up for work, agents of the Bundesamt für Verfassungsschutz, West Germany's equivalent of the FBI, discovered that she had fled with all her belongings-as well as those of her live-in boyfriend, Robert Kresse. "She even took her canary," said a Verfassungsschutz agent...
...direction, the authentic tone of the dialogue and the straightforward work of an excellent cast. Tom Skerritt as the skater's father, reluctant to let her go, and her first coach, Colleen Dewhurst, are particularly good. There is a choice piece of writing for Robby Benson, playing her boyfriend. In the beginning he is both unsure about what he wants to do in life and fearful that she will outdistance...
...sounds crass, but you have to use your assets." Reports Chan: "They mention to me many times this is something to show to their grandchildren." That urge is apparently, widely felt. Some of Playboy's competitors now feature warts-and-all snapshots, usually taken by husband or boyfriend, sent in by women eager to memorialize their assets. "To each his own," says Chan. "We're not gynecological photographers at Playboy. All we're shooting is physical beauty. Inner beauty doesn't come out until after about...
Fortunately, Paul and Susan have friends who are fun to be with. Comic relief is generously provided by Susan's pal Janice (Robin Bartlett), prime guru bait who arrives in a sari, with a skull-washed boyfriend who is out of this world, Asian or otherwise. Kevin Kline's Paul sensitively conveys the perplexity of a neomodern man coping with a neomodern woman, and Director Alan Schneider's supple intelligence cloaks the nudity of the text...