Word: boyfriend
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Elliot begins the roundelay by lurching into a mad pash for the beautiful, cheerful, lost Lee. Perhaps he is weary of Hannah's competence; she is a kind of live-in social worker for her sweet, nerdy husband. Lee, for her part, is tired of baby-sitting her European boyfriend (Max Von Sydow) and is ready to find another professorial loser to whom she can teach the facts of love. Meanwhile, Holly flounces desperately among Mr. Wrongs until she finds Mickey, a TV producer and the only person in New York who worries more than she does...
Apart from the estrangement between Harry and Kate, Twice in a Lifetime has two other principal subplots, one dealing with daughter Sunny marital problems and the other with daughter Helen's plans to get married to her nineteen-year-old boyfriend. (Why anyone would want to get married after experiencing what this family has gone through is entirely unclear, but the film does follow the wedding dress...
...seem to mind that her father has moved in with another woman, depleting the family finances so that she is no longer able to go to college. Working around the situation with admirable aplomb, she decides that the best thing for her to do would be to marry her boyfriend Tim, of whom she casually remarks, "Mom, I'm marrying a guy with no class...
...terrific Eddie, all slurred words and crooked teeth. He has a cocky, lanky body language, like a scarecrow loosed on a three-day drunk. Basinger is better, fiesty and dignified and lovely to watch. The scene in which she washes herself is unspeakably beautiful. Quaid is fine as the boyfriend, with a charm as harmless and crooked as his bowtie. And Harry Dean Stanton gives another superlative performance. He ranks with Robert Duvall as our finest character actor...
...over my head, and banged me against the floor. After that I thought he was finished hitting me, but yesterday he said he was going to step on my face. You want to dial the cops, but you can't. I never talk about him to my boyfriend. I didn't even want to talk to Geraldine at first. I didn't like her at first. I liked Mary Paul better. I thought Geraldine, you know, wanted too much. Then I wrote her letters. That helped. You want to see the letters...