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...movie's first hour plays like a 1930s version of the "The Wonder Years." We watch the story's hero Aaron Kurlander (Jesse Bradford) experience life's small joys and hardships: first kisses and school bullies, games of marbles and overbearing authority figures. Although these scenes practically beg for cliched voice-over narration and close-ups of Fred Savage-like doe eyes, they manage to exude charm...
...Quakers' attack is led by senior forward Kossouth Bradford, who is tied for fifth in overall scoring with three goals and three assists in six games for the Quakers...
...encounter Aaron Kurlander (Jesse Bradford), 12, reading a paper to his school class in St. Louis, Missouri, in 1933. It's a very persuasive fantasy in which he imagines Charles Lindbergh calling him for advice on what food to take on his transatlantic solo flight. The boy suggests that cheese sandwiches are always good...
...much to contend with: a hotel management that wants to evict him, a slimily threatening bellhop, the sadistic cop on the beat, not to mention the dawning mysteries of sex and some sudden deaths and dislocations among his friends. The wary reserve of Bradford's performance has a crystalline quality in which you can read in his response to his father's bluster and mother's passivity. You sense in him a future manliness that will avoid both modes...
...bubbleheadedness, Marilyn & Bobby is slickly mounted. Melody Anderson and James F. Kelly (who played R.F.K. in three previous TV movies) do passable impersonations, and director Bradford May keeps the close-ups tight and the action fast; the re-created Senate-hearing clashes between Kennedy and Hoffa are more convincing than anything Danny DeVito managed in Hoffa. If Marilyn & Bobby were not about two historical figures whose actual lives -- as opposed to the fantasies people continue to build around them -- still matter to us, Marilyn & Bobby could possibly be dismissed as harmless...