Word: brantley
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Brantley Foster, come to conquer the business world. His uncle (Richard Jordan) runs a vulnerable conglomerate; his inamorata (Helen Slater) is the boss's minor squeeze; the older woman who beds Brantley is the boss's wife (Margaret Whitton). And now that we have the farce machinery purring, let's kick it into high gear. Naaah, why bother? Director Herbert Ross and Writers Jim Cash, Jack Epps Jr. and A J Carothers know this picture exists only as a mobile Michael J. Fox poster, suitable for display on the bedroom walls of twelve-year-olds named Cindy. Secret earned nearly...
...unlike the male protagonists in other successful teen movies who combine youthful awkwardness with quick wit and charm, Brantley is too perfect. If he had been born in midtown Manhattan he wouldn't be more at home in The City--and we're supposed to believe he's never lived off the farm. Brantley should have been played as an innocent idealist thrown into the wild den of Wall Street...
...Brantley, in fact, is such a powerhouse that he overwhelms his partner in success, Christie Wills, who, ironically enough, is played by former Supergirl and current Fox flame Helen Slater. When Brantley enters the business world as a mail clerk--and an inexperienced one, at that--Christie already has worked her way up to a top level executive job. Christie is a hard-working financial wizard, and Harvard graduate, whose skill impressed businessmen more than did her femininity...
Until she started a love affair with Brantley, that is. From the moment the two start sleeping together, Slater's portrait of a successful working woman crumbles into the standard role of sexy sidekick. Instead of using her brains to save the company, Christie ends up kissing Brantley when he lands the CEO chair. She is reduced from a strong, sassy character into a one-dimensional sexual tool...
...movie's other female lead shines as she combines a strong will with sexual overdrive. Margaret Whitton, who plays Brantley's Aunt Vera, is a zestful piranha with the perfect amount of evil allure and bawdy sexuality to make her attacks on Fox a high point of the movie. By her side, Brantley's uncle (Richard Jordan) fades in comparison, exuding unimpressive ill will...