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...good. Cruise, like Robert Redford two decades ago, is a Hollywood hunk who has played it smart by playing smart guys: young men with cute brain waves who can make intelligence and idealism sexy. He and the pricey cast (Ed Harris, Holly Hunter, Wilford Brimley) make the machinery purr. The writers have corrected the book's dangling threat -- how to confront and cleverly resolve Mitch's brief disloyalty to Abby -- and its stodgy ending. The movie's moral is that however corrupt the Mob is, these lawyers are worse. Better for Mitch to cut a deal with a don than...
There are some real surprises in the film, but usually they work out rather well. Wilfred "It's the Right Thing to Do" Brimley as the firm's menacing security agent would seem to be a case of gross miscasting, but he pulls it off well. There's a hidden edge of steel to all of his genial suggestions to eat Quaker Oats after all. Holly Hunter as Tammy, the secretary/lover of a private detective killed while digging into the firm is a delight--she goes from persona to persona with razor-sharp acting and timing...
...Batman syndrome--as in Tim Burton's movie, the evil character has the best dialogue and so enjoys his wicked doings that the audience cannot help being drawn to him. Though Cain does his best to flesh out the "good-guy" model written for him, Jorgenson still resembles Wilford Brimley in a Quaker Oats commercial--he wants to preserve his company because "it's the right thing...
...carry the message, the ad agencies are signing up a host of aging TV and movie stars. Among the familiar faces: Wilford Brimley for Quaker Oats, Art Carney for Coca-Cola Classic, Barbara Billingsley and Jane Wyatt for Milk of Magnesia and Buddy Ebsen for McDonald's. Special modeling agencies have sprung up to meet the growing demand for mature actors for commercials. At the Ford agency, a division called Classic Woman offers a group of 30 models over age 40. Senior Class, a New York City agency started last year, books 200 men and women 50 to 80. Among...
...that Our House, the season's best family show, is the one that is not a half-hour sitcom. The form may simply have grown too fast paced and hyped with gag lines to accommodate the subtleties of relatives living under one roof. In a scene from Our House, Brimley is concerned about his grandson, who has been sulking because his moneymaking project of painting neighborhood curbs is being threatened by a pair of bullies. Brimley walks into the boy's room and finds him brooding alone. Instead of launching into a typical TV heart-to-heart talk, Brimley turns...