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...only good thing about this movie. Ambitions Burt Reynolds takes on writing, directing, and acting chores in this clunker about a man with a terminal disease, and poor Burt fails at two out of three (guess which ones). This is the idea for a comedy...
Directed by Burt Reynolds Screenplay by Jerry Belson...
...novel has been faithfully translated to the screen by director John Boorman in this very disturbing film. Four good ole boys canoe down a remote country river and find survival in the wilderness to be more than they can handle. As the self-confident superjock who leads the expedition, Burt Reynolds actually gets to act--something he hasn't done since. Jon Voight and Ned Beatty are also excellent. (The latter's "squeal like a pig" scene is a memorably gruesome portrayal of humiliation.) The film has a great deal of violence, and a long, agonizing sequence in which Voight...
...best at being bad, she is also one of the best at being good. She was fine as the prostitute in ABC's Hustling; her presence made bearable even a bore like Silver Streak; and as the rich Texas tomboy she more than held her own with Burt Reynolds and Kris Kristofferson in Semi-Tough. But in An Unmarried Woman she has found the role all those disasters may have prepared her for. As Erica, the wronged wife, she is vulnerable and tough, innocent and cynical, cool and sexy. Erica comes alive in a way film characters rarely...
...opening? "Terrific," Moore said, "Terrific for Boston, terrific for anywhere. It was the best opening I've ever had." He has tried out shows here before, notably the Neil Simon-Burt Bacharach musical, Promises, Promises, and Simon's Last of the Red Hot Lovers. The reviews that morning had been moderately favorable; Kevin Kelly of the Globe had enjoyed the show. "Kevin Kelly is generally regarded as no pushover," said Moore. "It was a terrific score...