Word: caan
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Williams is the damsel in distress; she gets to kick and shoot a few bad people, but at the climax, when she needs to pick up a gun, it slips through her fingers. (Girls--can't they do anything?) James Caan, as Arnold's boss, nicely gauges the power and menace of a G-man too long in the game; when he says the word patriotism, it sounds like "paid treason." Schwarzenegger, of course, is a paid tree trunk. And for the first time in a while, his character is as solid as he is. Welcome back...
...Sweeney (James Caan) is a Fagan-like character, who uses his young Oliveresque son Arlis (played by Jerry Swindall as a child and by Dennis Quaid as an adult) to break into and steal from people's homes. The scheme is this: a family finds a mute, apparently lost child on its doorstep one day, and takes him in. While asleep, the young Arlis creeps downstairs to let his father in, and together, they loot the house, sneaking off into the night...
...James Caan's performance is calm on the outside but seething with wickedness. Where the plot provides no motive for his actions, Caan tells us through his acting--he is evil and he will get what he wants...
...film traces the intertwining of an act from the first meeting of singer- funny girl Dixie Leonard (Midler) and song-and-dance man Eddie Sparks (James Caan) at a USO show in wartime England to the final tribute to them as national treasures. That treasurability derives from a willingness to perform for U.S. troops wherever and whenever they are embattled, and from the public's belief that despite the couple's bickering, they really love each other...
...mass production and megalomania. One sequence tracks the relay team of writers hired by producer-director Ivan Reitman to massage the script of Kindergarten Cop. ("I felt he was somewhat written out," says Reitman of original writer Murray Salem. Says Salem: "He was not that friendly to me.") James Caan recalls career missteps that included turning down the lead roles in One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest and Kramer vs. Kramer...