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...that end everyone we meet in this film is grotesquely up and doing, romantically speaking. Cannon, for example finds a hunk who turns out to be not quite of the social status he pretends and she wants. Len Cariou's Jack is decently hesitant about bedding Kellerman's Sandy, but eventually succumbs to her rather therapeutically stated invitations. Joe Bologna talks a confident wom anizing game, but doesn't score many points. Of this odd lot only Brenda Vaccaro's Marilyn, saddened but not fully daunted by the sudden, accidental death of her husband, seems content to accept a solitary...
...sensationalism, which is not the same thing as being sensational. Jessica Traynor (Sean Young), the top program executive for Tycom Entertainment, a pay-per-view operation "somewhere in a 500-channel television universe," is searching for a blockbuster programming event. "We're in trouble, Jess," says her boss (Len Cariou). "Movies don't work; screen's still too small. Sports is dying. The sex boom is over. Where the hell are we going...
...SPEED OF DARKNESS. Playwright Steve Tesich brings together two former Army buddies and trash-haulage partners in this haunting Broadway production, one (Stephen Lang) now scruffy and homeless, the other (Len Cariou) now South Dakota's man of the year. Ironically, the dropout is at peace; the man who suppressed his dark secrets to fit in exists on the knife edge of anger...
Surviving is even more damning in its indictment of the suicidal teen-agers' parents. Lonnie's folks (Marsha Mason and Paul Sorvino) offer little understanding or support for their daughter after an earlier attempt to kill herself. Rick's father (Len Cariou) puts undue pressure on the boy to do well in school; his mother (Ellen Burstyn) is obliviously wrapped up in her work with foreign-exchange students. In the scope and ferocity of its family suffering, Surviving approaches the proportions of a Greek tragedy. Unfortunately, it lapses into bathos in the final hour, as the bereaved parents wade through...
...Four Seasons is Alan Alda's promising, if imperfect directorial debut. The promise and the very real pleasures of the film derive from its eagerness to explore the mid-life passage with good-humored civility. Alda is particularly good at examining the male sensibility. Cariou's philanderer is troubled by the directions in which his sexuality has driven him, puzzled by the ways in which marriage has ill used his wife as well as himself. Weston's worrier is rich and touching as it becomes clear that his comic fussings over his diet and his money...