Word: charmless
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...fancy fiction, Daniel rarely achieves its ambitions. Hutton, Grouse, Amanda Plummer (as Susan), Ellen Barkin (as Daniel's wife) and Tovah Feldshuh (as a childhood friend) are among the most talented and persuasive of young stars; here they are either given little to do or are buried in charmless roles. One brief sequence suggests the film's potential power. At a rally for their parents, Daniel and Susan, then 12 and 7, are passed toward the stage on the upstretched hands of the faithful; the children are moved and frightened by this show of support that also seems...
...lecturing on adult education. The assumption is that art can tangibly improve the quality of a person's life--stimulating and sharpening his imagination, so, in the words of British playwright Arnold Wesker, he can make "imaginative leaps of understanding and perception" without which he would be "insensitive, purposeless, charmless and finally, destructive...
...easy being a working mother-especially if your boss happens to be Louis B. Mayer and your job category is movie star. It is especially not easy if one of your adopted children turns out to be the spoiled and charmless brat portrayed in this silly movie about the domestic life of Joan Crawford. The sympathy one is supposed to feel for the poor little rich waif (played at different ages by Mara Hobel and Diana Scarwid) slides away from her and onto the fashionably padded shoulders of the actress, whom Faye Dunaway's makeup artist, Lee C. Harman...
...after life. History buffs should be diverted by the author's ability to mix notables, from Baron von Richthofen to U.S. Grant, like grains of sand in an hourglass. The greatest beneficiaries should be science fiction fans. For too long they have filled their shelves with charmless fantasies and technical jargon that talks to itself...
...love triangle; yet, the nature of that love is never articulated. Does Queen Guenevere (Christine Ebersole) love King Arthur (Burton) for the sweet reasonableness with which he wishes to foster justice and peace? Does a surge of passion draw her to Lancelot (Richard Muenz), even though he is a charmless prig? Ebersole's Guenevere is closer to marble than to flesh, and, in any event, we never do learn what these three people feel for each other...