Word: cocoons
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...most surprising hit of the summer remains, thankfully, COCOON (Sack Copley Place). In a year where the average aged screen star probably wouldn't get served at the Metro, this touching movie shows, for a change, that not all that is heart-warming must fit on a toy shelf for Christmas shoppers. Even Dewitt gets his grandparents the old-fashioned way: he gets born with them. No plot line, no acting critique for this one, just see it yourself...
...UFOria: 10:15, 12:30, 2:45, 5, 7:30, 10; Goodbye New York: 10, 12:15, 2:30, 5, 7:30, 9:30; Prizzi's Honor: 10, 12:15, 2:30, 5, 7:30, 10; Emerald Forest: 7:30, 10; Cocoon: 10, 12:15, 2:30, 5, 7:45, 10:10; Gods Must Be Crazy: 10:30, 12:50, 3:15, 5:30, 7:45, 10. Pi Alley: 237 Wash. near Govt's Ctr., Boston, 227-6676. Burial Ground: 1:15, 3:20, 5:35, 7:45, 10; Hell Hole...
...wouldn't it be nice if the science-fantasy genre, recently festooned with cotton-candy aliens and the air of suburban benevolence, could be refreshed by making contact with the laws of dramatic gravity? As it happens, Cocoon has many familiar elements: it could be called E.T. Meets the Over-the-Hill Gang, or On Golden Pod. Like last Christmas' Starman, it contains a love story ^ between an extraterrestrial (Tahnee Welch, Raquel's lithe and stunning daughter) and a young American (Steve Guttenberg); here sex is represented as a love-light that ricochets around the swimming pool. Like...
...some genres will. By the end, when these sunset adventurers take an outward-bound voyage toward a peaceful death, or into eternal life, this film has charted its serene course. One hopes that moviegoers will take Cocoon to their teenage hearts and make a box-office smash of the summer's sweetest, saddest, most exhilarating fable...
...maintain than they are worth. By the estimate of the U.S. International Trade Commission, the voluntary import restraints on Japanese autos that were recently lifted cost U.S. consumers $89,250 a year in higher car prices for each U.S. autoworker's job saved. Furthermore, free-traders argue, a protectionist cocoon would discourage manufacturers from reaching for greater operating efficiencies...