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CYRANO DE BERGERAC IS about the Rennaissance poet, playwright, soldier and all-around wit who was afflicted with a huge you-know-what. In love with his cousin Roxanne, Cyrano ends up aiding his rival Christian in winning her affections by supplying the good-looking but vacant boy with his specially crafted sweet nothings...
EVERYONE LOVES Pippin. It's the epitome of the young-man's-search-for-meaning musical, a close cousin of Candide, Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat, The Fantastiks, ad nauseum...
...outside his small home in Atteridgeville, a black township near Pretoria. Seconds later, a marauder hurled a hand grenade at his house, blowing a hole in one wall. Morotola, who had been sleeping in a room in another part of the house, escaped harm, but his 18-year-old cousin was injured in the blast...
...turf over which the Vaughnum cousins are scuffling is Honeysuckle Hill, a rundown mansion with 25 acres of barren land. Cousin King (Stephen Root), the conniver, and his sugarcoated dragon of a wife Clairice (Jane Murray) want to raze the house and put up a "Christian shopping center." The twins, Ruth (Pat Nesbit) and Raymond (Ray Dooley), resent that plan but do not want to move back in either. Miss Anna (Lizan Mitchell), a black family retainer whom everyone believes to be an illegitimate child of Grandfather Vaughnum's, feels that the house is rightly hers. Bobby (Fritz Sperberg...
...fine when it captures the languid rhythm of everyday preoccupations and lets its attractive actors (especially Hallie Foote, the author's daughter) breathe quietly through the lace curtains of memory. The mood is so lulling that the intrusion of climactic plot devices involving an alcoholic friend and a cooty cousin seems not only extraneous but downright rude. There goes the neighborhood, and the movie. Instead of a valentine to his ghosts, Foote finally delivers a tardy, clumsy Easter present: Horton Hatches an Egg. By Richard Corliss...