Word: crime
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...selection of anonymous juries in Manhattan's federal district court. It is a major test for an ambitious prosecutor: if Giuliani can win enough convictions in these and other trials scheduled to begin during the next six months, he not only would deal a stunning blow to organized crime in America but also would deal himself a pretty fair hand for a high-stakes political career...
...must go to Robert Loggia. In the role of Sam Ransom, a private investigator, he is direct, foul-mouthed, and undeniably charming. Just as Jagged Edge threatens to take itself too seriously, Loggia breezes in with Sam's own perverse and sanely brusque opinion of the murderer and his crime: "Fuck him," he comments, dismissing in one succinct phrase every emotionally contrived moment in the movie...
...serious problem with this film is its lack of real dynamism. "Heaven," according to the Talking Heads, "is a place where nothing ever happens;" so Agnes of God is quite close to paradise. Though the film is structured like a psychological detective story, nothing is really detected about the crime. And what is detected about the characters is strictly expository; it doesn't lead to any changes or resolutions...
...contradictions and questions appear in the movie that should upset Livingston's new found spiritual agnosticism. Which of the conception stories do we believe, and why does another nun appear to have acted as liason in one of them? What was the Mother Superior's real role in the crime? After all, she was present exerting her maximum influence on Agnes during hypnosis, and one can lie under hypnosis. And who is the baby's father...
...chief planks of Patton's campaign plattorm were lowering taxes, improving the schools by increasing state education aid, and fighting crime. Apparently these issues are attracting support because substantially more voters supported her last year than...