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...movies Mr. Allen writes and directs but in which he does not appear. His sense of life and his worries about it have been so well chronicled that they are by now unmistakable. So much so that in his new release, "Bullets Over Broadway," there are times when John Cusack looks as if he is doing a bad impression of his director...
...production, directed by Simon Curtis, is spare and uncompromising. Black-and-white shots of a rainy New York City in the 1950s punctuate the scenes. Anne Bancroft, as the mother, looks lost inside her drab overcoat, while Joan Cusack and Adrian Pasder etch small, sad portraits of her well- meaning daughter and son-in-law. The camera focuses patiently on everyday details: a woman reaching into the refrigerator for a glass of milk or trying to thread a sewing machine. Then there is Chayefsky's fabled naturalistic dialogue, which faces up to cliches ("I don't want...
...artist creates his own moral universe." The desire to remind David (John Cusack) of such a burden is irresistible -- he's so young, so serious, so ambitious, so innocent. The trouble is that the universe he actually inhabits is the Broadway of the 1920s, where, as in all show-biz societies, morality is entirely ego driven and provisional...
...nanny as Addams Family Values opens, since they are expecting Pubert -- who is born mustachioed. It would have been salutary if Mrs. Doubtfire had been given the job, for it would have been a true test of her mettle. But the job goes to one Debbie Jellinsky (Joan Cusack), who sets about seducing Uncle Fester (Christopher Lloyd) in what proves to be one of ^ the movie's less profitable conceits. Like the first of the Addams chronicles, this is an essentially lazy movie, too often settling for easy gags and special effects that don't come to any really funny...
...LIEU OF RENOVATING HER LIFE, Ellie McAllister (the luminous Sinead Cusack) decides to renovate her loo. Redecoration instead of redirection: it is probably the most pervasive of middle-class sublimations...