Word: daughter-in-law
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...that is unusually perceptive and occasionally brilliant. Geraldine Page is wonderful as Mother Watts, the doting, doddering old protagonist, a hymn-singing, sentimental Jewish mother who happens to be a Texas Christian. She lives in a cramped Houston apartment with her milquetoast son Ludie (John Heard) and shrill daughter-in-law (Carlin Glynn), leading a weary existence that only aggravates her deteriorating heart condition...
Before she dies, Page yearns to visit her childhood home, a barren and deserted Gulf Coast town called Bountiful. She hides her pension check to garner the necessary funds and packs hastily in a desperate attempt to visit Bountiful, but her son and daughter-in-law are bent on preventing her escape...
...OTHER CHARACTERS fall just a little short. As the daughter-in-law, Glynn is trapped in a one-dimensional role, handicapped by the shallowness of the script. We are constantly alerted to the fact that she is a heartless, tacky bitch, but the character is so overwrought that, despite some hints of depth, we never see enough complexity really to identify with her. Ditto for Thelma (Rebecca De Mornay), a young woman whom Page befriends in a bus station on the way to Bountiful. De Mornay's character is so unflinchingly sweet that when she suddenly and inexplicably disappears from...
Barrera and others also sharply criticized Duarte for sending two other daughters, a daughter-in-law and five grandchildren to the U.S. a few weeks after the abduction. Duarte says he has proof that a network of guerrilla spies closely monitored the activities of all his children and planned additional kidnapings. Indeed, he says, two other daughters narrowly escaped abduction attempts. But the critics contend that moving his own family to safety undermines confidence that the government can control the rebels. "If he doesn't feel secure, how secure should we feel?" asked Barrera...
...best customers. "Drunk" becomes a steady, solitary refrain during the fall and winter. He also struggles with carnal desires. He reads and translates erotic passages from Juvenal. When these sessions succeed, he writes: Masturbatus sum. Shortly after he arrives, he develops a crush on Fanny Cooper, the daughter-in-law of the local Methodist preacher, whose husband then providentially dies of a rattlesnake bite. As the diarist's history slowly emerges, he becomes that quintessential hero of American literature, the self-exile on the run from his past...