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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...kingpins of his mother's high-society existence become orc-like creatures who are dragging Jill in a cage. The myriad ducts which encroach upon his apartment become snakes which attack him, and his mother, who has been getting progressively more drastic facelifts, appears looking like his daughter...

Author: By Benjamin N. Smith, | Title: Brazil's Flying Circus | 1/31/1986 | See Source »

...year-old, but some of the disgust we are meant to feel is lost among the wash of color and high quality production. Unable to communicate subtly the extent of the father's shortcomings, Spielberg is forced to rely on a line from the script in which father tells daughter to "hurry up" while she's in labor...

Author: By Jeff Chase, | Title: The Color Too Purple | 1/31/1986 | See Source »

...made the CBS Evening News. The New York Times. The Boston Globe. Your parents read it in hometown papers. "What's this about Harvard hobos?" they asked. "Son. Daughter. Was anybody hurt...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Accidental Kindness, Incidental Cruelty | 1/22/1986 | See Source »

Apart from the estrangement between Harry and Kate, Twice in a Lifetime has two other principal subplots, one dealing with daughter Sunny marital problems and the other with daughter Helen's plans to get married to her nineteen-year-old boyfriend. (Why anyone would want to get married after experiencing what this family has gone through is entirely unclear, but the film does follow the wedding dress...

Author: By Cristina V. Coletta, | Title: More Than Twice | 1/10/1986 | See Source »

...film tries to show how dad's deflating marriage makes daughter Sunny rethink her own marriage to an unemployed steel worker. We don't see much reevaluation/reconsideration going on, just a lot of bitter recrimination and vociferous shouting matches between Sunny and her father, climaxing in the staple confrontation scene, as initiated by Sunny, between the three members of the romantic triangle...

Author: By Cristina V. Coletta, | Title: More Than Twice | 1/10/1986 | See Source »

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