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...Small Affair could, indeed, be a funnier Risky Business: the tale of a camera, a boy, and his loss of innocence. Instead, the film becomes so clumsy that innocence is less lost than simply misplaced between attempts to capture the pop teen market with enlarged pinip posters of Laura (Demi Moore) and a "ssure-hit" soundtrack...
...Laura (Demi Moore) enters the picture as a block in Charles's viewfinder: she's standing in front of a boat he wants to photograph. In person, she stirs Charles about as much as if she were his lens cap, or maybe a free. But somewhere between the wharf and the darkroom, her photo becomes something more. Out a mix of photo dots. Lawra becomes line Love, the antuhesis to the cheap sex hunger pains of Charles's brother...
...year veteran of General Hospital. Demi Moore plays Laura with the depth of a pinup poster. She is at her best when actually posing while Charles snaps her picture against one San Francisco landmark after another. Let her open her mouth and the pinup becomes a comic-strip character, the perfect addition to Judge Parker land...
...kind of student naiveté that would equate a speeding ticket with police brutality causes Danny to abandon his stance of amused tolerance. He retreats to a second demi-world, the "motley, traitorous émigré community." Alas, there the exiles have adopted native customs with a vengeance. The women wear gold boots with green hearts and T shirts with breasts printed on them. The men buy calfskin jackets if they can afford them, checkered suits if they cannot. During their frequent alcoholic binges, they plot absurd schemes for a National Liberation Army of the Czechoslovak People that will overthrow...
...with excessive mannerisms and a loud voice. Michael Caine, in turn, seems constantly confused, as if he was just thrust in front of the camera and attempting to regain his composure. Caine, however, does the best he can and delivers the few comic moments in the film wonderfully. Finally, Demi Moore puts in the movie's most endearing performance as the disillusioned Nicki who sadly watches her friend Jennifer lead her father astray...