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...creaks when it's not playing with the beasties. For the first half-hour -- the preshow before the thrill ride -- you are advised to bide your time. Screenwriter David Koepp's subplot, in which a paleontologist (Sam Neill) is force-fed lessons in fatherhood by his paleobotanist girlfriend (Laura Dern), is laid on with a trowel. And the plot occasionally beggars belief. If you were up a huge tree and a van were teetering on the branch above you, would you race down the side of the tree just ahead of the plummeting vehicle, or would you move sensibly...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Jaws Ii | 6/14/1993 | See Source »

...book and the movie, which stars Sam Neill and Laura Dern, are essentially theme-park rides -- say, EPCOT Center's Universe of Energy, the one with the Audio-Animatronic dinosaurs -- which Crichton has given a cunning tweak. The novel is also a dark musing on the hubris that can infect science and capitalism in the heady, dicey enterprise of cloning DNA. The biotechnologist thinks he is God; the businessman dreams he is Croesus...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Behind the Magic of Jurassic Park | 4/26/1993 | See Source »

...Laura Dern's innocent horniness as the servant girl who gets a middle-class Southern family all hot and bothered was one of the year's comic and erotic delights. Calder Willingham's script and Martha Coolidge's direction flavored a warm, steamy brew with just the right amounts of lemon and honey...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Best of 1991:Cinema | 1/6/1992 | See Source »

...anyone confuse Mary Agnes Donoghue's Paradise, a well-acted, sweetly stated and emotionally predictable tale of an estranged couple brought together by a visiting child, with Rambling Rose, which portrays a much more genially dysfunctional family involved with a randy and amiably obliging serving girl played by Laura Dern. Based on a script that Calder Willingham derived from his own novel, Rose's true preoccupation is one that the movies always cater to slyly but almost never directly confront: basic, down-and- goofy human horniness...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Hollywood's New Directions | 10/14/1991 | See Source »

Wild at Heart, which sends a pair of loser lovers (Nicolas Cage and Laura Dern) on a trip into the dark night of the Southern Gothic soul, is a tonic for the senses and an assault on the sensibilities. Heads splatter, skulls explode, biker punks torture folks for the sheer heck of it, and a pair of loopy innocents find excitement in a side trip to hell. Pretty much like Blue Velvet. Yes, it's different, but the same kind of different; Lynch could no longer shock by being shocking. Many critics figured they had solved the mystery...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: David Lynch: Czar of Bizarre | 10/1/1990 | See Source »

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