Word: doltishness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...face as he sets most of his relatives and friends (including his mistress, played by Isabelle Huppert) on their self-destructive courses. When Cordier draws the bottom line on his moral accounting, two petty criminals, his mistress's brutal husband, his own shrewish wife and her doltish nephew-lover have all been neatly written off as dead liabilities. He can now face the calamity of World War II with his own small set of books balanced...
...happens to him here (hint: the cockroaches.) The other principal actors--Hal Holbrook, Fritz Weaver, Leslie Nielsen, and Adrienne Barbeau--fare little better, and the entire cast seems rather confused and uncomfortable with the material. The one mild surprise is King himself, who in his acting debut plays a doltish farmer in the "Jordy" sketch...
...turned churches into hotels and greenhouses into train stations to get exactly the look he wants. But the whole business is expended upon what may be Allen's ultimate exercise in self-flagellation: why is it necessary to portray the entire viewing public as a bunch of doltish boors? And why should Bates worry about what he's going to do for a humanity so patently unworthy of his talents...