Word: emotionalize
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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David Frisch as Paul does a passable job of conveying the confusion and heartache of postpubescent romance, becoming more engrossed in his role as the scene progresses. Forsythe, however, seems wholly incapable of playing a teenager. The effect is somewhat ridiculous, as it appears that an adult woman is begging...
Emotion by rote.
But Delaney Smith quickly composed herself. She wasn't about to let the emotion of the situation go to her head. She wanted confirmation.
Duvalier's secret departure set off a wave of explosive emotion when it was announced on nationwide radio and television less than four hours later. In a self-serving recorded message, he told his countrymen, "I wish to go down in history with my head held high and with a...
Nonetheless, Bountiful sprouts because of the inherent interest it encourages in the lives of these four characters. But the film is like a Texas-based Four Characters in Search of a Plot, with enough genuine emotion to sustain it, but not quite enough action to avoid straying into gratuitous sentimentality...