Word: ex-girlfriend
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Then there is character development (ha, ha). Jonathan realizes realizes that his ex-girlfriend, who has recently abandoned him for a football quarterback, was not really what he wanted anyway. He now reaches manhood (surprise, surprise). He asks out the homely girl who has been vying for attention throughout the movie. She has been also suddenly been transformed into a beautiful woman by the time Jonathan asks her out, thus reducing his new found maturity to his earlier sex quest...
...assembly line, he sabotages the whole plant, and chuckles smugly at his dismissal. A go at car theft proves him equally "temperamentally unsuited" for that profession. So, he resigns himself to a life of surferdom. To prove he is not a mere child, Benson decides to marry an ex-girlfriend who is pregnant with someone else's child...
...alien being here is Chloe (Meg Tilly), Alex's ex-girlfriend, a decade younger and more limber, monitoring the action with eyes that have seen it all and ain't telling. You have to make eye contact with this wonderful ensemble of actors; the pregnant or averted glances they exchange constitute a geometry of tangled passions. JoBeth Williams can say more by directing her big sad eyes off-screen than volumes of Emily Dickinson; in Mary Kay Place's squint is the weather-beaten humor of a career woman who wants an emergency jolt of motherhood; William...
...head start gave Thevis plenty of time to leave the country, but McLean stayed behind in Atlanta, where she was arrested by the FBI as a material witness to the escape. Argues her attorney, Edward T.M. Garland: "She's a forlorn ex-girlfriend, abandoned and left to her own devices." Said willowy, henna-haired McLean a day after her arrest: "I just don't know where he is." On that point, at least, she seemed to be in good company...
...adult heroes in the book become weird variants of Groucho Marx, perhaps spawned by Michaels' boyhood watching the Yiddish theater: wise guys who fast-talk on capitalist society's turf and win. In "Reflections of a Wild Kid," Michaels's persona makes it with an ex-girlfriend by removing the woman's present boyfriend, a nerdish college professor. The persona's method: piss out the window of the woman's apartment, hide in the closet and let the police seize the wrong man--the boyfriend--when they come around. Michaels describes this as "genius...