Word: forsythe
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...newest battlefield of racial conflict. Coretta King, Hosea Williams, Joseph Lowery, Andrew Young -- some of them had demonstrated with Martin Luther King in Montgomery, and some in Selma, and some in Washington, and now they had gathered with more than 20,000 supporters to march through Cumming, in Forsyth County, Ga., to protest the immutable racism there and the resurgence of racism elsewhere. And though King had been shot down 19 years ago, this was the week for observing his birthday as a national holiday, and so, in a sense, King was there...
Parker's picture is no artistic sequel to Gregory's Girl or any of Forsyth's other works. This Scottish stew has more sugar than spice...
...WALKED in on John Gordon-Sinclair of Gregory's Girl in a romantic comedy in the now familiar Glasgow setting, would you think "Gregory's Girl II"? The latest Bill Forsyth film...
Unfortunately, the answer is none of the above. The Girl in the Picture has its funny moments, but writer-director Parker's Forsyth clone doesn't measure up to the original product...
Parker filmed The Girl in the Picture in Forsyth's vignettes-from-real-life style, but he left out a crucial ingredient. Forsyth's films have a subtle, underlying madcap element that gives his productions an air of unseen comic conspiracy intruding on the mundane world. Despite its humor and certain intermittent absurdities, The Girl in the Picture remains basically a mundane portrayal of romantic love...