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...usually they work out rather well. Wilfred "It's the Right Thing to Do" Brimley as the firm's menacing security agent would seem to be a case of gross miscasting, but he pulls it off well. There's a hidden edge of steel to all of his genial suggestions to eat Quaker Oats after all. Holly Hunter as Tammy, the secretary/lover of a private detective killed while digging into the firm is a delight--she goes from persona to persona with razor-sharp acting and timing...
...fact the place is not so much a museum as a kind of genial time capsule about a small-town boy who made good. A snapshot of two-year-old Danny clutching a toy football, a small boy's grimace of determination on his face. A letter he wrote to his uncle when he was 12 explaining why he lost a nine- hole Jaycee golf tournament ("A 14-year-old kid who shot a 49 he ((sic)) beat me on the 17th"). A photo of an awestruck Dan as a college student shaking hands with Ronald Reagan (not unlike...
American movies are all talk, no listen. Jabber jabber, feint feint -- conversation is combat, a schoolyard dissing contest, a slightly more sophisticated version of "Your mother!" "No, yours!" In real life, and in French movies, people pretend to get along when they talk. They keep things light, genial, talking around the issues that burn them up inside. Some love affairs never begin because people are afraid to reveal what they feel; "I love you" is so hard to say. Some marriages can last a lifetime on the tacit agreement that hostilities will go unexpressed. The static is in the silences...
...well as their foot- and handholds. This makes for reasonably good fun. Director Harlin's only large mistake is staging the several violent deaths too authentically. They momentarily mar the high-speed implausibility of a movie that, like his Die Hard 2, agreeably combines the edgy and the genial...
BOOKS Scott Turow's Pleading Guilty is irresistible. A genial fictional view of a decaying Main Street. THEATER An Irish classic travels well to the Caribbean. MUSIC Perry Farrell's Porno for Pyros takes a wild ride. Steve Reich previews the opera of the 21st century...