Word: getaways
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...realize that; there is something unemphatic in his handling of material that needs to be sharper. The acting is good. Lange is hard and dizzy, Saint James mousy and distracted, Curtin self-pitying yet capable. When called upon to improvise a striptease in order to cover her pals' getaway, she is both game and sexy. Her developing relationship with a shy policeman, expertly played by Dabney Coleman, adds a pleasant grace note to an edgy, insinuating comedy...
...warm day in Belfast. That afternoon Anne Maguire, a 31-year-old mechanic's wife, was crushed against a school railing with her four children by a swerving getaway car used by terrorists of the Provisional I.R.A. The car's driver had been shot dead by pursuing British soldiers. Mrs. Maguire was hospitalized in a semiconscious state; it was several weeks before she fully comprehended that three of her children had been killed...