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Geraldine Page excels as the mother of a crooked cop who accidently dies, while Charlie and Paulie are robbing the safe. In her cameo-role, Page reveals the strength behind her character's alcoholic, chain-smoking passivity. And as Charlie's aerobic-dancing girl-friend Diane. Daryl Hannah proves her ability as a serious actress. She poignantly leaves Charlie, because she realizes he will always be "just one inch away from being honest." Diane refuses to compromise her values, despite her love for Charlie, and we feel her pain as she discovers that Charlie loves Paulie more than...

Author: By Rebecca J. Joseph, | Title: The Pope Prevails | 7/3/1984 | See Source »

...want us to interfere. Not even the kid." Gifford responds to this fractured and isolationist image by blindly attempting to establish feeling contact with some of the warped souls he encounters in this "odyssey," as he calls it. It is not enough to see Kimberly Ann Regan's girl-friend cry and lament her own suffering over a pastromi sandwich during lunch-hour, then leave her for other witnesses. He must call her back, days later, past 3 a.m. in the morning, to find out how she's doing, and attempt stubbornly and hopefully to find a continuity in these...

Author: By Philip Weiss, | Title: Philip Marlowe and Jesus Christ on Cape Cod | 9/15/1975 | See Source »

...comedy, even though the film manages to reach an ending that has all the simple-minded cheeriness of an updated Gallic episode of Leave it to Beaver. Witness: 15-year-old Laurent Chevalier, shoes in hand, tiptoes into his room after spending the night with a new girl-friend. He freezes when he spots, waiting for him in the room, his two older brothers and his father--whose threatening look demands an explanation for his son's absence. While Laurent is still standing in awkward silence, his mother enters, sizes up the situation with a glance, and begins to look...

Author: By Bill Beckett, | Title: The Murmur of the Heart | 11/10/1971 | See Source »

...laughter so easy in such a difficult situation? It isn't that The Murmur of the Heart is the kind of comedy that permits easy nonsequiturs, and it isn't that the advent of Laurent's girl-friend is preferable for everyone concerned to Laurent's incestuous leanings toward his mother. That laughter is by no means inevitable within the context of the film, but Malle's real point is the film's peculiar anti-Romantic heresy. Subtly suggesting the possibility of all kinds of psychological traps for its intelligent and very sensitive adolescent hero (including homosexuality, transvestism, a penchant...

Author: By Bill Beckett, | Title: The Murmur of the Heart | 11/10/1971 | See Source »

...first four episodes, hero Scott takes girl-friend Emily to see Citizen Kane. discusses the film with her and his love-life with friends B. N. C. and Harvard culture-cultist Steve, takes his suit to the dry cleaners in preparation for a date at the Museum of Fine Arts with Emily, and meets authoritarian proprietor Kane and dissatisfied employee Manny Washington I, who takes Steve's suit to wear for an employment interview and who gets the job as a part of an exhibit at the Museum, but who loses the suit to playwright Francine and actor Bradford...

Author: By Bill Beckett, | Title: Soap Operas Harvard Square | 3/31/1971 | See Source »

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