Word: gunnysack
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Coplin (Ben Stiller), who has been raised by adoptive parents, sets out to find his birth parents. It's a perfectly reasonable thing to do, since the former are, respectively, a screeching bundle of nerves (Mary Tyler Moore--yes, our Mary, joyfully subverting her institutional self) and a gunnysack of defeats (George Segal). Accompanying Mel on this odyssey are his wife (Patricia Arquette), hoping that if he finds his roots he may also recover his lost libidinal energy; their baby; and a dysfunctional social worker (Tea Leoni), whose legs seem to have no end and who has a curious sideline...
This was the year when Puritanism (the oldest ghostly American mind-body reflex) went into business with advanced post-Modernist integrated id-sleaze. That was it: the American superego officially merged, at last, with the American id. Or anyway the two were fighting it out like cats in a gunnysack...