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Behind him was a portrait of himself in Renaissance formal wear painted by actor Gene Hackman, according to Cramer’s nephew and consultant on the show, Cliff B. Mason ’07. Cramer befriended Hackman when the now-TV host was an investment fund manager...
...short, a grownup is a creature very much resembling Walter Lloyd (Gene Hackman), whose patient efforts to gain the respect of his son Chris (Matt Dillon) elicit nothing more than a succession of shrugs and silences. What can Dad possibly know about the soul of a lad who wants to be a race-car driver...
...Hackman's work is subtly alive to all the complexities of his character and his situation, and his path is strewn with good supporting actors. One cannot help offering a chortling cheer to a movie that throws demographic caution to the wind in order to celebrate geezer power. --By Richard Schickel
Twice in a Lifetime would deserve respectful attention if all it did were redress that imbalance. But the story of how the 30-year marriage of Steelworker Harry Mackenzie (Hackman in another solid performance) and his wife Kate (Ellen Burstyn) sunders has another dimension. Scenarist Welland (who wrote Chariots of Fire with another kind of class consciousness) and Director Yorkin (who created All in the Family with Norman Lear) want to use the Mackenzies' disorder to explore sympathetically an entirely unfashionable layer of life...
Family dramas are always an invitation to fine ensemble acting, and these players are up to it. Hackman brings life to realism as effectively as he brings realism to fantasy in Target. Burstyn clarifies her character without oversimplifying. She finds both repose and luminosity in Kate. Madigan is not afraid to let the audience dislike her abrasiveness, while Sheedy uses patience and stillness as a counterpoise. Only Ann-Margret is somewhat shortchanged by the script: her motives are never made fully clear. Sometimes, too, the movie feels overly tidy and pleased with its own humanism. But it unashamedly keeps scratching...