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Thomas as Andrew attracts a strong empathy and frequently tears as he faces the loneliness of losing his mother. In addition, he confronts alienation of his father (Gene Hackman), who is unable to comfort his sensitive son because of his own excruciating grief...
...film is set in Tunisia. It opens as Hackman's wife. Kate, is being buried. The remainder of the film elucidates the family's response to the apparent sudden death...
...throughout the film. Thomas and Hackman seem to be struggling to escape from the rather meaningless lines that have been provided for them. When Andrew calls his father in the desert after an argument, he says desperately, "don't worry. Dad, I'll pay for the call. You can take it out of my allowance." Thomas pulls off this unfathomable statement with a desperate, sometimes shrill voice, making the audience wish that the actors could have had a better script to develop their characters...
...incompetence, and you won't want to miss Two of a Kind. Five years ago, these two appealing stars teamed for the monster hit Grease. Now Writer-Director John Herzfeld has chosen a different 1978 hit to emulate and trash: Heaven Can Wait. God (the voice of Gene Hackman) sends a quartet of angels (led by Charles Durning) to earth to help a couple of mean-mouthed losers (guess who?). Nothing works: not the whimsy, not the melodrama, not even the food fight in the Palm Court of the Plaza Hotel. A stupefying shambles, Two of a Kind just...
Likewise, the filmmakers offer up a stale love triangle between the three friends, whereby one (Hackman) is torn between a television career and a woman (Cassidy) who in the meantime is falling in love with a mutual photographer friend (Nolte). While the whole menage a trois sounds as though it has possibilities, it is not developed too deeply and in the end it gets rather tiresome...