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...movie's plot revolves around the sexual involvement (the script makes it hard to call it love) between a conventional teenaged girl and an Angry Young Man Tracey Prescott (Daryl Hannah) is a pretty, blonde teenager from a wealthy family. She is surrounded by boring, anxious people, from a standardized younger brother (Billy Jacoby) to an overbearing, money-minded mother (Lois Smith) to a bland boyfiend. Randy Daniels (Adam Baldwin), who wears expensive sweaters and is class president...
Three performances particularly stand out: James Houghton as Brick. Hannah Cox as Maggie, and Jon King as Big Daddy. Each one-envelops his character, letting the lines prompt his actions and reveal his own particular inner turmoil: Houghton's Brick, who is Big Daddy's son and Maggie's husband, drowns himself in alcohol and gradually becomes alive as he is forced to explain why he has turned away from the world and steeped himself in his own self-disgust. Houghton endows Brick with a taut passivity; his physical outlashes stun us with their uncontrollable violence, revealing his character...
...custom of the sharpened axiom continues. Elizabeth Bowen's "Memory is the editor of one's sense of life" is a Shakespearean perception; Peter De Vries' "Gluttony is an emotional escape, a sign that something is eating us" belongs with the best of the Edwardians. Hannah Arendt's observation compresses the century down to a sentence: "Power and violence are opposites; where one rules absolutely, the other is absent...
...tour. "Levaster banged him a hard blow against the heart. He saw French come alive and turn a happy regard to the court." What happens when these three characters mix, along with their assorted relatives, friends and lovers, is deliberately unbelievable; in extending two stories into a sketchy novel, Hannah creates a sequel as sideshow. The true star is Hannah's protean comic prose. He can deadpan with the best of them. Says Bob Smith, explaining why he has stolen a dead friend's extensive collection of books: "I never had an education except school." Even closer...
...charge $ 11.95 for a little more than 100 pages of new material seems, on the face of it, outrageous. Yet Hannah's weird, obsessed intensity justifies the extravagance...