Word: harrisons
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Since then we have probably seen more Presidents onscreen than, say, strippers and volcanologists combined. We have seen Presidents and ex-Presidents as the lead in a romantic comedy (The American President), as crabby partners in a road movie (My Fellow Americans), as an ambiguous foil for action hero Harrison Ford (Clear and Present Danger), as a work-obsessed '90s dad (First Kid), as battlers of alien invaders (Independence Day, Mars Attacks!) and, perhaps most disturbing of all, as Alan Alda (Canadian Bacon...
This summer, in Air Force One, we will have the opportunity to envision what it would be like to have a Chief Executive, played by Harrison Ford himself, who can deal Die Hard-style with international terrorists when they make the mistake of commandeering his plane. "He's not a ninja or anything," explains Armyan Bernstein, one of Air Force One's four producers, "but he knows how to fight." The back story is that this President served in Vietnam as a helicopter pilot and won a Congressional Medal of Honor for fighting his way out of the jungle after...
Maybe yes, maybe no. But before either the studio or the audience takes a write-off on this one, we should recall that those two stars, Harrison Ford and Brad Pitt, are known for their ability to open a picture. More important, we should take into account the fact that this is really quite a good movie--a character-driven (as opposed to whammy-driven) suspense drama--dark, fatalistic and, within its melodramatically stretched terms, emotionally plausible...
...Brad Pitt?s Frankie McGuire is an assassin for an unnamed group of Northern Irish terrorists sent to America to evade the British secret service, whose noose is beginning to tighten around him. Given an assumed name and occupation, he enters the country, and the home of Harrison Ford?s Tom O?Meara, as an ordinary immigrant needing a sponsor. Since Tom is a New York City cop of unquestionable honesty, Frankie?s cover is perfect. The script (by David Aaron Cohen, Vincent Patrick and Kevin Jarre) is good about not making too much of this relationship, subtly foreshadowing...
...worn thin. The carnal phase is really an epilogue. Soon the father has shed religion in favor of breeding attack dogs, and the daughter has decamped for New York City to write "a post-modern novel." One hesitates to question the veracity of a book labeled a memoir, but Harrison's overheated prose and her sketchy characters and settings make this more a purple tale than a glimpse of truth...