Word: heroicize
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...architect's play with scale is apparent in the monumental entrance to the building, which rises 57 feet and leads into a foyer of heroic proportions. This light, open area includes an enormous staircase that rises to the top floor of the building. Alongside the stairway, early Christian Coptic reliefs are inset in the bands of color--these are the only pieces of art currently inside the Sackler...
...Shepherd, as Gil Ivy, a good husband and kind father who buckles under the threat of losing his farm, is much more believable, if less heroic, than his on-screen wife. While the script leaves Gil's character largely undeveloped. Shepherd does a marvelous job with what part he has, bringing a freshness and honesty to his lines that are sorely missing from the rest of the film...
What follows is a predictably heroic attempt by Stuart--the educated, urbanized outsider--to save the town from itself. He suspects that a toxic substance is causing the townspeople to repress the emotional mechanism designed to curb passions, literally lifting the lid off the id. His discoveries come--unsurprisingly--too late. The film's closing minutes play like a spinoff of The Stepford Wives...
...character he played in the 1980 movie Melvin and Howard. The lovable lout has turned into a dangerous brute; LeMat's subtle achievement is to s show that both are one. The rest of the cast, especially Richard Masur as Francine's bland, earnest, ultimately heroic attorney, is uniformly excellent...
...SUCCESS of "Places in the Heart," Robert Benton's new film about life in the South during the Great Depression, lies with its ability to give heroic proportions to everyday events. Sunday chicken dinners, cotton harvesting, and spring storms are the stuff of this small town tragedy, and in an era when a film's success can depend upon the size of its special effects budget, such intimacy is a welcome change...