Word: hollywood
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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DOMINICK and Eugene is yet another of Hollywood's heartwarming movies with a predictable plot, but good acting, an enlightening peek at working-class Pittsburgh and reference to important social issues redeem the film...
Dominick and Eugene may sound like yet another Hollywood entry in the entertaining tear-jerker genre. It is, but it has a little extra substance. The film does consider social problems. Most of the film occurs in poor, working-class Pittsburgh. Although any conclusions drawn are not controversial (child abuse hurts those involved, and mentally "slow" people can be very nice), Dominick and Eugene can be commended for at least provoking thought about important issues...
...most improbable plot threads from Hollywood's blackest comedy thriller of the Camelot era unravel in real life: deja vu of McCarthyism, prophecy of the Kennedy assassination. The film's star, a Kennedy pal, withdraws this daft, dark masterpiece from theatrical circulation, then keeps it hidden for a quarter-century...
...should be confused by The Manchurian Candidate today. Axelrod's urbane cynicism plays like aces Wilde. Frankenheimer's aptly flashy technique is now a part of Hollywood's visual vocabulary. The performances are daring and assured, especially Lansbury's holy terror of Momism and Harvey's snide, pathetic pawn, brainwashed by both KGB AND CIA. And the movie's theory of endemic political corruption, which read as seditious in 1962, now feels like the sweet breath of reason. Few movies attempt to anatomize a whole sick society, to dissect the mortal betrayals of country, friend, lover and family; fewer films...
...Gunsmoke, it is hard to imagine tact. Scriptwriters for Hollywood's Top Gun didn't exaggerate. "I've always wanted to be a fighter pilot," says New Orleans Reservist and Viet Nam Veteran Major Craig Mays, 41, a burly A-10 pilot with blond hair and a Kennedyesque smile. "I'm going to be one until they take the uniform off my cold, dead body." The major's call sign is Darth Vader. Reservist Lieut. Colonel John Haynes, an Air National Guardsman from Georgia, was an F-4 "gib" (guy in back) in Viet Nam. He happily recalls "trolling" Haiphong...