Word: hurts
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...William Hurt is Molina, a homosexual window dresser in his 30's sentenced to eight years with no parole for "corrupting a minor"; his cellmate, Valentin, played by Raul Julia, is a political prisoner held without trial and frequently tortured to disclose the names of his fellow Marxist rebels...
...would be facile merely to agree Hurt is outstanding in his part. His performance is central to the film--it's all about the taking of chances. Molina is a risky role, and one Hurt could easily have blown. Instead, with a Best Actor award at Cannes for his effort, as well as the near-unanimous praise of domestic critics, it appears he is a shoo-in for an Oscar nomination come February...
...they're going to strike where it'll really hurt...
...Well, I think the long pass hurt us when he outrebounded us at the beginning of the second half and what really turned the game around was the atrocious punting of [Peter] Murphy, who will never kick for me again. Here's a veteran athlete at Columbia that would go in and kick that poorly when we needed it. And their special teams, their return guy really turned the game around. He gave them the momentum that they did not have. I'm proud of the first half. They kicked the crap out of Harvard...We were sitting...
...Edward Herrmann, playing her husband. Angrily but without self-pity, he makes the case of the drudge-aholic whose toil supports his spouse's self-realization but whose reward is often a diagnosis that he has an intimacy problem. Like such other New York stage stalwarts as Mary Beth Hurt and Judith Ivey, he is well cast and directed by Frank Perry. They are figures who seem really to live in this landscape. Susan Isaacs' adaptation of her own novel is a socially observant example of an almost vanished genre, the comedy- mystery with blessedly discreet romantic overtones...