Word: husbanded
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Several dramatic performances stand out. Sarah Beatty, as a slightly confused and submissive wife, discovers the effects of marijuana, and as you might guess, forgets all the lessons of the proper housewife until her husband-knows-best mate (David Schiffman) decides that enough is enough. This scene puts you in the aisle with laughter; the two actors are so convincingly stoned that it makes you wonder just how potent this pot really...
...turned out all she had done was cook the same amount of meat until it was brown. Brody brings her lessons home. In print she promotes a diet high in carbohydrates and low in fats, sugar and salt. The pantry of the comfortable Brooklyn brownstone she shares with Husband Richard Engquist, 53, and their twin 17-year-old sons Erik and Lorin is stocked with grains, flour, beans, seeds, rice, potatoes and pasta. The family eats only 2 oz. of red meat three times a week. Salami, bologna, hot dogs, potato chips, cookies and soda never cross the threshold...
Even her family sometimes finds the rigors trying. Acknowledges Engquist, who stayed home to be the "nurturing parent": "Jane expects people to keep up with her, but her husband and children have different drummers. We don't." The boys balk at substituting cottage or farmer cheese for cream cheese. Engquist smokes, a habit Brody unceasingly rails against, and he limits his exercise to walking. His wife, in contrast, is ferociously athletic. Five times a week, though less in winter, she plays singles tennis. Every morning she rises at 5 a.m. and makes the family breakfast. After posting the menu matter...
...both Stalin and his dreaded secret police chief, Lavrenti Beria. Stalin never appears in the movie, but the main character, a local tyrant, is easily recognizable as Beria. Under his rule, people are arbitrarily arrested and then disappear. In one flashback, a woman searching for news of her missing husband hears about a delivery of logs carved with the names and addresses of prisoners. The woman searches in vain for her husband's name. Nearby another woman finds her loved one's name and caresses the log as if it were a baby. The two then watch in despair...
When the story returns to the present, the disinterred body of the dead despot repeatedly turns up in a garden. The grave robber is discovered to be the daughter of the woman with the missing husband. At her subsequent trial, the daughter argues that the actions of the past must not be buried, and is threatened with incarceration in a mental hospital -- a not uncommon fate of Soviet dissidents. The film ends with the woman's awakening to find it was all a dream. Repentance is exceptional because it is the first Soviet film to deal with Beria...