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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Before John Morgan's (Tim McInnerney) bloody mess demands any attention, the brewing uncertainty and turbulence here remains neatly capped beneath the calm British exteriors. Jean Travers (Vanessa Redgrave) is a well-liked schoolteacher who has a number of close friends and a lovely Yorkshire cottage. There certainly are hints of loneliness beneath the cheerfulness, but it takes Morgan's suicide to knock loose her stifled memories...
From that moment, the film fragments and divides into three plots: the past (in which a young twenty-ish Jean--played by Redgrave's daughter Joely Richardson--soars through her first and most powerful romance); dinner-party flashbacks that might lead to some explanation of Morgan's mess; and the present--we see Jean coming to grips with why he "did it" to her as well as some impressively incisive glimpses into the lives of several of Jean's new acquaintances...
...year; the machine-gun slaying last year of Alan Berg, a Jewish radio talk-show host in Denver; and other crimes ranging from bank robberies to counterfeiting. Special Assistant U.S. Attorney Robert Ward launched the Government's case by stating that he would prove, with testimony and documents, that Jean Craig, the only woman defendant, did reconnaissance for the Berg shooting and that Bruce Carroll Pierce acted as triggerman. Ward also asserted that Order members received tax-free "salaries" of $20,000 annually and bonuses from crimes furthering Order goals. In response, Defense Attorney Fred Leatherman, representing Randolph Duey, called...
...fact Theresa Russell's pouty, luscious incarnation of the blonde bombshell is about the only reason to stay with this film after the novelty of its first half hour wears off. As Marilyn in her pre-platinum youth, Russell looks more like Kathleen Turner than Norma Jean Baker, but what's a little makeup among sex symbols? Besides, she so dominates her every onscreen moment that it's difficult not to chastise the superhumanly chaste Einstein for declining her offer of a roll...
Besides Young and Co-Captain Lisa Eskow, Farber will rely on juniors Jodi Cassell, Pascale Jean-Louis and Stephanie Salinas, and sophomores Kelly Abraham and Suzie Tapson...