Word: jessicas
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...ABRUPTLY, the film takes an unsettling plunge into gloom, as the beleaguered couple arrives in Buffalo to see Paula's parents (Burnard Hughes and Jessica Tandy.) In her old home, Paula finds her vague dread about wedlock confirmed: her parents now live in a sadly senescent twilight, paying little attention to each other on the eve of their 40th anniversary. And Richard has to suffer sleeping by himself on his honeymoon, not to mention Paula's mother's well-meaning attempt to serve him grits in homage to his Southern background. The fledgling marriage, nurtured in the hedonistic sunlight...
...film does have a few nice touches. The couple's hurried wedding in a Hispanic chapel with the preacher's very broken English is quite charming. And with the little material they have, the Broadway veterans Jessica Tandy and Barnard Hughes perform their customary wonders of characterization...
HOFFMAN IS SO CONVINCING as Dorothy that the fact that two men fall in love with him isn't disgusting but rather hilarious because Dorsey in turn--has fallen in love with Julie, who thinks he is a women Jessica Lange's Julie is unassuming and she links all three of Hottman,s characters. As the nurse in the soap opera. Tootsie's best friend and the woman Dorsey loves. She is kind, beautiful and pliable. In a quietly seductive was she draws out Dorsey's actions Dorsey's weekend at juhe's father's country farm epitomizes Hottman...
...Those who hew to goodness and revere the customs of their forebears are rarely met with on a New York stage. Here they are in this tale of Appalachian tenacity, fashioned by Susan Cooper and Hume Cronyn. And who better to memorialize their griefs and joys than Cronyn and Jessica Tandy? Good. How does a liberal-minded German classics professor become Eichmann's right-hand man at Auschwitz? In C.P. Taylor's play, the gifted Alan Howard makes the insidious slope to hell plausible and harrowing...
...picture is a skewed documentary about two professionals working hard to be both witty and romantic. This time they worked too hard. In an attempt, perhaps, to place a discreet distance between confession and comedy, they allowed the tone of their script to become jarringly uneven. Barnard Hughes and Jessica Tandy, as Paula's parents, are repositories of senile pathos; Audra Lindley, as Richard's mom, is a shtik figureggressively annoying the next, with sutures provided by background music that never lets the viewer discover a mood on his own. One can still savor the moments when Reynolds and Hawn...