Word: jobeth
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Cathy Palmer (JoBeth Williams) is one such excitement-starved Middle American, a suburban housewife hooked on the trashy romantic adventures of a Modesty Blaise clone called Rebecca Ryan. Her execrable taste in literature can be excused as a casualty of her suburban lifestyle; a station wagon, two sons exuding Gary Colemanesque sass, and a husband who's idea of a romantic evening is his and hers spreadsheets...
...capital crime of this move is that Conti is not on screen enough. The inexplicably popular JoBeth Williams hogs more screen than her role or talent really deserve. She performs with commendable competence, but really, how hard is it to play a suburban housewife? Or a female Adam West...
...best teacher at JFK, and that is just the beginning of the school's problems. JFK is so bad that it is being sued by a former student for failing to fail him, and it has hired the best-looking legal help money can buy in the form of JoBeth Williams. Williams is also a grad of JFK who believes the suit will reform the unreformable...
...subject, but the film appears to have been the victim of an editorial chain-saw massacre. Whatever the executive reasons for reducing its three-hour running time to just over two may have been, considerations of dramatic coherence cannot have numbered high among them. The female lead (Jobeth Williams) dies offscreen, her passing noted in just a line or two of dialogue. Another major character, a farmer and family man (John Cullum), gets shot by squatters, and his widowed wife and orphaned children react only by turning toward the sound of the gun. Charac ters tumble in and out like...
...girlfriend, a decade younger and more limber, monitoring the action with eyes that have seen it all and ain't telling. You have to make eye contact with this wonderful ensemble of actors; the pregnant or averted glances they exchange constitute a geometry of tangled passions. JoBeth Williams can say more by directing her big sad eyes off-screen than volumes of Emily Dickinson; in Mary Kay Place's squint is the weather-beaten humor of a career woman who wants an emergency jolt of motherhood; William Hurt's eyes move like restless laser beams; Tom Berenger...