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...very bright future," Gramm said at a lunch at the 1992 G.O.P. convention in Houston. "I have no doubt in my mind, Rick someday is either going to be Governor of our state or a Senator from Texas." Four years later, the scenarios still simmer; Gramm or junior Senator Kay Bailey Hutchison could get a Cabinet post, rekindling Perry's Senate dreams...
What they get instead is a surrogate maiden aunt. Her name is Elaine. She is a clerk in a maternity boutique. What she knows about birthing babies has been gleaned from how-to books, about life from the dubious aphorisms of inspirational literature. But she is played by Mary Kay Place with a wondrous blend of primness and spunk. The girls may hobble her ankles to prevent escape, but they can't hobble a simple, can-do spirit convinced that their reform must be built on a foundation of nourishing casseroles...
...which tells the story of two orphaned sisters on the run, this fact becomes harder and harder to ignore, as the film is buffeted about by the tired-eyed wonder of the younger and the stilted bluster of the elder. Apart from a consistently hilarious deadpan performance by Mary Kay Place, the story remains dreamy and quirky, but, almost too faithful to its vagabond kiddie heroes, a little grating and puzzling...
...convention hereafter referred to as "Manny" and "Lo," survive through shoplifting, house-breaking-and-sleeping-in, and the liberal use of their deceased mother's station wagon. When Lo gets undeniably pregnant, the spunky pair adds a bigger crime to their misdemeanors and kidnap a staid ex-nurse (Mary Kay Place) incongruously behind the counter at one of those sickeningly precious baby supplies stores. They then hole up at an abandoned country house. Barring some frenzied running around at the end, most of the film takes place there amidst woodsy surroundings (where, inexplicably, a seemingly tropical lizard lives...
Fortunately, to keep us distracted, Mary Kay Place has a hilarious turn as the eminently calm and collected adult (further skewing things). As she repeatedly declares that she has never been wrong ("Knock on wood..."), we realize that if she were just a tad overdone she could well be a secret basket case. She delivers several of the most memorable lines of the movie, lecturing to her "captors," as she calls them while serving them her signature culinary creation, known simply and ominously as "Hot Dish...