Word: keaton
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Heckerling 4 to 1, Johnny Dangerously offers more verbal felicity than it does visual flair. Heckerling has no feeling, affectionate or malevolent, for the genre she is trying to parody and no sense of comic rhythm either. The result is a thin and clumsy thing, in which talented Michael Keaton leads a cast of good actors in search of the missing beat. Only the redoubtable Maureen Stapleton, listening to some wild pulse of her own, finds something she can dance...
Talk about meeting cute. The handsome young man (Mel Gibson) bolts from his cell on Pittsburgh's death row and lands smack on top of the warden's beautiful wife (Diane Keaton). Ron Nyswaner's script is based on fact--a 1901 jailbreak masterminded by the young matriarch who had fallen in love with one of the convicts--but the tone is pure High Hollywood elegiac. This is revolution as amour fou, which Diane Keaton knows something about from her turns as Louise Bryant in Reds and the frazzled Mata Hari in The Little Drummer Girl. Keaton and Australian Director...
...plot summary can do the movie or the book justice--but suffice it to say it makes following soap operas seem like child's play. Charly (Diane Keaton) is an American actress in England with romantic yearnings for a cause. When she goes to hear a speech by a bemasked and decidedly debonair PLO member, Charly falls hard for him and only slightly less hard for his message. A part in a wine commercial brings her to the island of Mykonos where--surprise, surprise--she meets up with the handsome terrorist...
...Charly, the flightly, tough-on-the-outside-soft-on-the-inside actress, Keaton is wonderful. Minus Woody Allen and Warren Beatty who tend to upstage her, Keaton's performance is genuinely fresh and appealing. Her ditzyness, which was overdone in Annie Hall and Manhattan, is put to good use here. When the Israelis draft her to drive a car wired with tons of explosives, she accidentally puts it into reverse and crashes into a tree at top speed, much to the amusement of her hardened Israeli cohorts, who haven't had this much fun in years. Even terrorists have...
Like the book, the movie leaves the viewer trying to tamp down an ungrateful feeling of boredom and impatience. In recounting the story of how an unhappy and unsuccessful repertory actress named Charlie (Diane Keaton) is recruited and trained by an Israeli intelligence team to penetrate a Palestinian terrorist organization in order to kill its leader, Director George Roy Hill (The World According to Garp, Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid) matches Le Carré's heavy spirit. He is a careful workman who does an honest day's labor for an honest dollar, but he lacks...