Word: kids
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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SOMETHING IS WRONG in Lake Forest, Ill. A kid dies in a boating accident. His brother, Conrad, who was there when it happened, tries to kill himself. Later, he has nightmares, so he goes to see a psychiatrist. His father doesn't have nightmares, but he goes to see the psychiatrist too. Conrad's old girlfriend kills herself. Conrad gets better; his mother leaves his father. Pretty soon, we get the point--everyone here is getting divorced and seeing a psychiatrist and killing himself...
...cigarettes, drinks bottomless cups of coffee, wears shawl-collared cardigans to the office, and agrees to be Conrad's "friend" for 50 bucks an hour. It seems as if Redford should be satirizing this too, all these people saying "Do you want to talk about it?"; satirize the dumb kid who wants to kill himself as well, if it weren't too cruel--but no, he likes easy targets, WASPishness, the swimming coach...
...mass transit; there are more buses and cabs and subways in this movie than you would want to count. Oh, yeah, and a saxophone: urban, right? Cassavetes also wrote the script, and like many scripts written by ex-actors it is bad, plagued by longeurs of dialogue between a kid who's too young to be interesting and a woman who lacks even that excuse. And a lot of "tough talk": "Okay you bananas" or an exchange like this: "Gimme a beer." "Any particular kind?" "Cold...
...Washington Street and they used to tease her when I wasn't around. One day I was late and she came early. They teased her about her clothes. She never came back. I tried to tell her just to ignore them, but it was kind of hard for a kid...
...like the kid you always envied growing up. The one who has life layed out perfectly--no creases...