Word: lad
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Lucy Honeychurch (Helena Bonham Carter), an understated but passionate girl from Surrey, is on holiday in Florence when she meets and unconsciously falls in love with an impetuous, progressive-thinking English lad, George Emerson (Julian Sands...
...nothing to his wife Dorothy or his two grown sons Henry and Fred. Instead, the ardent Socialist once known as "the Red Rector of Rapstone" has bequeathed all of his shares in the family-owned brewery, which may be worth (pounds)2 million, to one Leslie Titmuss, a local lad who - has clawed his way into national prominence as a Conservative M.P. and a Cabinet Minister. Dorothy and Fred are inclined to let the inexplicable matter drop. But Henry, the elder son and a well-known writer, is infuriated and promises a campaign aimed at "defeating the abominable Titmuss." That...
...with women: his daughter is a rebellious flirt, his aging mistress carries herself like the ghost of swinging London, and his wife hexes the mistress with an evil spell concocted of mice and berries. When Uncle puts Omar in charge of a run-down Laundromat -- laundrette, in Britspeak -- the lad nicks a couple of packets of cocaine to finance a renovation; he calls the place Powders. Omar hires Johnny as his assistant, and the two fall into a tense, delicate master- slave tryst. In commerce and pleasure, Omar is a fast learner. How could he not be, with Uncle...
...boffo send-up of the President. Playing off the hit movie Risky Business, in which a high school senior throws a wild party when his parents are away, the skit had the Reagans at Camp David, leaving their son to look after the White House. Sure enough, a gyrating lad in undershorts dashes into the Oval Office wildly plucking a guitar and dancing like a man possessed. Wait a minute. That was no Tom Cruise playing the President's son. That was the President's son. "I thought it would stir things up," explained Ronald Prescott Reagan...
Perhaps one might think this viewpoint too harsh and wish to venture forth on the dreaded path to this film. Well, all I can say is, Godspeed m'lad or lass, you had better hurry to catch this one, and if you can stomach more than 40 minutes of this garbage, you're a better man or lady than...