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...Small Affair could, indeed, be a funnier Risky Business: the tale of a camera, a boy, and his loss of innocence. Instead, the film becomes so clumsy that innocence is less lost than simply misplaced between attempts to capture the pop teen market with enlarged pinip posters of Laura (Demi Moore) and a "ssure-hit" soundtrack...
...Laura (Demi Moore) enters the picture as a block in Charles's viewfinder: she's standing in front of a boat he wants to photograph. In person, she stirs Charles about as much as if she were his lens cap, or maybe a free. But somewhere between the wharf and the darkroom, her photo becomes something more. Out a mix of photo dots. Lawra becomes line Love, the antuhesis to the cheap sex hunger pains of Charles's brother...
Brother I conard wants to take him to a topless club: Charles would rather dive into a bed covered with Laura's pictures. An amateur philosopher, Leonad pontificates. "Look, sex has nothing to do with love: you can wash off sex," but Charles asks only to take Laura's picture with her clothes on, Leonard gets Charles a hooker, and the high school photo addict asks only...
Have we met the Great Modern Romantic? Hardly. A poet he may be, but not a Poe writing of the loss of his wife. He's another Keats hymning a Greek urn, not because Charles seeks a relationship deeper than with the hooker he hugs, but because Laura, like the urn, stirs some aesthetic last...
...something called the talisman, all will be well. Part of the journeying will be through a parallel world called the Territories, a kind of theme-park Camelot, where "they have magic like we have physics." Some earthlings have "twinners" there-Jack's mother is, almost, the dying Queen Laura, and his uncle Morgan, a greedy Hollywood agent, is a medieval menace who lurks in the shadows...