Word: lende
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...with high hopes burns out. Rona, portrayed by Kathy Twiss, is somewhat stereotypical: ex-hippie bemoans the moral void that supplanted the idealism of the Sixties. Rona reels off a year-by-year record of the protests of the Sixties, which is just boring. Twiss isn't able to lend much variety to her portrayal, and because Rona didn't go through much of a change until the Seventies, her obsessive rehashing of the Sixties is non-revelatory. When the spotlight settles on any of these three characters, one hopes it will soon move on to Sparger or Wanda...
Guiterrez said he hopes the Harvard name doesn't lend the book legitimacy...
...acting is for the most part good; however, the roles lend themselves to overacting because they are more form than substance and rely for characterization on idiosyncratic turns of phrase. Nonetheless, Howard, Siegel and Murad, who in addition to Nicky appears as various bit characters, give very strong performances, and manage to resist their characters' tendencies towards irritating extravagance...
Picture the ideal U.S. economy. It would grow at a steady pace but not so fast as to ignite inflation. Unemployment would fall as companies created hundreds of thousands of new jobs every month. Banks would have plenty of cash and be eager to lend it. And, best of all, these happy conditions would last...
...dark. The drama seems to unfold in an atmosphere of a funeral, the event that started the film. This worked well in the scenes in the new office building, producing a surreal, avant-garde effect. The acting, mise en scene, and the characters of "The Secret Rapture" seemed to lend themselves better to theater than to film. This is probably because Mr. Davies' prior experience was with the stage...