Word: leos
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Miller, and in many ways it outdoes the book. The characters in the movie are far more appealing than those in the novel. Watching them evokes sympathy, while reading about them provokes mainly dislike. As divorced mother Anna Dunlap, Diane Keaton is likeable and unpretentious. When she meets Leo, her lover-to-be, in a laundromat, the scene is free from the air of sleaze that surrounds it in the book...
...never felt romantically fulfilled. We empathize with Anna when she tells a friend about the emptiness of her sex life with Brian and feel her pain when Molly leaves to spend the weekend with her father, just as we later sense the sudden, expansive joy that she finds with Leo...
Anna meets Leo in a Harvard Square laundromat. (Not least appealing in the film is its local color--several scenes were filmed on location in Harvard Square and Boston where the story takes place. Look for people you know...
...Leo, Liam Neeson is carefree, appealing, and sensitive--a personality completely different from the slightly slimy character of Miller's novel. The Leo of the movie is definitely not the type who makes a habit of picking up women in laundromats...
THROUGH her relationship with Leo, it seems as though Anna will finally be able to become the passionate, carefree person she wants to be. But the dream is shattered when her ex-husband, Brian (James Naughton), accuses Leo of sexually molesting Molly (Asia Vieria), their six-year old child, and brings a custody suit against his ex-wife...