Word: lindo
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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What ensues is some of the most embarrassingly forced "Odd Couple"-style romantic comedy this side of the Atlantic. The remainder of the plot revolves around two down-and-out angels (played by Delroy Lindo and a wonderfully peppy Holly Hunter) on a mission to unite Celine and Robert in the face of all sorts of adversity, not the least of which is Celine's blood-lusting father...
...film also suffers from being way too long, clocking in at two hours and 20 minutes (including a pointless 15-minute side plot that wastes the great Delroy Lindo in a clumsily caricatured role). Whenever the film begins to drag--which is pretty much whenever Pacino is off screen for more than ten minutes--Hackford throws in some nudity. Pacino excepted, nearly all the main characters get to run around at least once in their birthday suits...
...built a major airline from scratch) confronting an equally smart and ruthless kidnapper (Gary Sinise) and his dangerously fractious gang. At stake: the life of Tom's cruelly abducted son. The ransom: $2 million. Tom's wife (Rene Russo), the FBI man in charge of the case (Delroy Lindo) and everybody else involved, with conventional wisdom at their command, recommend paying up. In 7 out of 10 cases, the G-man tells Tom, this leads to the child's return. These odds, however, are obviously less than certain. And after a couple of close, sadistic encounters with the criminals...
...natural sympathy for the Carmichaels is sabotaged by crude and careless moviemaking. The first half of the film is a jumble of pointless anecdotes that fail to pull into a compelling narrative scheme or establish characters of any dimension. The boys squabble endlessly, humorlessly, inconsequentially, and Lindo and Woodard, both fine actors, are given only one note apiece to sound, respectively patience and impatience. In a middle passage, little Troy is sent to visit relatives in the South for no particular reason, except possibly to register Lee's disdain of smug bourgeois ways, and to contrast this with the fractiousness...
...Carmichaels are a middle-class black family living in Brooklyn in the early '70s. The father, Woody (Delroy Lindo), is a jazz musician who doesn't get much work because he only wants to play music he respects. He is easygoing and indulgent of his children, four boys and a girl, Troy (played by the adorable and spirited Zelda Harris in her first major role). The mother, Carolyn (Alfre Woodard), is hardworking and hard-nosed. She loves the kids but believes in discipline and denial...