Word: max
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...parents are letting me take one of the Van Goghs and the two Monets. I hope you're not into Realism, or anything so tacky as Peter Max prints or Linda Ronstadt posters...
Silvio Narizzano's portrait of Max's attempts to learn them scruffy varmints their educational rudiments is adequate. He might have used color to better effect in portraying the relentless winter nights that settle over the grain fields; or further developed his political commentary, which stops at simplistic socialism...
...Cort's Max, while as wide-eyed and clumsy as Buster Keaton, fails to add the vibrant punch that his mordant Harold could not escape. Nor does love interest Samantha Eggar provide anything more than good, solid acting...
...these parts--Narizzano's smooth camerawork, Cort's lurching educator, Eggar's rough-hewn farmer's wife, and the dozen kids who make up Max Brown's class--is a satisfying whole, not unlike My Brilliant Career. The settings are different, of course, and the heroine in search of a career is now a hero, but the tone of each film is the same: gritty, vivacious, and indomitable...
...these films have a "real" quality is to say we are gritty, vivacious and indomitable. In a way, we are; but even more, we respect these attributes wherever we see them. Clifford Peache and Max Brown are no more real than girls who race to lose their virginity (Little Darlings) or boys who love to destroy (The Warriors). But they embody a type of reality to which most of us aspire, which makes them both--even without Archie and Betty--wonderful films about growing...