Word: mutt
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...pedigrees and beauty pageants rather than canine well- being? Legitimate breeders, who supply customers with beautiful but sometimes damaged puppies? Puppy mills, which do the same but at much higher volume and in search of greater profits? Or the public, more insistent with each passing year that a mutt -- a "randomly bred dog," to be politically correct -- simply...
...unfair to single anyone out of this extraordinary cast, but the lunatic self-assurance of Tim Robbins as a motorcycle cop stealing his own children's dog (he hates the mutt), conducting an affair and covering his absences with tall tales of undercover drug investigations is hatefully hilarious. His braying boldness represents one emotional extreme in the picture. The other (the one that touches the most lives, and whose story is structurally the center of the film) is played, with great delicacy, by Andie MacDowell and Bruce Davison as the couple trying to cope with their child...
...sleeps all day, hogs the best chair, is afraid of rain and regards the vacuum cleaner as an enemy. Yet the child narrator looks upon her pet as a blend of heroine and best friend. Boodil would agree, and so will any reader with a lazy and lovable mutt...
...plot of "Strangers on Earth" is somewhat weak; the play is carried by frequent one-liners, often in series. Mutt, commenting on the disastrous effects of alcohol, notes that "Absolut corrupts absolutely." Margaret, dealing with the stress of losing a job by shopping, observes: "When things get tough, the tough get things." A wide variety of puns liven up a script that might otherwise be lifeless...
Margaret and Mutt find common ground in the end, but the many of the characters remain unsatisfied at the play's conclusion--Hank isolated, Pony despairing and Pris only tenuously optimistic...