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When it's at its best Paper Moon comes across like a country wanderer's ballad, replete with lyrics about lonesome roads and hard times, and the resonance of Midwestern vistas and old time hotels. And indeed, Paper Moon is often at its best. Ryan O'Neal and his real life ten-year-old daughter, Tatum, successfully play a May-December couple who travel through depression Kansas trying to scrape by until they pull off a big enough con game to retire for life. Their travels are like an up-river adventure, each bend offering an old town to back...
When Paper Moon lags it is because of the elder O'Neal. The innocence that made him the modern American lover in Love Story and Peyton Place is a confusing image in the tough times of depression Kansas. It's hard to get at what he is or what he feels. He is a leading man without character, like Charlton Heston would be without physical presence. He seems to nullify every forward step he takes...
Superfly TNT is at least a shred more believable. It shows some flashes of hard wit and has a good, coarse sense of the criminal trades. Priest (Ron O'Neal), former street hustler and cocaine pusher, is now in residence in Rome with his fine woman (Sheila Frazier), living high but a little aimlessly. What finally gets him interested is the plight of a West African nation fighting for independence against a repressive colonial regime. In return for a leather pouch full of diamonds, and the chance to do a little something constructive for a change, Priest gets...
Paper Moon. Lots of tears wrung out of the story directed by Peter Bogdanovitch about the chumming up of a team as old and as wet as the thirties. Ryan O'Neal plays a con man who makes a fast-talking living by selling just-widowed, bereaved old ladies Bibles that he has personalized in gold on the covers after gleaning the victims' names out of the local want ads. His real-life daughter (Tatum O'Neal) is an 11-year-old tomboy, and a leech so tough that she pulls a quicker con over her big-mouthed but slow...
Paper Moon. Lots of tears wrung out of the story directed by Peter Bogdanovitch about the chumming up of a team as old and as wet as the thirties. Ryan O'Neal plays a con man who makes a fast-talking living by selling just-widowed, bereaved old ladies Bibles that he has personalized in gold on the covers after gleaning the victims' names out of the local want ads. His real-life daughter (Tatum O'Neal) is an 11-year-old tomboy, and a leech so tough that she pulls a quicker con over her big-mouthed but slow...