Word: nelligan
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...entirely loosen his grip on our imaginations. Now he has proved that even an excess of good taste cannot entirely ground him. Not permitted to parody romantic menace as he was able to do on the stage, Langella shows himself capable of playing it straight and slightly melancholic. Kate Nelligan, as Lucy, the young woman who enthralls him and is herself enthralled, is superbly spirited. In the film's early scenes, she plays the part as a liberated lady, turn-of-the-century variety. Once Dracula has begun to work his will on her, she becomes a resourceful woman...
...this wet afternoon, 16 students, ten to twelve years of age, are sitting in a circle at the Bridge Elementary School. They are all children of divorce. "It's just called a support group," says Frank Nelligan, the elementary school counselor who meets with this and similar groups once a week. Today one question before the group is whether a film on divorce that it has just seen should be shown to children whose parents are not divorced...