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When Susan Traherne (Kate Nelligan) was 17, she served as a courier with the French Resistance. It struck a harmonic chord of valor that haunts her during the rest of her frustrating life. In flashbacks and flashforwards, Plenty ranges from World War II through the '50s and '60s. Back in London, Susan blurs into the social canvas, drifting in and out of jobs, romances, causes, too self-indulgent and too undisciplined to harness her energies to her high self-expectations...
Deep-cover Nazi agent kicks off his covers and must try to pull them up over him again-at least until the submarine picks him up, and he can get back to Germany with the Allied invasion plans. Donald Sutherland plays the spy, code-named Needle, and Kale Nelligan is a miserably married woman, living with her embittered husband on a remote island off the Scottish coast. Naturally the Needle washes up there. Naturally they fall in love. Naturally, in the end, she must choose between love and patriotic duty. As a bestseller, this was a good read...
...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...
...present fire house in Brattle Square was condemned some time ago, when the City requested the proposed exchange. Harvard consented, and the matter was referred to the Council which submitted to Nelligan the legal aspects of the question. There is some doubt as to whether Harvard will be able to erect buildings on Holmes Place, which is common ground, originally part of the City Common...