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Victor and Matthew are accompanied by their teenaged daughters, Jennifer (Michelle Johnson) and Nicki (Demi Moore). While the foursome drive along the strip of beach upon arriving at Rio and notice sun bleached bodies cavorting on the sand, Victor asks "Maybe we should talk about 'boys." We see however, as the film progresses, that Victor's parental concerns do not extend any farther than the brief car ride. In fact by the end of the film, we begin to wonder who the children really...
...Stevens must have thought that Rio exudes an atmosphere that sparks improbable romances. How else could one explain the affair between the sheepish Matthew and the sultry Jennifer. Since no legitimate explanation can be gleaned from the script, we are forced to believe Jennifer's explanation, when she tells Nicki "I've always had a crush on your father...
...second half was more even, with Dartmouth still getting the slight edge in mid-field play. But Dartmouth's pressure finally paid off when sophomore Nicki Demakis fired a bullet past Lamont to the far post on a penalty corner 16 minutes into the second half...
...urge was to destroy; sexual conquest for the sake of humiliating a woman was the first duty of a man to himself." Stretched between a Hispanic past and American future, Max imo has the makings of a tragic figure, "his feet slipping each time he tried to turn about." Nicki, foulmouthed, man hungry and bound by family code and prejudice, is almost endearing as she figuratively holds her nose to conduct a secret affair with Maximo...
...author has been accused of many things, though never of wearying his readers. Some, however, may be dissatisfied with the loose connections between Teenager's story and that of Maximo and Nicki. Both story lines meander and end abruptly as if Breslin had run out of anecdotes. But he is a brilliant descriptive journalist and compensates on nearly every page with energetic, often humorous scenes...