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...looks exactly like Sam's dream girl. To be near her he accepts promotions in the bureaucracy and learns firsthand $ of its comprehensive brutality. By the end he has been betrayed by a very modern Mengele of a surgeon (Michael Palin), rescued by the revolutionary Tuttle (Robert De Niro)--but, alas, it is just another dream, Sam's last one --and lobotomized with nothing in his mind but the old Ary Barroso tune Brazil...
Some actors--Robert De Niro, for example--pour themselves into a character and are all but unrecognizable from one film to another. Others, usually actors from the past like Gary Cooper or Cary Grant, pour the role into themselves. Grant could be a stumble-footed comic in pictures like Bringing Up Baby and Arsenic and Old Lace or an urbane romantic hero in To Catch a Thief or North by Northwest, but no one would ever have mistaken him for anyone but Cary Grant...
...barks when they cross him, "from now on I do my business with the Chinese!" Sporting a cad's mustache and Walter Denton's whiny voice, Penn is a funny, harrowing wonder of energy. No other young actor so cunningly combines the mannerist danger of the Brando-De Niro school with the articulate assurance of a stand-up comic. Hutton is just as fine in a role that demands--and gets --caged heat, the taste of a soul gone sour, sanctity imploding into rage. He and Penn are the only compelling reasons to see a film that is oddly engrossing...
LEAST CONGENIAL COUPLES: Sylvester Stallone and Dolly Parton in Rhinestone; Robert De Niro and Meryl Streep in Falling in Love; Producer Robert Evans and Director Francis Coppola on The Cotton Club...
...York City has been host to 42 films, among them Garbo Talks and Falling in Love with Meryl Streep and Robert De Niro. The next two busiest states are Texas and Florida. Although Florida Governor Bob Graham's goal is to make the state the film center of the world within 20 years, Texas, where 30 feature film and television productions were shot last year, appears to have as good a chance of becoming the "third coast...