Word: ontkean
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...epitomizes Self-Gratification, admitting "all she wants is to feel good." Phil (Ray Sharkey) plays Big Bucks, the New York photographer gone to California to bring in big money and live in big houses, with glossy pictures of himself hung all over his mansion. The Mystic is Willie (Michael Ontkean). Mazursky, whose last movie, An Unmarried Woman, successfully analyzed an urban marriage gone awry, tries to write a morality play of our own time. It is an ambitious project, but somehow an impossible task at this juncture. How in 1980 can a man make a movie about...
...guys (Michael Ontkean and Ray Sharkey) meet at a Greenwich Village revival showing of Jules and Jim early in the last decade. They are impressed by it, and before long their lives imitate cinematic art. Margot Kidder turns up in Washington Square Park to play the Jeanne Moreau role in their lives, and in due course they establish their own -not ménage à trois-trilateral commission. Thereupon their lives are laid out in tedious, unedifying detail...
John Herzfeld's screenplay concerns Drew Rothman (Michael Ontkean of Slap Shot), a Jewish delivery boy in Hoboken, N.J., and Rosemarie Lemon (Amy Irving of The Fury), a deaf teacher who wins the hero's heart. Drew wants to be a singer, Rosemarie wants to be a dancer, and they both want to be in love. There are obstacles along the path to a happy ending. Rosemarie's stern mom (Viveca Lindfors) feels that deaf people should stick to their own kind. Drew must act as keeper for both his gambling dad (Alex Rocco...
...dissolves, is slightly below the level of a TV perfume commercial. Whenever the action trails off, he brings on a Jimmy Webb theme song that sounds like a cross between You Light Up My Life and I Will Wait for You from The Umbrellas of Cherbourg. Stars Irving and Ontkean can be vibrant actors, but Markowitz straitjackets them into cutie-pie poses. If Irving comes off the better of the two, it is because of her character's affliction. Somehow silly dialogue does not seem quite so embarrassing when it is relayed in sign language...
Still and all, there are some good things about this movie. One of them is pretty Amy Irving who plays the deaf woman. She falls for Michael Ontkean, a laundry truck driver and strip joint singer. Before she knows it, she has dumped her deaf boyfriend Scott and started spending nights at the Hoboken, N.J. apartment her new boyfriend shares with his extended family of stereotypes--1) hopeless professional gambler father, 2) gang member brother, and 3) kindly, white-haired, tailor grandfather. This crew goes about their stock business as usual (Pa loses $2700 on Sleepwalker in the seventh, brother...