Word: oversmart
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...budget from family and friends (with the aid of an Oxford alumnus. Director John Schlesinger, who helped get production equipment at a discount), has achieved a perfectly glittering surprise on its first try. Indeed the film is flawed at its center by an unattractive protagonist named Edward, an oversmart, oversmug womanizer and all-around user of people, who is supposed to summarize all that is wrong with traditional Oxford attitudes. In this role Robert Woolley does the nasty bits well, but mostly leaves out those moments of charm and vulnerability that might have evoked real sympathy...
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