Word: palmas
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...freaky little low-budget comedy about college kids, the draft and politics that enjoyed some success a season or so ago. Much of it shot wide of the mark, but a few scenes (notably a satire on assassination investigators) hit close enough for Writer-Director Brian De Palma and Producer Charles Hirsch to be called "promising," and to get them a major distributor's financing for a sequel. Hi, Mom/!is the uneven result...
...creation of a guerrilla-theater confrontation between a troupe of angry black actors and a group of gullible suburban honkies who just have to see what being black is like. The episode is tense, electric, terrifying, and suggests that next time around, Moviemakers De Palma and Hirsch might forsake satire for drama. "Promising" is still the word for them...