Word: plot
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Fingers is not an auspicious directorial debut. At the narrative level hardly an incident in the movie is credible. Dip beneath the plot and you arrive at a psychological sewer. Among several gratuitous shock tactics, Toback treats the audience to an on-screen prostate examination and the spectacle of two women's heads being smashed together. The film's most persistent Freudian motif is a phallus fixation that borders on the pathological. Though Toback tries hard to emulate the expressionistic style of Director Martin Scorsese, Fingers never amounts to more than a flamboyantly neurotic drive-in movie...
...that it isn't fun. In its own bumbling way, American Hot Wax rekindles the cataclysmic spirit of the rock-'n'-roll revolution of the 1950s. Audiences who care little for rock should stay away, and so should anyone who expects movies to offer a credible plot. American Hot Wax is largely meant for a hard-core crowd-the moviegoers who have seen Saturday Night Fever three times and are desperate for a new rock-film...
...Feydeau plot is both intricate and indecently funny. The people are bourgeois and very much married; yet adultery is their chief goal and interest in life. In l'Amour, Moricet (Louis Jourdan), a doctor, lusts after Leontine (Patricia Elliott), wife of Duchotel (Bernard Fox). On frequent "hunting trips" Duchotel is cheating on Leontine with the wife of a friend...
Gore Vidal cannot wait. His latest novel is an apocalyptical extravaganza that craftily combines feminism, homosexuality, mysticism, science fiction, fiction science, the second law of thermodynamics, the first law of survival, high fashion and low animal cunning. The plot is diabolically clever. Theodora (Teddy) Ottinger, the world's leading female pilot and bisexual author of the bestselling Beyond Motherhood, stumbles into the service of Jim Kelly, a golden-haired Viet Nam vet who fancies himself Kalki, the Hindu god whose job it is to ring down the curtain on the material universe. Teddy needs the money; she is behind...
...directors, Rieffel and David Frutkoff, have chosen to stage the play conventionally, focusing on characterization and plot rather than experimenting with tricky special effects. They competently coached the actors, allowing for the demands of the clues--the need for a particular character to be in a particular place without looking suspicious...