Word: plot
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Academy goes ultra-lite this year, reveling shamelessly in feel-gooders to the tune of As Good As It Gets, Good Will Hunting and The Full Monty. Titanic is its idea of tragic ballast: never mind such trifles as lame dialogue, clunky plot contrivances and characters that are closer to caricatures...
Even if it skews slightly away from the Harlequin-style plot slightly, there are still things about the characters that follow romantic convention. In fact, the plot skews just enough to make it cute enough to watch...
...spunky and independent. (See, no jokes about her weight in this review). The mother-in-law presents, sadly, a thoroughly ingrained type, the Endora that all dowagers become. But maybe we should throw social critique to the wind as we've lowered our standards to below action flick plot expectations by watching this movie in the first place. Nope. That's the beauty of being fly enough to play both sides of this issue...
...fight over this man who is decidedly handsome but not convincing enough to be worth fighting over. Apparently, women only shine if men are just not present, because Lange plays a widow and Schaech might as well be dead for all his presence does to move along the plot--though he is cute, so he can stay. But I digress...
...good there is to say about the movie, if one discounts the scene where Martha sits weeping on the kitchen floor looking, as a friend comments, "Like somebody stole her food." The novelty of having a movie whose main characters are women is marred, because the plot is channeled through some late-Bond era fantasy of a planet full of women who all want to serve and protect their men. Schaech's non-essential role in the movie is not a triumph for women everywhere--it's more of a slap in the face. Can women only shine in their...