Word: plot
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Despite the static setting (in one room in Maydee's house), the play moves fast, covering so much ground that its single location only gives the plot greater emotional intensity. The interaction between family members, although very particular to the four Black women, achieves a powerful universality...
...Garden of Scorpions" does drag towards the end, especially as the plot never gets any clearer...
Lest we think her frivolity indicates a sadly one-dimensional character, the plot convincingly rounds out her personality...
...plot, although original in its premise of the underground radio show as an outlet for teenage angst, is not supported by the rest of the movie. The writing, by the movie's director, Allan Moyle, is cliched at best. As the movie unfolds, the teenage heroes fight the system; Nora and Mark hit it off and take on the school administration. What was thought to be a pastoral place of learning and enrichment in the hills (which are actually outside of Los Angeles, as proven by the shot of the LA Aqueduct) turns out to be full of troubled kids...
...take the already belabored, wobbling plot even closer to its fall, the writer forces the radio show (which could have been an insightful vehicle for teenage problems) into a fight for free speech. By the end of the movie the Federal Communications Commission has been sent in to stop the show. As if painting the school's administrators as automatons enforcing social pressure on teenagers is not enough, the writer brings in the Feds to rein-force the "Sixteen Candles' meets 1984" theme of the film...