Word: plot
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Here, the plot thickens: Barr begins to see that the pieces just don't fit. In a very fishy sense, Diana's dream turns out to be a textbook case. Barr finds he has personal contacts with all of the pertinent witnesses at the trial. And what's more the sole beneficiary to Heather's husband's estate--the one obstacle to her inheriting it herself--has just died...
...kind of improbable melodrama that made home-front life during the war so entertaining. Indeed, Linda borrows some of her best espionage tricks from the Hollywood thrillers to which she's addicted. At a certain point, writer- director David Seltzer, finding himself with too many obligations to an overcomplicated plot, forgets to keep up Linda's perky, amusing spirits. But he's a basically lively and knowing guy, and, on balance, Shining Through is a cheerfully suspenseful entertainment...
...PROOF (Feb. 9-10, 9 p.m. EST). To be sure, this later novel -- about a prominent defense attorney who uncovers a web of shady dealings and family secrets after his wife's suicide -- is a more complex, less easily digested work. Still, it might have clicked if the convoluted plot had not sprawled over four padded hours. Or if the made-for-TV cast had been better. Hector Elizondo plays the defense attorney in one monotonous key: prissy naivete. Victoria Principal, Stefanie Powers and Mel Harris, randomly chosen from a bin marked EX-PRIME-TIME STARS LOOKING FOR WORK, leave...
...distance from his own life increases as the story of Summerchild and Serafin (and Jessel) reaches its crescendo, and the characters and plot of his own story become more and more alien...
...most inane of this sequence of chases, Vacendak and Furlong, hunter and hunted, at last come face to face. Does Furlong seize the opportunity to kill his nemesis? Does Vacendak put an end to the chase and take the "freejack" captive? No, of course not. Plot developments such as these would have actually made sense. Instead, in an act of reciprocal mercy, Vacendak decides to let the freejack go for now and, giving Furlong a five minute headstart, begins counting "One Mississippi, Two Mississippi...