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...best, Nuts is a picture that has much to say about the corrupting power of possessive love. But as adapted for Streisand by Tom Topor and veteran Screenwriters Darryl Ponicsan and Alvin Sargent, it too often surrenders to the banalities of its genre. For Nuts exemplifies one kind of Hollywood high-mindedness: the "I'm O.K. Because Society Says I'm Not O.K." movie. The protagonist is not insane, merely misunderstood by those who impose rules she refuses to play by. Every time an authority figure declares she is incompetent, her sanity is supposed to be affirmed. This...
Directed by Harold Becker Screenplay by Darryl Ponicsan and Robert Mark Kamen
...attitude is explored in Ponicsan's novel An Unmarried Man. Ben Pleasants, a woodcarver who has a smidgen of fame due to his profile in People magazine, jilts his wife because he wants to really fall in love at least once before he dies. So he moves out on spouse and daughter, 8, and, sure enough, Lupe, the woman he's been waiting for, conveniently moves into the apartment over his new abode. This infuriates his ex-wife, who then demands almost everything they've owned, down to his last unworked hunk of wood, which he fashions into a copy...
Dramas about male bonding have glutted the market recently No one connected with this adaptation of Darryl Ponicsan's novel can be accused of enormous originality. But there is an un pretentious realism in Towne's script, and Director Ash by handles his camera with a simplicity reminiscent of the way American directors treated lower-depths material in the '30s. Quaid plays dumb with canny appeal. Young, as a black for whom a noncom's career is a big step up, makes you feel his sense of risk when he stops going by the book...
CINDERELLA LIBERTY Directed by MARK RYDELL Screenplay by DARRYL PONICSAN...
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