Word: possession
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Crimson frontrunners have shown themselves to be very consistent and potent scorers throughout the season, and besides their physical and mental qualities, they possess superior vision of the goal area...
...soon as Nolte arrives at school, a huge dose of parental gravity gets overlayed on the cellophane. Hiller and screenwriter W. R. McKinney (an alias if there ever were one) possess Social Consciousness. They want to make a statement about an Important Issue, like those movies about bedwetting and wifebeating that TV does so well. What else but misguided do-gooderism could be behind dialogue like this...
...plays a harmless loony accidentally recruited as an emergency substitute teacher. Mulligan is the only person ever shown as teaching, albeit in the unusual format of dressing up as Lincoln, Washington, and Custer. He is the only actor who invests his part with the gentleness that great teachers possess. But Mulligan's work is wasted. No actor can really shine in a role that is essentially a bad joke. Yes, you guessed it: "You have to be crazy to teach...
From the steamy promotional material to the film's none too subtle previews, Impulse would appear to possess all the necessary credentials to qualify as a low-budget fleshbath. Yet from its outset, the film works to counter that temptation. In fact, with the exception of one brief sex scene, ironically distinguished by its lack of nudity, sex is essentially absent from this film...
...novel seems to be building toward a contemporary inversion of the Oedipus myth, in which the father would possess the son's bride. That impression is heightened by the best and perhaps most autobiographical scenes, as the narrator recalls a childhood of willful rudeness and neglect by his father, accompanied by pitiable flirtation from his mother. Yet just when Arlen, working through the accumulation of small, freighted moments, reaches an apparent climax, the ruminative and wistful tone turns frantic. In the culmination of a night of frenzied incident, the father is shot and gravely wounded by a romantic rival...