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Word: presoaked (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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...made for TV. The subject of this Canadian melodrama is a religious cult like the Moonies, and Director R.L. Thomas' tone is about as judicious as Friz Freleng's. David (Nick Mancuso), depressed over a short-circuited affair, falls in with some "Heavenly Children" who presoak his brain with homilies and then scrub it clean of all hope, feeling, self. Although it has plenty of impact, Ticket is often too busy being outraged to bother with niceties of characterization and plot. (Just how does David become converted? At what point does he snap...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Rushes: Dec. 14, 1981 | 12/14/1981 | See Source »

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