Word: prizzi
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...first half of the film is an energetic rehash of the Star Wars space battle. The second half is an elaborate Michael Jackson video, in which the star emerges from his rickety spaceship to do battle with the Evil Empress, played with magisterial malevolence by Oscar Winner Anjelica Huston (Prizzi's Honor). Jackson, who by now could double for his own Tussaud waxwork, is an improbable Han Solo, but he still dances like a jive Astaire and earned audible swoons from teenage girls at the premiere. The film's 3-D effects are familiar but engineered with flair: an asteroid...
...seems to be putting on an Academy Award performance, rather than taking you on a tour through the family album, are when she is with Nicholson. As Mark Forman, Nicholson gives a performance reminiscent of everything he has ever done. A little from Terms of Endearment, a little from Prizzi's Honor, even a bit from The Shining when Mark gets upset...
...Prizzi's Honor Tues...
...role as an aging woman returning to her roots in The Trip to Bountiful. William Hurt was named Best Actor for his portrayal of a homosexual prisoner in Kiss of the Spider Woman. The awards for Best Supporting players went to Anjelica Huston, who was a Mafia princess in Prizzi's Honor, and Don Ameche, 77, for portraying the rejuvenated geriatric in Cocoon...
...make movies that speak to the present, not concepts or carbon copies but reverberant stories and demanding images. Says Robert Benton, whose Kramer vs. Kramer was the top-grossing film of 1979: "The most interesting development of the past year was the success of the old-fashioned thriller: Witness, Prizzi's Honor, Jagged Edge. They didn't have a teenager among them. Maybe studios will begin to rethink their policies." Kaufman dares to predict "a return to movies about relationships. The mood has changed; the divorce rate is dropping. I see 40-year-old couples standing in movie lines again...