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...especially Slater (Rory Cochrane), the resident drug fiend, who is always slouching around in a cute, grungy way making funny little comments. Some aren't appealing, like O'Bannion (Ben Affleck), the typical sexist jock bully. There are the two nerdy guys, Mike (Adam Gold-berg) and Tony (Anthony Rapp), who spend the movie philosophizing and screwing up courage to engage in appropriate senior activities, and the nice, shy girl, Sabrina (Christin Hinojosa). For the purposes of the movie they're all like the people you went to high school with, even if they really aren...
...generally don't like it because it's bad enough in here normally--particularly at dinner. The constant bass is disturbing," said Whitney A. Rapp...
...strong wind could blow them into the lower class. The issues being debated, mostly over meals, are whether the father (Ed Harris) should take a job out of town, whether the elder son (William O'Leary) should go to college or start adult life, and whether the younger (Anthony Rapp), a child actor, should enter an elite high school or embark on a national tour. (In one of Playwright Furth's slyer jokes, the unnamed play the boy is invited to join is recognizably A Streetcar Named Desire.) The father, who lacks a high school diploma, harangues his family about...
Movie Star Harris (The Right Stuff, Places in the Heart) finds simmering violence and sudden affection in this man. O'Leary foretokens a sad future when he naively envisions an assembly line as an exhibition hall for his competitive drive and skill. As the youth, Rapp makes the stage glow in what could have been a formulaic speech about his having yearned to be an actor even before he knew that the profession existed. The finest performance is Ivey's as the play's forceful center, the clangy-voiced, flighty, phrase- turning mother with a heart of gold...
...senior Thomas M. Burke, co-founder of RAPP, has so far endorsed peaceful policies such as posting anti-pyramid propaganda...