Word: rayfiel
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...updating the script, Barbara Benedek and David Rayfiel have too often substituted topical one-liners (some of them quite funny) for well-joined badinage. This has a distancing effect. Even worse, someone made a disastrous decision to lengthen the early sequence in which Sabrina finds herself in Paris. Wilder got through her maturation at montage speed; Pollack lingers over it for 20 inconsequential minutes, a bring-down from which the movie never quite recovers...
Intersection is -- earnestly, self-consciously -- a movie for grown-ups. It is made by veteran adults (director Mark Rydell; writers Marshall Brickman and David Rayfiel). It takes up a "mature" (if not exactly original) theme, that of a man torn between the responsibilities of marriage and the delights of a young mistress. It comes to an ending that is both tragic and neatly ironic. And it is a movie that does not for one minute draw you into its life, make you believe in its reality...
WRITERS: DAVID RABE, ROBERT TOWNE, DAVID RAYFIEL...
HAVANA Directed by Sydney Pollack; Screenplay by Judith Rascoe and David Rayfiel...