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...rebellion against commercial exploitation of him and a nag. Though the picture, which cost $18 million including publicity, grossed $14.25 million in its first twelve days, it has not had nearly the drawing power the studio hoped it would, given the luster of its two stars, Robert Redford and Jane Fonda. United Artists' Being There, which stars Peter Sellers as a gardener who may become President, has opened well in Manhattan and Los Angeles theaters. When it goes into general release in February, it may join the list of hits...
While Being There takes on television and the older theme of illusion versus reality, Electric Horseman takes aim at the artificiality of American commercialism and the evils therein. Redford plays an ex-rodeo champ who's been roped into selling breakfast cereal as the advertising symbol of a huge conglomerate. The corporation's other symbol is Rising Star, a champion race-horse worth $12 million. When Redford, already unhappy with the life of a travelling pitchman, discovers that his employers have drugged Rising Star with steroids that not only slow him down but make him sterile as well, he takes...
Enter Fonda in designer boots and jeans, caught in the TV newswoman syndrome for the second time in a year. She goes after the horse thief hoping for an obnoxiously good story; she winds up with the story and a few cozy nights with Redford under the Utah stars to boot...
...Redford manages to tug the movie to a level that makes it worth seeing. In his first role since All the President's Men, he proves himself still capable of the twinkly eye and boyish, ultra-bright smile. The man can act. Except for several lapses in his Westernese dialect, he shows he can play more than Newman's or Hoffman's sidekick...
...look in her eyes that says "Ha ha, I'm making two million dollars a year so Tom and I can afford to be ostentatiously political." And while the camera tries to catch her pert derriere every time she bends over, Fonda looks older than ever before. Redford should have kept Rising Star and set Fonda free with the mustangs...