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...Indochine and Michelle Pfeiffer in Love Field all played strong, exemplary idealists. The actresses all received critical plaudits. But what is the sound of two hands clapping in a nearly empty theater, when other rooms in the multiplex are filled with crowds cheering for teenage turtles and the righteous Marines of A Few Good Men? The five Best Actress films have earned only $36 million total at the North American box office -- less than the cheapo comedy Encino Man. The one "hit" in the quintet, Howards End, has grossed less in its yearlong run than Batman Returns...
Davies, a vagrant, rather self-righteous old man, is taken in by a mentally impaired man, Aston, and his sly and hostile older brother, Mick. The men continually talk at one another but never connect because they are unable to understand themselves. Each has a dream which he cannot act upon. The characters' constant repetition of their stories and of each other's words in absurdly circular dialogue provides both the play's humor and its tragic core...
...policy while supporting the group's considerable public service potential. A willingness to compromise temporarily, and to see good as well as bad in the offending organization, could lay the foundations for dialogue with discriminatory groups about their policies. By contrast, the current all-or-nothing spirit of self-righteous boycotters makes institutions like the Boy Scouts and the army feel defensive and hostile towards advocates of inclusion...
...Enter screenwriter Todd Graff (Used People). He takes the original's perplexing flashback structure, flattens it out and fattens it up, mostly by creating a new character, a waitress (Nancy Travis) who falls in love with Jeff. Graff changes the theme: now knowledge is just a cue for righteous revenge. The Dutch movie had no gun; in a Hollywood thriller there must be a gun, and it will go off. The original's ending was misanthropic, claustrophobic -- a fellow in a tight spot with no way out but death. Graff provides a rousingly standard climax, putting the heroine at mortal...
...long in any one phase, you stop evolving. It's like people who are in their thirties and still hang around their old high school; it just becomes a little pathetic. So that put me in a certain amount of conflict with people who were a little more righteous about the Asian-American movement. I think partly it's a result of having been brought up as a fundamentalist and rejecting that. I now have an inherent problem with fundamentalism on any level...