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Sally Roberts and Rita Funaro, who missed the first match, found their way to the University Health Services and once pronounced physically fit, went on to surgically remove their opponents in straight sets. Roberts took her number one match 6-1, 6-1, while Funaro breezed at number two, 6...
E.A. Whitehead's powerful script gives Roberts and Finney both the concentration of focus (no kids or neighbors barging in to tear them from each other's throats) and the depth of antagonism needed for tour de force performances. And Page has the good sense to refrain from superfluous footage...
Roberts manages the sort of homely but vulnerable manner that might conceivably make a brash young knight eager to wed and protect her, then live to regret the day. Finney, the best he's been since Tom Jones, projects all the lying charm of that role, but with more blushes...
The film, if not the war, ends at the outset of this decade. Finney has begun to chafe and drink under the pressures of holding on to his mistress and landing a higher-level job, and now looks forward to a day when "people will stay together because they really...
This conclusion, inconclusive and yet fast on the heels of the ultimate skirmish of psychological cruelty, leaves us with half a film, for one presumes that after throwing her hands up at suicide Mrs. Elliot will have to come to terms. The portrait of her, ending here, strikes one as...