Word: robinsons
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Stephen Robinson--master of William B. Castle Society, one of the five--said that the societies are "the mirror image of the houses at the College." He said, "They are groupings of students and teachers not so much for housing, but for academic purposes...
Written and directed by Phil Alden Robinson...
Director Phil Alden Robinson, whose previous credits include the screenplay for All Of Me, weaves the story of Carver in a relentlessly sentimental sweetness fest that made me long for the hard-bitten realism of Bambi, or at least Goldilocks and the Three Bears...
Still, I can't help but think that there had to be a lot more to the women's decision to run off with Wisecarver than just his innocence, and Robinson doesn't really flesh this out; at least not before I started dozing...
Phil Alden Robinson, the writer-director of In the Mood, does not seek even the modest parable. He is all amiability recounting the true tale of "Sonny" Wisecarver, the 1940s California teen who twice eloped with older women and became a media sensation. Patrick Dempsey, Talia Balsam and Beverly D'Angelo agreeably impart the message that adolescent sexual energy can cheerily compensate for lack of sexual sophistication. But one cannot help feeling that there is a wicked craziness in their odd couplings that escaped a directorial eye looking merely for goofiness...