Word: romanticized
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3. Find a new ethnic group. Half the stud heroes in action films have a surname beginning with Mc-, but there aren't many films about Irish Americans. Really Irish ones, with the guilt and the corned beef and the weekly Mass and the guilt. Edward Burns--writer, director and...
4. For Pete's sake, have fun! Paul Rudnick lives to be giddy . Court jester of the Plague Years, the gay playwright-essayist has brought his romantic comedy about aids (you'll have to take our word for it) pretty successfully to the screen. Jeffrey faces its antsy audience head...
This movie (written by Robert Mark Kamen, Mark Miller and Harvey Weitzman) is slicker and neater than director Alfonso Arau's widely beloved Like Water for Chocolate, but the calculated naivete of its fabulism can be just as irritating. Yet if you're willing to be wowed, there's also...
It's the year's cutest meet: she throws up on him, and it's love at first hurl. Victoria (Aitana Sanchez-Gijon) has reason to feel queasy: she's pregnant but unmarried and is taking a bumpy train ride home to break the news to her very traditional family...
Magic realism dictates, moreover, that they be archetypes: Grandpa (Anthony Quinn) is a lusty old windbag; Dad (Giancarlo Giannini) is an uneasy martinet; Mom (Angelica Aragon) is full of soft romantic sentiment. They also, of course, have a fierce, primitive, mystical relationship with the land that nurtures them. The stranger...