Word: roth
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...what you would call a happy movie-the film has an edge of loneliness and desperation only heightened by Allen's real life domestic crisis. When Jack (Sydney Pollack) and Sally (Judy Davis) announce their separation after 15 years of marriage to their best friends, Gabe (Allen) and Judy Roth (Mia Farrow), all four are forced to reexamine their love lives...
...after school, the milk and cookies, a rustling of Mother in full stiff skirts. Americans almost never cite books as aide-memoire or illustrations of family values, perhaps because the TV sitcoms of American childhoods tended toward the sunny, whereas the novelists (think of John O'Hara, Philip Roth, John Cheever), if read at all, made their money by prying open American private lives and showing dirty secrets...
Marriage, of course, plays a large part in this scheme. The marriage plans of Hypatia (played by the elegant yet hyperactive Stephanie Roth), daughter of the rich underwear manufacturer Tarleton (Jeremy Geidt), become the main battleground on which she and her family struggle to define what marriage, freedom and a woman's role should...
Especially notable are the performances of Derek Smith as Bentley, the neurotic upper-class twit, and Stephanie Roth as the energetic yet graceful Hypatia. The stage, designed as a summerhouse with a marble fountain, captures that Edwardian spirit of gracious and confining domestic life, complete with a back wall made of a metal grille. For the Tarleton family, domestic life is truly a gilded cage...
...great tradition," said Jessica Ann Roth'92. "We like it because it says something aboutDunster characteristics. We're mellow anddifferent...