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Twenty-one states lined up Democratic primaries and caucuses on this Tuesday four years ago, but organizers were shocked by a the result: a runaway victory by New England Democrat Michael S. Dukakis and a strong showing by the liberal Rev. Jesse Jackson...
...fact, the film's two best passages belong to them. When Erica takes as her first lover the squarest boy in school (that'll show Mom), their struggle with the logistics of lovemaking is a fresh, sweetly hilarious exploration of familiar territory. And the girls' search for their runaway dad -- he turns out to be in produce, in Albany, and hopelessly inarticulate -- is both adorable and unsentimental. At a moment when many movies aspire to the former quality, very few attain the latter. This one does...
More is what he gets, thanks to the sudden disappearance of Matty Hylan, a flamboyant millionaire who owns a conglomeration of companies, including the one that employs Browne. The runaway entrepreneur leaves behind a crumbling financial empire and the commitment he had made to skipper a new Altan Marine model in an around-the-world sailing race called the Eglantine Solo. Hylan's beleaguered lieutenants scramble for a replacement and find him in one of their own employees, Owen Browne...
...update of the old Lana Turner weepie Portrait in Black, the writer-director of Tie Me Up! Tie Me Down! tosses his usual salad of mad love, acrobatic sex and cross-dressing, and garnishes it with a chorus line in a women's prison. High Heels careers like a runaway circus train over the rickety trestle of melodrama. Between giggles at the absurdity of it all, you're welcome to shudder...
Most disarming self-critique by the author of a runaway best seller: "Margaret Mitchell is a better writer. But she's dead...