Word: sacking
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...tits-and-zits teen pix, which treat adolescence as one endless gonadal giggle, his movies (Sixteen Candles, The Breakfast Club) are pretty acutely attuned to the exposed nerve ends of ordinary kids. Nice kids like Andie, a middle-class high school senior who plays nurse to her sad-sack dad (Harry Dean Stanton), puts up with the suffocating devotion of a funny dork named Duckie (Jon Cryer) and moons over Blane, a wealthy classmate (Andrew McCarthy) who maybe loves her back...
...rose; Father gives her the withering news that she can go to high school for only one year of secretarial courses. The 13- year-old's response introduces the principal motif of the book, if not the dominant theme of her life: "Here I stand, hobbled in a sack of doom, determined to tear out of it, knowing that I will...
...every special effect in the book to turn your youth into another Pop Pipe Dream. Swinging from chandeliers? You look more like the debating team type to me, but I guess that's not enough for our friend Spielberg. But there's no mystery in YOUNG SHERLOCK HOLMES (Sack Charles) because we've seen it all before. Here we have Goonies with a British accent: into every life, a lot of magic must shine. But there's none of the poignancy of Spielberg's earlier E.T. or Close Encounters. I don't mind the bright lights and special effects...
...ignore that. But speaking of tired concepts, how about SANTA CLAUS: THE MOVIE (Sack Copley)? Dudley Moore plays the Elf who wanted to sell out Santa, and John Lithgow is the evil Toy Manufacturer who wants to get the goods before they hit the sleigh route. Moore and Lithgow put in some agile performances, but the lines just aren't there--not even Moore and Lithgow can improv their way through this debacle...
After it was dropped by Sack, Hail Mary was picked up by the Orson Welles Cinema in Cambridge. Irrespective of the quality of this particular movie, the Orson Welles deserves congratulations for showing the film in the face of bomb threats and continued picketing. Likewise, Cambridge City Manager Robert Healy and Police Chief Anthony Paolillo deserve censure for suggesting that the cinema bow to the protesters threats and not show the movie...