Word: sarandon
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Richard Dreyfuss, who plays a fledgling inventor/author doubling as an elementary school security guard to make ends meet, comes up with some pretty witty lines. Susan Sarandon complements him, as the neurotic failure who flunks her state court reporting test seven consecutive times and is left by a high-school sweetheart to raise a son. And of course, there's the star of it all, Sarandon's neglected nine-year-old son (Will Wheaton), who brings the two unlikely lovers together...
...from the film's opening scenes, where Sarandon burns toast and Dreyfuss battles with his talking scale, The Buddy System leaves little to the audience's imagination. We know before Wheaton ever meets his ideal father that Dreyfuss will play Daddy Warbucks and take the kid under his wing, and that Sarandon will become his new playmate. The plot ostensibly thickens when Dreyfuss's old girlfriend--a mindless blonde who parrots '60s cliches--returns. But the audience has little doubt that everything will somehow work out when the three are seen happily planting tomatoes in the garden...
...clear problem with The Buddy System is its lack of focus. The film vascillates between being a corny romance and the pitiable story of a friendless child, and never clearly decides which plot has the most appeal. Moreover, side issues like Sarandon's silent struggle to free herself from her mother (Jean Stapleton) are either given peripheral treatment or never fully developed at all. By the time the characters move towards resolving their crises, the audience has difficulty piecing together the tangential fragments of the story...
...passed for a cheap thrill. Now the pressures of High Kink can cause such a strain, for example The Hunger, due out in April. In a decidedly against-type bit of casting, Catherine Deneuve, 39, plays a 3,000-year-old bisexual vampire involved in a threesome with Susan Sarandon, 36, and David Bowie, 36. With hot designs on toothsome Susan, Deneuve commits the classic faux pas of asking about a blood transfusion. "Not the greatest move on a first date," observes Sarandon. Indeed, but such is the foam that washes ashore in this bit of vampyorrhea that aggressively bills...
...discussion, sponsored by Radcliffe's Office for the Arts. Sarandon will discuss her career from a set of prepared statements, but will not answer questions from the audience or reporters...