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...best-known movie performances, Susan Sarandon scored as Brooke Shields' momma in Pretty Baby, a saga about a New Orleans house of you know what. Momma, who is 30, has pretty good gams herself. In her latest movie, Something Short of Paradise, Sarandon plays a feminist writer who wants love and security but not necessarily the marriage commitment that her partner, David Steinberg, insists on. Says Sarandon: "It's a pretty modern love story, which means everyone is fairly confused." In any case, the best shots of her are thigh...
...Like Sarandon he has multiple roles. He loves, hates, cries and even sings, all convincingly. While much of this is attributable to Robert's acting skill, director Pierson's input is also significant. Dave would not have been such a realistic character if he had been brilliant or articulate instead of street-smart and sullen...
During the movie we see Dave grow up. He hates his father (Judd Hirsch), who is a good-for-nothing drunk, while his mother (Susan Sarandon) keeps the family going with her stealing and her fortune- telling--which amounts to the same thing. His sister (Brooke Shields) is a beauty, with a mind of her own that you never see but which Dave assures us it there. She is destined to be sold into marriage at age 12 to an obese little boy. Her betrothal exemplifies gypsy life for Dave--his mother was stolen as a child; now his sister...
...superb acting by Susan Sarandon and Eric Robert does more than just enhance the well-directed lead roles the two of them play--it makes the movie work. Last seen in pretty Baby with sidekick Shields, Sarandon is even better here; she has more to work with. She can be funny, serious, wealthy and wide-eyed, as well as downtrodden, while Shields, though visually pleasing...
...this melodrama is strongly stated, but the performers for the most part (Susan Sarandon as the mother of the king-to-be is an exception) fail to convince us that their Romany roots are more than makeup deep. The folk ceremonies are routinely lusty, the dark familial passions are what we have come to expect in movies about subcultural persistence...