Word: scripted
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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PRASCAK transports his Orphee to Harvard Square and packs his script with local references--to eating establishments like Au Bon Pain and Steve's Ice Cream (which Death happens to manage). These touches are rarely intrusive and sometimes quite necessary...
Granted, the script of Charley is almost foolproof (thus its appeal, I suppose, for actors and directors). Because the play is a farce, its humor depends almost entirely on plot, rather than on more difficult elements like character development...
COMPLACENT, insulting lines like this abound in the script, making it difficult for us to appreciate Schroeder's solid direction of a highly competent cast. Rourke has genuine negative charisma in this film, in contrast to his vapid, one dimensional sex magnet persona in 9 1/2 Weeks. Here he's a sex symbol straight out of the Cuisinart, with his bloodstained tee shirts and battered face, and he remains likeable through the corniest moments. For all his apocalyptic late night poetry scribbling and implausible literary references, we can understand why Wanda and Tully fall in love with him, and even...
...perhaps the blame lies more in Hello Again's genre than in the acting or the script. Yuppies are just not very funny people, and this holds true even for the resurrected ones...
Though Long and Ivey cannot be blamed for the mediocrity of the script, both actresses tend to overcompensate for its weaknesses, making things worse Fearing that these lines would not be funny in themselves, Long and Ivey try to play up these jokes physically...