Word: scripted
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Despite thoughtful dialogue, subtle humor and top-notch performances, Benedek's script is plagued by a weak plot and unimaginative characters. The last 45 minutes of Immediate Family drag...
...early passages, In Country's script perhaps pursues too many banal and inconsequential matters as it portrays teen life in a small town. Samantha has a boyfriend who does not match her in wit and spirit. She has a girlfriend contending with an unwelcome pregnancy. But the film starts to gather force and direction when a dance, organized to honor the local Viet vets, works out awkwardly. And when -- at Samantha's insistence -- Emmett and Mamaw join her on a pilgrimage to the Viet Nam Veterans Memorial in Washington, the movie achieves real power. Director Norman Jewison understates his final...
...actors, Douglas lands somewhere between Stallone (on the lower end of the `tough cop' scale) and Clint Eastwood (on the upper end). Douglas manages to create a surprisingly appealing character despite the poor script...
...squads followed a similar script in the second stanza, as the Engineers equalled their opening-period barrage of two shots on goal. Harvard added two more tallies for the final margin--one on a crisp passing play from Mills to Enge to D'Onofrio, the other on a nifty move past two defenders and subsequent blast into the upper corner by reserve midfielder Don "Day-Glo" Daigle to close out the scoring...
...script, by playwright David Rabe (Streamers, Hurlyburly), introduces some complexities into this schematic story. Eriksson owes his life to Meserve's military skills. The sergeant, who is not presented as a psychopath, and the other men are in a furor because a buddy has been killed in an ambush at a supposedly pacified village. Eriksson has an interesting speech in which he argues that the standard rationale for bad wartime behavior ("We might at any second be blown away") is exactly wrong. It is precisely because soldiers live inches from death that they should be "extra careful about what...