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Return of the Secaucus Seven. Seven veterans of the antiwar movement meet, on the cusp of maturity, ten years after. John Sayles wrote the year's wittiest screenplay, found humor and humanity in his subject...
...seventh of twelve children born to a working-class family in gritty Bayonne, N.J. An orphan at 17, he began as a $48-a-week laborer. Now, he is the principal stockholder of the $50 million-a-year Schiavone Construction Co. in Secaucus, a "realization of the American dream," he says proudly. But Ronald Reagan's choice of Raymond James Donovan, 50, to be Secretary of Labor probably owes less to his business acumen than to his accomplishments as a political fund raiser. By Donovan's own account, he raised more than $600,000 for Reagan...
...Secaucus Seven seem purged of that terrible, adolescent rage that burst through the boundaries of politics and into all facets of '60s culture--many of them are just marking time. But how grandly they have aged! Gone are the sharp edges, the arrogance, the aura of indestructibility, replaced by a quiet maturity, a fundamental honesty, and, in most of them, a sad but touching self-awareness...
JOHN SAYLES made The Return of the Secaucus Seven for his resume. He filmed it for $60,000 in 25 days with an inexperienced cast and never intended to release it commercially. Early in the film his cinematic technique is uncertain; Sayles edits and cross-cuts nervously, and yet his characters--'60s radicals preparing for a reunion in the White Mountains of New Hampshire--are a little nervous about seeing each other again, so it seems a charming extension of the characters' mood. Well, not really. But watching this extraordinarily modest, understated little home movie you want to give...
...Secaucus Seven, arrested in Secaucus, New Jersey on the way to a Washington demo with an ounce of dope and a rifle in the back of their rented station wagon, have gone on to live decent, modest lives. No longer violent in their opposition to "the system," they have, with few exceptions, quietly abstained from becoming a part of it. One guy spends all his time fixing cars; others are teachers, drug counselors, songwriters. One girl writes speeches for a liberal senator whose politics smack of opportunism. She worries about...