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Jerome Benton, Prince's comic servant in Purple Rain, and newcomer Scott-Thomas deliver likeable performances. Berkoff is suitably hateful and hateable as the possessive billionaire father...
Barco, a 40-year public servant whose posts have ranged from mayor of Bogota to Ambassador to Washington, must now confront the Betancur legacy. High on the new President's agenda: the continuing terrorist attacks, growing pressure from the U.S. to clamp down on illicit drug traffic, and a 13.4% unemployment rate. Barco will have to move quickly to contain the proliferating drug business. He has already pledged support for programs to eradicate the coca plant, which provides the raw material for cocaine, and he has indicated to Washington that he will cooperate with efforts to extradite Colombians accused...
...Sheedy must have hit it off when they were filming The Breakfast Club or St. Elmo's Fire because here she is again, a couple of hundred miles south of the locations in which we saw her last, but present nonetheless. As Annie, Eddie's straight-laced civil-servant sister, Sheedy doesn't have a whole lot to work with in terms of character development. In the role of a co-detective trying to help Billy solve the mystery of his father's death, she is about as believable as one of Charlie's Angels. What kind of investigator discusses...
...Harvard has evidenced errors in judgement through the years (most recent examples include the University's manifested attitude toward the homeless, its obtuse social responsibility policy toward South Africa and the misdirected and irresponsible recognition given by the Kennedy School to Edwin Meese as a so-called "distinguished public servant") yet as the oldest liberal learning institution in this nation, Harvard has also exemplified great traditions in scholarship, inquiry, creativity and leadership...
...Brenneman delivers perhaps the finest performance as the narrator Nelly Dean, another servant at Wuthering Heights. Her Rickie Lee Jones lip-synchs are convincing, almost soulful, and she anchors the loosely constructed production with a quiet but firm presence...