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...movie has no plot at all but several sub-plots, none of which ever develop into anything. There is a love interest between Motorhead Sherwood, an actor who appears to suffer from some brain malfunction, and a vacuum cleaner that isn't really a vacuum cleaner but is actually some guy dressed up like a vacuum cleaner who never talks but merely inhales. There is another guy who wears a nun's habit and is supposed to represent a groupie who has taken an overdose of barbiturates and ascends to Heaven. There is Jeff the bass player who drinks...
...think perhaps it's time to read again the story of Robin Hood who, in the tradition of Sherwood Forest took from the rich and gave to the poor," McGovern mused...
...stereotypical words serve to define and exhaust the nature of the people involved. First comes the dutiful wife (Jessica Tandy) with her 50-year badge of marital honor. Then there is the earthy, pleasure-giving mistress (Colleen Dewhurst), the sympathetic lawyer friend (George Voskovec), a hostile daughter (Madeleine Sherwood) and a remorse-laden son (lames Ray). Finally, there is a flip nurse (Betty Field) and the trusted family physician (Neil Fitzgerald), who has been something like a brother to the dying man. As the characters talk, a mounting pile of reportage -without even a grain of redeeming insight-gradually buries...
After she was taken to the Sherwood Hotel in Hornell, thawed out and given a hot meal, she took off again about 4 p.m. Her plane narrowly missed the chimney of the last house on our street. She landed just at dark in Binghamton. N.Y.. a distance of about 110 miles from Hornell...
...script is predictable, the situations pure pasteboard. But Director John Trent has a subtle feeling for the nuances of small-town life, and scenes such as a going-away party for a Viet Nam-bound soldier are filled with a sense of quiet poetry that might have pleased Sherwood Anderson. In the cast are Tisa Farrow, Mia's preternaturally sensual younger sister, and (as Homer) a robust young actor named Don Scardino, who is the most genial and talented young leading man to appear since Beau Bridges...