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...George Jackson, president of the Harvard Black Student Athletes Association, will also have reason to shine with pride; for the first blow stuck will symbolize the successful completion of an odyssey in boxing promotion that would make Don King blush with envy...
...some of those games that players ways love to be in. It was a game where a am could pad its statistics, and where dividuals could shine. It was quite simply a run away...
...shine isn't quite all there yet. The polish needs a little work. But the basic product is sound and sturdy...
...Thayers' long absent and somewhat alienated daughter (Barbara Andres) arrives with her current lover, a divorced dentist (Stan Lachow), and, more important, the dentist's 13-year-old son Billy (Mark Bendo). Billy is parked with the Thayers for a few weeks, and Norman takes a shine to the kid. He teaches him how to fish, and Billy, a bit of a smartass, brushes up Norman's archaic lingo with such modernisms as "suckface" for "to kiss." A brush with death further restores Norman's zest for life and schools Ethel in the sweet scary brevity...
...temporary insanity. One might perhaps wish that Apted had not used a diffusion filter quite as often as he did (it sometimes seems the English fog has crept into almost every room his characters occupy), and that he had allowed a little more light to shine on some of his scenes. Nevertheless, and despite the Christie family's objections to this invasion of their historical privacy, this is a very nice movie: quietly, slyly witty, confident enough of its virtues to take its sweet time in telling its story, and marked by two endearing performances...