Word: sightseer
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...moral hypocrisy of the mid-Victorian era. Unfortunately, he has not found a way to translate his Dickensian themes to film. Though his movie contains vivid re-creations (shot in Ireland) of London's stately mansions and grisly slums, Crichton photographs them as if he were a sightseer. His usual acerbic point of view - so apparent in the future-shock environments of his other movies - evaporates completely. What remains is a story that in itself cannot sustain a full-length film...
...Goats and Cows. Boudreau does his own summer traveling in a Dodge Sightseer with his wife Kathleen and their three children-Jonathan, 6; Robert Josquin, 3; Tanya, 2. The rest of the year, home is a 20-acre farm outside Pittsburgh where he raises goats and cows, grows corn and tomatoes and listens to tapes of new composers who may be worth a commission...