Word: sisterly
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...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...
...Snoopy (Rob McManus) who sparkles as the feline-hating World War I flying ace. Lucy Van Pelt (Ann Henry) is the obnoxious big-sister and homespun-psychiatrist that we've come to expect. Blanket-armed Linus (Ron Duvernay), Lucy's brother, is an intellectual version of the picked-on innocent. And Schroeder (Biggs) and his piano, are sweetly in line with the musical prodigy Schultz penned. The only unrecognizable old-timer is Peppermint Patty (Jennifer Joss). In the strip she is a loveably irritating tomboy. Joss turns her into a shallow, bubbly valley-girl...
There are the makings of a play in the resentment between the housewife, who nurses the mother, and her sister, whose answer to everything is writing a check. But Bergman settles for stale attempts at satire about city dwellers vs. suburbanites, trendy vs. square relations, rich vs. poor ones. The actors struggle to give the play life, but there is only one moment of insight. As Thomas' ever irreverent husband, Silver says, "I'm flip, which is another way of being shy." Perhaps that is Bergman's problem, and it is surely the problem of a weary genre: plenty...
...refused to let her learn Russian, quickly picked up both Russian and Georgian, but she still had trouble adapting. She defiantly wore a large cross, to the annoyance of school officials charged with teaching the government's doctrine of atheism. She got little help from her half brother and sister. Said she: "We didn't know what to say to each other...
...origins, his wife and young son have gone 12,000 miles away to Australia. In 1981, seven years after Truda surfaced, he receives a phone call. The speaker is a woman named Margaret, who informs him that his mother is dead. She is, it turns out, Leitch's elusive sister. The siblings meet, joyously ransack memories and make the most astonishing discovery of all: there is yet a younger sister, Linda Elizabeth. She has been adopted, but she is untraceable. It is for her that Family Secrets is written, in the hope that she too will answer the call...