Word: sisters
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...movie at first seems bland, a simple, boring tale: Leo Fang (Peter Wang) decides to return to China with his family to visit his sister whom he has not seen since the Revolution. Affluent and Americanized, Fang retains little of his heritage other than the language and memories. Meanwhile, Mrs. Chao (Shen Guanglan), Fang's sister, awaits his visit in a land full of history and change...
...this world. And I do feel like a celebrity. I'd do it again, yes, ma'am. In a heartbeat." Today she has played a townswoman meeting a bus. Just now she is watching another scene being shot and reshot: Sissy Spacek, as the youngest MaGrath sister, Babe, looking on forlornly as her 15- year-old black lover Willie Jay and his dog Dog, each wearing sunglasses as disguise, leave town on the same bus. (Babe, who is impulsive, has shot her nasty husband Zackery, leaving him perforated but not terminated, and he has threatened to do bad things...
...plot resembles the house, an outrageous, turreted wonder. Lenny MaGrath (Keaton) is the oldest sister, unmarried, moody, leery of men because of a "shrunken ovary." Meg (Lange), the flamboyant middle sister, is a minor- league cabaret singer whose recent employment has been in a dog-food company. Babe, the youngest, has that little problem with the husband she shot wisely but not well. Meg tells cheerful lies to Old Grandaddy and worries later that when he finds out the truth, he will lapse into a coma. Babe and Lenny laugh so hard at this that they can hardly spit...
...achieves freedom as she finds her masturbatory adventures exemplify. In case this doesn't seem enough like a Greek tragedy, the erstwhile homosexual son Edward (now played by Zelman) who has been dumped by his lover begins to discover that he wants to be a woman. After telling his sister of his new-found desire and enviously touching her breasts in a surprisingly tender and unsexual scene, Edward proclaims, "I want to be a lesbian...
Though Rooney doesn't end up in a funny farm like Clouseau's boss did, he does end up covered with dirt, bitten by Ferris's dog, and beaten up by his younger sister. Jones, who spends much of his time leering with pathological hatred of Ferris, gives a fine performance as the hapless dean. Of the other members of the cast, Alan Ruck is superlative in his supporting role, and Jennifer Grey is also good as Ferris's bratty and jealous younger sister...