Word: sisters
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...LYRICAL FILM El Norte is a sobering reminder of the flip side of the American Dream: the harsh and discouraging existence of the lower-class immigrant. Through the hopeful eyes of its central adult characters--a young Guatemalan Indian named Enrique and his sister Rosa--we see the ultimate "American" city, Los Angeles, in a new light: for a change the focus is not on aging starlets, alienated gigolos, or the jaded Rodeo Drive crowd. The hopes dashed in this tale are of a humbler sort, concerning only survival and modest prosperity...
Realizing that they, too, will eventually be hunted down, brother and sister decide to escape to "El Norte." Rosa literally kisses her colorful ancestral clothes goodbye (traveling through) Mexico dressed as Indians would only encourage mistreatment), while her brother reassures her, "In the North, we won't be treated this way, I'm sure...
...times. His mother never let him get too involved with other kids." A devout member of the Church of the Nazarene, Mrs. Hartpence enforced the church's injunctions against smoking, liquor, going to the movies and slow dancing. She was also oddly restless, moving Hart and his adopted sister Nancy from one cheap rented house to another, while Husband Carl drifted from job to job. For young Gary, worldly pleasure meant driving to the town airport on a double date and dancing on the empty runway to the car radio...
Just two weeks after the groundbreaking, 15-hour operation, Stormie was watching television, eating pizza and, as she tearfully indicated at a press conference earlier this month, longing to go home to her sister in Texas. Last week she was released from the hospital, but must remain in Pittsburgh indefinitely for checkups three times a week. Doctors are encouraged by the fact that Stormie's cholesterol level is declining; they hope that the wartlike bumps will soon begin to disappear. Scientists across the country meanwhile expect to learn from her singular experience. "It was FH patients like Stormie...
...despairing authority, and as her brother Morty, Michael Lombard combines unctuous self-regard and bone-deep insecurity. As the old, unrepentant radical Jacob, Paul Sparer provides a sense of guttering energy that is supposed to illuminate the hopes of the young. It does nothing of the kind. Brother and sister, husband and lover all perform in a declamatory style more appropriate to pageants than to plays. Moreover, Theodore Mann's direction takes the Bergers' zoo story and makes it sprawl inappropriately on the Circle in the Square's arena stage. Seen in the round, Odets is cruelly...