Word: sitcomming
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Beck also plays the lead role in a Chicago comedy, "E/R", which inspired the television sitcom with Eliot Gould of the same name...
Rick and Lonnie are misunderstood teen-agers whose parents have forbidden them to see each other. The predicament may sound familiar, but Rick and Lonnie are hardly stock figures from a TV sitcom or sentimental drama in which love conquers all. In an upcoming ABC movie called Surviving, the youths feel increasingly beleaguered and estranged from the world. Depressed and hopeless, they take a drastic step. One night they sneak into her parents' garage, huddle together on the front seat of the family car and start the engine. The next morning they are dead...
...elaborate: they live in neighboring apartments, for example, that are connected by a hidden door in the bookcase. MacGruder & Loud goes through the cop-show motions, but the off-duty mush is clearly where its heart is set. You can't keep a good genre down. Reports of the sitcom's death, it turns out, were premature; all the genre needed was a healthy dose of adult writing, as proved by The Cosby Show, the new season's biggest hit. Enter Sara, a very adult sitcom about a single lawyer (Geena Davis) trying to make...
...phone with her boyfriend and threatening to "devote my entire life to crisis counseling for the holiday-impaired. My mother can be the poster child." And young Jeremy (Christopher Fields), just back from the war, slouches about like a lost soul. On closer inspection, though, this engaging sitcom quartet reveals affinities to more tortured theatrical families: O'Neill's Tyrones, Miller's Lomans, the ravaging couples in Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? Jeremy really has lost his soul, lost it for good and all, in the jungles of Viet...
COMFORT AND JOY. Sitcom becomes surrealism in this tale of a Scottish disk jockey's miserable Merry Christmas. The best film yet from cockeyed visionary Bill Forsyth...