Word: skins
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Skin Deep...
There are two really good things about Blake Edwards' new film, Skin Deep. The first is that Skin Deep stars John Ritter, who gives a wonderful performance as Zach Hutton, a man who is addicted to women. The second is that Skin Deep contains not one, but two extended scenes featuring glow-in-the-dark condoms...
...Skin Deep, Ritter has been given a chance to show off both his talent for physical humor and his capacity for dramatic acting. There is a very funny scene in the film in which Ritter has just been given a rather excessive electroshock therapy treatment, and he proceeds to jolt about like a combination of Frankenstein's monster and a subway car on the green line of the MBTA. But it is the scenes in Skin Deep in which he is given the chance to act as the straight man that demonstrate how far Ritter has evolved from Jack Tripper...
Unfortunately, even when he's wearing glow-in-the-dark condoms, Ritter cannot save this film. Basically, the problem with Skin Deep is that all the characters in the film are one-dimensional. Also, the movie has no plot. Besides that, it's pretty good...
...same time, the idea of "difference" between "my group" and "your group," the distinction between any arbitrary division of students or schools or people with different skin or hair or eyes makes it impossible to resolve racism. It is, as Dovidio says, one of the most natural things in the world. And that is why it must be addressed...