Word: slappingly
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...perils of womanhood that Daniel must now face are humorous if not entirely original; though we expect and are provided with the typical griping about high heels, the treatment he doles out to a would-be mugger is one of the film's better moments. Williams' slap-stick style of switching identities, while more strained, is also funny, and even the over-worked puns (e.g. "I'm my own man now") have their charm...
...This slap-stick atmosphere, however, proves incompatible when the film chooses to shift gears, focusing on the serious problems of divorce. While Sally Field is largely convincing as a somewhat frustrated, struggling career woman, the "real-life" interactions between Daniel and Miranda seem stiff and unrealistic. And no tangible rapport is established between Daniel and his beloved children--they may profess to love him, but all seem equally fond of thehandsome, stereotypical yuppie Stu, a purposelyone-dimensional character. The relationshipbetween Daniel/Mrs. Doubtfire and Stu seems overlystrained given that Daniel's main motivation forthe charade is to see his kids...
...friend of mine and I recently had a disagreement about the way a man hits a woman. You can't punch her, he said (that gesture being reserved for man-to-man combat), nor can you slap her (that's effeminate). Instead, you swat her with the back of your hand. Interesting, I said. It's like hitting a dog with a bit of rolled-up newspaper. I began to get excited, thinking that maybe I had found a thesis topic. When women slap one another, I said delightedly, they are still retaining face-to-face communication. When...
...Mary, cow-tipping does not count: Well, I used to slap people on the head with leather gloves in the Union...
...story is secondary to slap-stick and surprise. Actually, anything goes in this movie. At one point, Ned crosses the street without paying attention and gets run over by a bus. The next scene shows him in his law office, looking exactly as he ought to look after having been steamrolled by a large vehicle...