Word: smile
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...fish got a real nice texture. Like dey just caught it, jus' pulled it floppin' off de hook. Everybody else try it and they smile and boivent la biere! Tres bon! Good and spicy...
Steely-eyed toilette finished, our man has transformed himself from a work-stained Charlie Manson into a square-jawed yuppie with a crinkly smile that could sell miles and miles of Kodak film. Whistling cheerfully, he cruises downstairs past a wall smeared with bloody handprints. Tension and soundtrack build as we wonder just what our cheerful quick-change artist is up to. Then, smiling wistfully, he pauses to pick up a child's toy. The camera follows him down, and there, sprawled messily across the living room, lies his butchered family...
...smile. And then, questioned about the purpose
...fireplace, or a couple of perfect bodies meeting in a night-lighted swimming pool. At times the film seems to believe that no thriller can be too rich or too thin. But there is dark substance lurking here, like the avidity and contempt hidden in the all-American smile of its honeyed, moneyed murderer. That would be Catharine (Theresa Russell), who marries and fatally poisons some of the richest men in the world. Maybe she loves them, almost as much as she loves their portfolios. They certainly love her, and they pay for that commitment with their lives and fortunes...
...that "nobody knows why anybody does anything." And Rafelson, in his snazziest stint since Five Easy Pieces (1970), locates meaning in each thrill and frill. He gives Supporting Players Nicol Williamson and James Hong juicy vignettes. He gives Winger a role that taps her smarts, humor and goofy-gorgeous smile. And he gives Russell the movie. In the past she has mainly graced the films of her husband Nicolas Roeg. Here she emerges as a golden girl with looks that kill. Separately, Russell and Winger make movie history: a detective and a villain, both women. Together, they fuse...