Word: smith
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Dennis Hopper: Bruce Smith's shoe, man, a new overcoat and a life-time supply of "Halitosis" breath freshener...
After last year's disappointing 7-19 (4-10 Ivies) record, Harvard women's basketball coach Kathy Delaney Smith made a Namath-like guarantee that the Crimson, so used to success, would never be that bad again. After all, Delaney Smith is the winningest men's or women's basketball coach in Harvard history, and last year's record was the worst in 10 years...
...chilling winds of New-foundland may howl outside the St. Vincent orphanage, the setting of director John N. Smith's compelling new film "The Boys of St. Vincent," but the territory inside the cloistered stone walls provides no safe haven either. The black-clad priests of St. Vincent slip like sinister, dark shadows through the looming corridors, creating a world of terror for the young boys entrusted to their churchly protection. The orphanage is a realm of the wicked, built not only upon layers of deceitful whispers and abuse of religious power, but also upon the sadistic sexual molestation...
...film begins with this radically destabilizing image of the private bourgeois existence within which Lavin has withdrawn. Since the days in the orphanage, Lavin has become an architect, now married with a wife and two young boys. Smith aims to explore the ambiguities of this man, who at one point in his life inflicted such pain on those around him. With the sudden return of his past actions. Lavin still inflicts pain on those around him, but in a radically different way. Now the camera focuses on the confusion, mistrust and terror in the eyes of his wife. She must...
...Just as Smith so acutely mapped the emotions of the young orphans in their faces, so too is he able to convey the interior psychological experience of Lavin's wife. The therapy sessions of Lavin--his substitute for the confession he never made during his reign of terror over St. Vincent--also stand as a complex tool in probing the introspective experiences of each character involve, as well as dissecting the soul and source of brutality...