Word: spacek
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...movie's promoters advertise the story as a romantic, fish-out-of-the-water comedy. In 1962, at the height of the Cuban Missile Crisis, an eccentric scientist Calvin Webber (Christopher Walken) and his expectant wife (Sissy Spacek) decide to enter their fallout shelter for just a week or two. But an airplane crashes into their house above, they mistake its rumbles for a bomb, and they end up staying in the underground lair for 35 years. In 1997, Calvin and his wife decide they need to refuel on supplies and send Adam, their born-in-captivity son (Brendan Fraser...
...scientific logic is silly and annoying, but since the movie's premise is already ridiculous--who cares? The first part of the movie is carried by Spacek and Walken. With his pasty face and taped-up glasses, Walken skillfully combines the roles of the paranoid scientist and conservative father. His brief foray into the world of hookers and porn shops is a scream. Spacek is convincing as a perky housewife with secret drunken tendencies and a potential for a nervous breakdown. When they rejoice, they do the twist. Fortunately for the movie, they know when to perk up their Ozzie...
Calvin's underground house is a wonder itself, with a huge fishpond, fake outdoors patio and early 60s kitsch. Plus, it boasts a stockroom so big that the mother can still push around a shopping cart. Buildings seem to be catchy way to describe the changing times. Spacek bakes pot roasts in a peaceful, tidy home. Above, Mom's Malt Shop sprouts up in place of the Webbers' old house and gradually devolves into a filthy hangout for druggies...
AFFLICTION STARRING: Nick Nolte, Sissy Spacek, James Coburn, Willem Dafoe OPENS: New York City, Los Angeles Dec. 30 WIDE...
Wade Whitehouse (Nolte) is a part-time cop and a full-time burnout. His wife has left him; his daughter squirms as he tries charming her; his sadistic father (James Coburn) poisons Wade's prospects. His educated brother (Willem Dafoe) is too far away. His girlfriend (Sissy Spacek) can't soothe his dark side. His best pal may have killed a rich man for hire. And Wade has this awful toothache...