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...more sugar than the family size package of Cocoa Crispies, making John Hurt's Elephant Man look like the Wild Coyote by comparison. Climcal direction and Monday Night at the Movies screenwriting damn Mask into an abyss of sloppiness and unprofessionalism from which it is redeemed only by Eric Stoltz's tour-deforce in the title role and superb performances by Cher as Rocky's wackedout but tenderhearted Mom and Sam Elliott as her off-again, on-again biker boyfriend...
...Newcomer Stoltz bursts through the constraints of the film's perpetually lefthanded direction with a charm and bravado that Bogdanovich would be wise to emulate. Stoltz's Rocky meanders through his teenage life unblemished by bitterness and remorse, leaving a trail of warmth and good cheer in his wake. Whether he's conning his friends out of valuable baseball cards in order to complete a series of the 1955 Brooklyn Dodgers, dreaming about biking through Europe on a Harley after graduation, fantasizing about what it's like to have a girlfriend, he gallops his way into our hearts. Although...
Alas for his peace and quiet, he has a boyhood chum named Stoltz, a hustler determined to remobilize his old pal. He personally dices vegetables in order to provide Oblomov with an energizing diet...
...brings the slugabed books and periodicals to force him to take an interest in the world. Stoltz even finds a woman who falls in love with Oblomov-and why not? He's so much sweeter and gentler than his tirelessly activist friend; and, as seen in the permanently puzzled eyes of Oleg Tabakov, Oblomov's ennui has a strange integrity. In his way, Tabakov is as mysteriously compelling as Garbo...
...Stoltz, who could not be reached for comment last night, reportedly told the students he would respond to their demands in a letter today...