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Despite the title, the movie does not focus entirely on the wedding. The most charming subplot centers around Ally Sheedy (another brat-packer), Betsy's little sister Connie. She is a delighually insecure police officer who "likes arresting people." Most men find it hard to snuggle up with a woman with a gun on her shoulder. When Hopper is asked by his wife how they can afford a second wedding for Connie, he responds, "It's okay--no one likes...
...subplot -- the successful effort to save the cemetery -- turns out to be more interesting than the central question of whether Harry and Catherine can find true love. They are like David and Maddie of Moonlighting -- coming together, going apart, ever off balance -- but without the humor or irony. Every single movement of the two characters is chronicled, like a time-motion study. When Catherine is done preparing a meal and cleaning it up, a recurring activity, the reader is left exhausted and with dishpan hands...
...strongest book. It chronicles the decline of Marcus Vallar, a charismatic man who may have mysterious healing powers. But the central figure is a tiresome young don, Alfred Ludens, who is preoccupied with genius -- he is writing a book about Leonardo -- and obsessed by Vallar. The subplot involves a pigheaded painter and his attempts to maintain a particularly grotesque menage a trois. There is some wit here; the book could in fact be viewed as a send-up of Doris Lessing's more apocalyptic fictional efforts. But in Murdoch's best work, the characters have more zip than these...
...nuclear diplomacy, START II, after the current talks produce a treaty later this year. However, hawks in the Pentagon and elsewhere in the Government are questioning whether there should even be a START II. All this is reminiscent of the bureaucratic factionalism that so often made for an unedifying subplot of arms control in the past...
...David Kravitz) who wants Susanna and doesn't return the Countess' love as he should. Basically, Susanna wants Figaro, the Count wants Susanna and the Countess wants the Count. Throw in a case of a lovesick teenager (Cherubino), recruited to aid in the scheme by the women, and a subplot where the orphaned Figaro learns the identities of his real parents, and you get some really dangerous liaisons...