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...another short film that seems very long. There are nice little scenes and nice minor characters, but these nice little things keep coming along without moving the movie very far. The film could have easily been tightened up around the characters of Cassie and Riley without much loss of subplot appeal...

Author: By Thomas M. Doyle, | Title: Cinema Veritas | 11/14/1986 | See Source »

Instead of the standard horror movie romance subplot, Cameron introduces an alternative human emotion--motherhood. In their search for the alien hordes, the team discovers a little girl named Newt, played by the show-stealing Carrie Tern. At first, she is frightened to death, but gradually allows Ripley to get close to her. During the course of the movie, Ripley and Newt work together to protect each other from the monsters, developing a not-too-sentimental mother-daughter relationship...

Author: By Maia E. Harris, | Title: A Great Scare | 7/25/1986 | See Source »

...words in the book are Hemingway's. He must also defend his cuts and rearrangements against purists and scholars. Hemingway left some helpful comments in the margins, but more often Jenks was on his own when he had to boil down dialogue, eliminate repetitions and remove characters and a subplot...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The Old Man and the Sea Change the Garden of Eden | 5/26/1986 | See Source »

...directorial style does not help. And as a writer he has not provided for himself as generously as he has for others. His romance with a teacher played by Lise Hilboldt, an actress whose plainness of manner amounts to a kind of self-cancellation, is dully conventional. And a subplot that involves them in an endlessly unfunny attempt to soothe the troubled spirit of Burgess's mad old mom is irrelevant and near to tasteless. She is played by Lillian Gish, and the movies' oldest pro clearly understands that she is trapped in Sweet Liberty's dreariest neighborhood. She does...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The Road of Good Intentions Sweet Liberty | 5/19/1986 | See Source »

Unseen but much discussed is the suburban couple's daughter, a college freshman who has stopped attending class to provide round-the-clock sexual service to two men. The girl's relatives fatuously assure one another that her self-abasing behavior is a phase she will outgrow. In another subplot, the girl's parents consider divorce, but the audience cannot see the agony they profess to feel. The entire proceedings, staged by Mike Nichols, are life as viewed through Saran Wrap. Although Broadway Veteran Nichols has mislaid his gift for telling detail, he has evoked maximum slickness and verve...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theater: Saran-Wrapped Social Security | 4/28/1986 | See Source »

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