Word: sweets
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...traumatic World War II episode. Sophie's Choice? No, Plenty. Lange stars as a trailblazing country singer of the '60s who has a truculent husband and a few brushes with disaster. A remake of Loretta Lynn and Coal Miner's Daughter? No, this is Patsy Cline and Sweet Dreams. Spacek plays a Southern working-class mother fighting high-level corruption. Wait a minute: that's Norma Rae, or maybe Silkwood. No, this year they're calling it Marie. Not to be confused with a Close comedy called Maxie, which opened the same...
...thought a lady. But within these contours one can spot distinctive felicities and failures. Three of the films sink under the weight of earnestness (Marie), whimsy (Maxie) or scuzz quotient (Jagged Edge). In the others, two fine actresses can be seen at their resourceful best, fleshing out a character (Sweet Dreams) or camouflaging the void within it (Plenty...
...evidence suggests she earned that voice. In her marriage to Charlie, she shows that she can stand by her man, stand up to him, then throw him out when he gets too rough. Curing the on-the-road blues with a little a cappella harmony on Roll in My Sweet Baby's Arms, Patsy finds therapy in music: a way both of transcending her troubles and of registering each semiquaver of pain...
...members of the Leary family tend to become disoriented anytime they stray too far from the familiar hearth. Regardless of how tempting the escape, something--guilt, injury, an Oedipal chord, the boys eating too much glop for breakfast--inevitably draws them back to the comfort and complacency of home, sweet home...
...Alfred Nash, a crusty old psychiatrist who examines Steve and diagnoses acute schizophrenia. Nash asks the father about mental illness elsewhere in the family, and Stanley opines that ex-Wife Nowell "is a bit mad." He explains, "Her sense of other people's not good. They can be sweet to her, and they can be foul to her, and that's about as much scope as they've got." The doctor puts another question: "Would you say, would you assent to the proposition that all women are mad?" Stanley replies, "Yes. No, not all. There are exceptions, naturally...