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After that, forget it. The plot, based on a true story, has a vengeful wife (Tracey Ullman) determined to knock off her philandering husband (Kline), but the fellow proves strangely indestructible. This sort of homicidal fable demands the stiletto of satire -- the very weapon flourished by Italian director Pietro Germi in his brilliant '60s comedies Divorce Italian Style and Seduced and Abandoned. But what played in Sicily for Germi doesn't work in Tacoma, Wash., for Lawrence Kasdan. This crime does not spring from the polluted mores of a medieval society; it is the private whim of an exasperated woman...
...tony cast members are made to play against their strengths. Kline buckles under the burden of an Italian accent not heard since the passing of Chico Marx. Ullman tamps down her TV exuberance and meekly disappears into the black hole of her role. Joan Plowright, a grande dame of English theater, plays a Yugoslav granny, and loses. William Hurt, as a dim doper hired to kill Joey, works beyond his range and beneath his gifts. The same may be said of Kasdan. The director of Body Heat and The Big Chill now wastes his time on the movie equivalent...
With his squad comfortably ahead, 4-0, Dooleybegan using his third line of sophomores CourtneyHurley and Kath Ullman along with senior EmilyDiehl regularly in the last period...
...Ullman said that an order to tap a phone wouldremain secret until the investigation wasconcluded. Ullmann also suggested that federalauthorities, such as the FBI, would havejurisdiction over this type of an investigation...
This speculation points to domestic turmoil as the impetus for foreign adventure. But, Ullman and others fail to venture one step further...