Word: welland
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Britain's been here before, most famously in 1982, when Chariots of Fire picked up four Academy Awards including Best Picture, and screenwriter Colin Welland accepted his Oscar with the cry, "The British are coming!" Few British films have done that well since - but, then, it's getting harder to define a British film. According to the Treasury, Britain's Finance Ministry, a film is considered British if it fulfills a certain number of cultural points: one point if the director is a British citizen, two if over 50% is shot in Britain, and so on. What's a little...
Twice in a Lifetime would deserve respectful attention if all it did were redress that imbalance. But the story of how the 30-year marriage of Steelworker Harry Mackenzie (Hackman in another solid performance) and his wife Kate (Ellen Burstyn) sunders has another dimension. Scenarist Welland (who wrote Chariots of Fire with another kind of class consciousness) and Director Yorkin (who created All in the Family with Norman Lear) want to use the Mackenzies' disorder to explore sympathetically an entirely unfashionable layer of life...