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...lines. Susan Sarandon complements him, as the neurotic failure who flunks her state court reporting test seven consecutive times and is left by a high-school sweetheart to raise a son. And of course, there's the star of it all, Sarandon's neglected nine-year-old son (Will Wheaton), who brings the two unlikely lovers together...
...from the film's opening scenes, where Sarandon burns toast and Dreyfuss battles with his talking scale, The Buddy System leaves little to the audience's imagination. We know before Wheaton ever meets his ideal father that Dreyfuss will play Daddy Warbucks and take the kid under his wing, and that Sarandon will become his new playmate. The plot ostensibly thickens when Dreyfuss's old girlfriend--a mindless blonde who parrots '60s cliches--returns. But the audience has little doubt that everything will somehow work out when the three are seen happily planting tomatoes in the garden...
...film's failure to transcend conventional stereotype is as cumbersome as its reliance on stock gags and "cute" statements. Director Jordan's idea of humor--falling brooms and burning toast--is admittedly a sign of domestic chaos, but certainly an insufficient ploy to keep the audience in hysterics. Similarly, Wheaton's gratuitous use of slang phrases like "shit" and "knocked up" quickly becomes sophomoric and intellectually insulting to the audience...
...Fitzsimmons OG 6-2 230 Sr. Staten Island, NY 95 Burry Ford DT 6-3 298 Jr. Peckskill, NY 54 John Francis OC 6-0 245 Sr. Salem, MA 56 Jery Garvey MG 6-0 200 Se. Plainville, CT 47 Kevin Garvin LB 6-1 210 Sr. Wheaton, IL 57 John Gibbons LB 5-11 183 Se. Holyoke, MA 9 Greg Gizzi QB 5-11 185 Sr. Irvington, NY 52 Charlie Godinez OC 5-10 200 Se. McAllen, TX 79 Bernie Guekguezian DT 6-1 240 Se. Fresno, CA 11 Mike Hands QB 6-3 190 Se. Sun Prairic...
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