Word: widescreen
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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HEARTBREAKERS IS A SMART, intriguing film about men male ambition, last, fantasy and love--projected onto the widescreen of male friendship. Writer-director Bobby Roth explores the treacherous every man's zone between comradeship and rivals in the lifelong friendship of roughish artist. Arthur Blue (Peter Coyote) and staid businessman Eli Kahn (Nick Mancuso). Unfortunately for Roth's thirty-five year old heroes, three women keep coming between Blue and Eli, tangling up the friends' good intentions and bringing out their competitive worst...
...young Director Ace Tyro has toiled for three years to complete his widescreen, R-rated indictment of major league baseball, All That Yaz. Its original running time: 135 minutes. But Tyro decides to cut five minutes for the premiere, and another five minutes after the first week of its release. He adds 20 minutes for the European version. For airplane showings the movie is softened to get a PG rating and cut to two hours flat; the airline projectors can hold only that much film...