Word: willingham
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Laura Dern's innocent horniness as the servant girl who gets a middle-class Southern family all hot and bothered was one of the year's comic and erotic delights. Calder Willingham's script and Martha Coolidge's direction flavored a warm, steamy brew with just the right amounts of lemon and honey...
...well-acted, sweetly stated and emotionally predictable tale of an estranged couple brought together by a visiting child, with Rambling Rose, which portrays a much more genially dysfunctional family involved with a randy and amiably obliging serving girl played by Laura Dern. Based on a script that Calder Willingham derived from his own novel, Rose's true preoccupation is one that the movies always cater to slyly but almost never directly confront: basic, down-and- goofy human horniness...
...wanders the halls of Buckingham Palace in his satin Green Bay Packers jacket. He has a problem: How can a Las Vegas lounge performer master the art of kingship after a rather silly accident has wiped out all the more logical candidates for the job? Peter O'Toole as Willingham, his private secretary, keeps humming a few bars of the right tune. But a regal song is just not one Ralph can fake...