Word: wintermouth
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...island off Norway at the end of 1999, in the early light of the 21st century. Diane and Stony McBride (Madeline Kahn and Joel Grey) are the fun couple of the '90s: he is directing a movie about Marco Polo, and she is having an affair with Tom Wintermouth (Chris Sarandon), a global Mr. Fixit who has ingeniously resolved the Arab-Israeli crisis by creating the state of Saudi Israel...
...Stony now discovers, his mother was really his father as well, having undergone a sex change at Johns Hopkins Hospital. Poor Stony-suffering from a new version of that old dramatic ailment, the identity crisis-dreams of falling in love with a sensuous plant, which at least has roots. Wintermouth finds and loses the cure for cancer. He is instantaneously transformed from the world's hero into its fool for that carelessness, and he ends up with Hitler's love letters to Eva Braun, which he finds buried in the sand. Still, he says-in what seems...
...flashes of what it might have been. The first scene, where husband, wife and wife's lover trade epigrams, has some of the flavor of the early Noel Coward-without, unfortunately, Coward's fine, glyptic phrasing. Describing an earthquake that has just killed 20 million Italians, Wintermouth mourns "Poor Italy. Shaped like a boot, and the heel fell off." Madeline Kahn, however, can make even the most ordinary lines sound like Coward...
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