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There are a few other characters in the film--Kyle's clowning pal Bugaloo (Marlon Wayans), Kyle's wise old white coach (David Bailey), Kyle's no-nonsense single mother (Tonya Pinkins)--but they don't really have that much to do. However, none of these things matter once the movie reaches the climactic five-on-five streetball tournament...
...America Play, ultimately, succeeds in not only confronting history, but in doing it in a manner that feels historic: Parks is imaginative and wise in this play, and for a very young playwright, she demonstrates an amazing self-assurance in playing with language and genre. The America Play secures Park a place in the literary firmament of her generation...
...subject for the camera. While Bjornstrand's features oftern seem a mask concealing his ture emotions, Dahlbeck's face bears witness to all the joys and travails to which life has subjected her. Naima Wifstrand as old-Mrs. Armfeldt steals every scene she in which she appears; her impossibly wise old dragon is as good as anything Edna May Oliver ever did in Hollywood...
...rule the universe in their minds: they're just poor bastards without a place to sleep. We are not at all surprised when disillusionment sets in. When the exiled courtiers come to their senses and realize that life in a cardboard box sucks, they look more stupid than worldly-wise...
...readers will object that the female supporting characters are little more than shadows, some of them close to stereotype (Jewish Mother, Compulsive Shopper, Girl from the Wrong Side of the Tracks). But this should not prevent Canin from becoming required reading in Women's Studies 101. Above all, his wise stories are concerned with a subject common to both genders: the startling consequences of feeling...