sfpitt

I won't bore you folks with my armchair assessment of this film. Others can do that. But if you want to find a great, if underrated actor, give a performance you won't soon forget for all the right reasons, then watch this flick and Samuel L. Jackson. The man made me laugh so hard I pert near busted my britches.

I had the benefit of attending a coed Catholic High School with the freedom to challenge your soul. And so we were compelled to watch this emotionally compelling movie with Alan Arkin providing us the prism thru which the heart seeks love, finds it in unusual places and suffers the kind of pains that evade the limits of language. Even as high school juniors, we all knew people who struggled with the requirements of living. Such are the benefits of living in a town large enough to hold characters yet small enough to know about their lives. Don't discount Sandra Locke. She was perfectly cast and comes across as the duckling on the cusp of womanhood. She is imperfect. How human! Life is precious and often hard. The ways we all react demand attention. This movie helped teach me the power of the human soul and the frailties of the human heart.

Holly Hunter, William Hurt and Albert Brooks knock it out of the park in this case study of pretense, jealousy and bipolar love. If you were in your 20s or 30s in the late 1980s, you'll find yourself aching to go back in time. Big hair, big egos, big impacts and passion abound. Hurt, Hunter and Brooks pull off the rare 1+1+1=4.