moriarty@fluke.UUCP (Jeff Meyer) (01/07/86)
Frankly, any film which lasts two hours and forty minutes and
doesn't make me look at my watch once is what I would call a
critical success. Great photography, good music, engrossing
dialogue, excellent acting by Streep, Robert Redford plays
America's Intelligent Leading Man with his normal style (while
Sylvester Stallone and Chuck Norris vie for America's
Unintelligent Leading Man), and in general, you feel later as if you
have read a good novel. People who need zany comedies and action
pictures during the holidays may have problems with this. About
the best description I can give of this film is that upon walking
out of the theatre, I felt as if I had just had a good gourmet meal.
I leave the amateur psychologists to figure THAT one out...
"Based on what you know about him in history books,
what do you think Abraham Lincoln would be doing if
he were alive today?
1) Writing his memoirs of the Civil War.
2) Advising the President.
3) Desperately clawing at the inside of his
coffin."
-- David Letterman
Moriarty, aka Jeff Meyer
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