The Miami Herald from Miami, Florida • 42

3 2D Movies The Miami Herald Friday Oct 7 1983 takes no point of view Not and not Review Oeviev away the lecture to son over a box of Wheaties on the nature of the oppression at the hands of bosses The meeting of the children with their parents by this time on Death Row at Sing Sing is a more conventional scene until Patin-kin comes in raving with his collection of insects the product of spare time in stir on a mind once feverishly committed to more than counting days The death scenes are simply horrifying as Lumet without quite moving his film over the edge makes sure we see down there Lumet again gets splendid performances he almost always does Only Hutton who is so swathed in beard and mane that he has nothing to work with but his eyes seems pallid and his weakness in the title role is not the catastrophe it would be if Daniel were more bring to their familiarly shaped roles extra dimensions Susan is a remarkably tormented creature as if the actress had done some odd physical damage to her self in preparation she is pinched and nervous and erratic and doomed In smaller roles Edward Asner (as the defense attorney who gets a sympathetic casting in this version) and Ellen Barkin as wife blithely uncommitted and and almost luminous for it among the extended wounded family around her are excellent Daniel may not mean much to those searching for specific revelations about the Rosenbergs It is not that story but one about a peculiar American era and the peculiar traumas on people and on ideas that were wrought by that era Daniel is so well made that it may be forgiven its distance from facts and even DANIEL from ID deaths a foregone conclusion while never losing the urgency of a story of the living com-ing-to-terms Unhappily Lumet ends Daniel's journey of self-discovery not with a point of view about the Rosen-bergsIsaacsons but with a cakefrosting treatment of the gathering of radicals to whom Daniel has apparently felt drawn at last a bad ending effecting a tenuous link between the officially committed Communists of the '30s and '40s and the casually zealous radicals of the and it is unnecessary What redeems the movie is its success in limning the relationship of son and daughter to notorious parents and there are few aspects of these relationships early and late that Lumet does not reveal in one or another powerful scene Several are remarkable: the appearance at a rally for their parents at which they are passed hand By BILL COSFORD Herald Movie Critic I In Romantic Comedy Dudley Moore and Mary Steenburgen play writers who meet cute work together cute for a decade or so and part cute all without either ever realizing that the other is in love with himher At the end there is an opportunity for each to find out but by then the movie is long lost largely because the principals though cute are so dumb we could not possibly care less about them The movie was adapted by Bernard Slade from his play and has the cramped entrance-laugh and exit-laugh feel of a stagebound production throughout The story moves slowly toward situations that are telegraphed loudly and frequently as if Slade feared he was writing for an audience of Martians tranquilized Neil Simon and it is boring Misuse of Dudley Moore who has not been wonderful since thus continues as Arthur Hiller becomes the latest in a series of directors misled by the assumption that mere appearance in a scene will bring forth laughter in long merry peals This is not so in fact as he grows older Moore grows increasingly and likable looking and less funny looking He now seems locked into a character that of the imposingly affluent professional who live with women and live without but that matter so much if he had something to work with to make such a character consistently funny (consider Jimmy Stewart Cary Grant etc) One of the big laughs in Romantic Comedy alas is this exchange between Moore and Frances Stern-hagen as his agent after his latest play has been panned She: getting drunk the answer?" He: but it makes you forget the That one like many of the others creaks and it creaked when Cheech and Chong first recycled it as a dope joke and it creaked the decade before that mildy funny when Steenburgen playing naive and ap- Daniel (R) CAST Timothy Hutton Edward Asner Mandy Patmkin Lmdsay Crouse Joseph Leon Amanda Plummer EHen Barkm Tovah Feldshuh John Rubinstein Maria Turct Julie Bovasso CREDITS Director Sidney Lumet Producer Burtl Harris Screenwriter Ooctorow Based on Doctorow novel 'The Book of Daniel" Cinematographer Andrzej Bartkowiak Music various composers A Paramount Pictures release Running time 130 minutes Vulgar language graphic death scenes AMhe DADE Gables to hand over the heads of the crowd to the stage where they may be rallied about like living posters the reaction as FBI agents ransack the Isaacson apartment and he first understands far too young how control of his life may be torn Tender Mercies (R) aaa Robert Duvall turns in a fine performance as a broken-down country singer taken in by a good woman It the kind of movie that puts a smile on your tare (Profanity Trading Places (R) aa John Landis delivers two movies in one Eddie Murphy and Dan Aykroyd as the well-sketched street character and biueblood who switch lives and a romp of supporting actors (Vulgar language nudity La Traviata (G) Franco Zeffirelli splendid translation of Verdi fo film with Plando Domingo and Teresa Stratas A treasure In Malian with English subtitles Zhg(PGjY Despite its flaws if seems too long and is sometimes dull Woody Allen latest film is still funny and often brilliant Recommended Returns Revivals and Festivals Beaumont Cinema A Clockwork Orange (Unrated) through Safur day Last Year of Manenbad (Unrated) and High Road fo China (PG) through Sunday Grove Cinema Annie Hall (PG) Sleeper (PG) Betrayal (R) Jeremy Irons and Ben Kingsley in a slow absorbing adaptation of Harold Pinter's play about a ro mantic triangle (Vulgar language Dmer (R) aaa Six guys hang around the diner circa 1959 A first film from Barry Levinson who uses a talented cast of llftle-knowni to fix the period beautifully funny and sad a refreshing slice-of life movie (Vulgar language adult themes Normandy Gateway Mai Dugan Returns (PG) aaa Jason Robards as an ex-con trying to shower money on his reluctant family more charming that It sounds Written by Nell Simon directed by Herbert Ross (Brief vulgar language Multiple theater run Tootsie (PG) aaa Dustin Hoffman plays a starving actor driven to Impersonate an actress to get work A witty script Is well directed by Sydney Pollack and Dustin Hoffman proves once again that he can do nearly anything with Jessica Lange Charles Durnlng Dabney Coleman Bill Murray and Teri Garr (Vulgar language Other First-Run Angelo My Love (R) A a Robert Duvall first feature film as a director focuses on a precocious gypsy lad of the streets A film of considerable warmth but not very good (Vulgar language Beyond the Limit R) a Richard Gere and Michael Came make a muddle oul of a plot based on Graham Greene "The Honorary Consul (Vulgar language nudity Implicit sex violence The Big Chill R) aaW Though Lawrence Kasdan tale of the reunion of old 60s friends is thoroughly entertaining it not Romantic Comedy CAST Dudley Moore Mary Steenburgen Frances Stern-hagen Janet Either Robyn Douglass Ron Leib-man CREDITS Director Arthur Hiller Producers Walter Mirisch Morton Gottlieb Screenwriter Bernard Slade Based on the play by Slade Cinematographer David Walsh Music Marvin Hamlisch An MGMUA release Two mild vulgarities For theater locations see Openings listing parently virginal collaborator former English teacher from Vermont where they apparently have less sex than along Sutton Place where Moore has his plushest-in-all-Manhattan digs confesses that after the play was panned she got drunk and up on the Slade and Hiller apparently thought it was funny too and they bring it back for a couple of reprise workouts Steenburgen also is wasted but not so much by the script as by her essential wrongness for the part so goofy looking and behaves so unpleasantly whining and cowering by turns intimidated by a vastly shorter man that she is never funny at all She can do better work if this were the Steenburgen of Time After Time the movie might have a little lift to it Editing and continuity two elements of modern Hollywood film-making that are generally quite good (and hence not noticed) are surprisingly crude in this film on several occasions when point-of-view shifts occur it is plain that the two sides of a scene were made at different times perhaps in different years the characters change expression even mood in the split-second we watching them That would be a quibble if there were anything right with the film but there As character says at one point meaning it to be a joke takes a lot of thought to appear Indeed and a lesson there somewhere 'f a fvfy PkAMAM 5t Xt' th Herald movie critic Bill Cosford rates movies from lero to four Han ooo Excellent ooow Very Good a Good eW Average Fair Poor Zero Worlhltss Openings Daniel (R) aa' Sidney Lumet powerful well performed adapt tiofl of Doctorow i "The Book of Daniel' screenplay by Doctorow (Vulgar language graphic death Irenes DADE Gables Escape 7000 (Unrated) (not yet reviewed) The Deviates (Steve Railsbark Olivia Hussey) meet the evil Enforcers In this futuristic adven ture DADE Apollo Omni Trianon Roxy Marl na Movies at the Falls America Tropicaire Drlve-m BROWARD Movies at Pompano Sheri dan Coral Springs Movie Center Lares Movies at Plantation Lakeshor Drive-in Thunderbird Drlve-m PALM BEACH Boca Mall Cross County Delray Dnve-m The Final Option (R) (not yet reviewed) Fanatical anti nuke group takes American and British VIPs hostage tangles with the British Special Air Services With Judy Oavis Richard Wid mark DADE Apollo ByronCarlyie Regency Coral Springs Mall BROWARD Movie City Plata Inverrary Thunderbird Drivln PALM BEACH Cross County Twin City Bora II Never Say Never Again (PG) (not yet reviewed) Bond is back this time with Sean Connery who reprises his 007 role after a 12 year absence Barbara Carrera and Berme Casey cottar DADE Marti Hialeah Cinema ByronCarlyie Sunny Isles Campbell Square Cutler Ridge Kendale akes Movies at the Falls Westchester BROWARD Galleria Pompano Cinema 4 Sheridan Holiday Springs Lakes Movies at Plantation PALM BEACH Cinema 70 Jupiter PGA Village Green Boynton Delray Square Romantic Comedy (PG) A Dudley Moore and Mary Steenburgen In tepid love affair (Two mild vulgarities DADE Omni Hialeah Cinema ByronCarlyie 170th Street Cutler Ridge Movies at the Falls Movies of Kendall Regency BROWARD Movie City Movies at Pompano Palm Aire Southland Cinema 4 Sheri dan Broward Mall Coral Spring Movie Center Inverrary PALM BEACH Cinema 70 Mall PGA Boynton Delray Square Movies at Town Center Movies of Lake Worth Recommended Flist-Run Fanny end Alexander (R) The film that Ingmar Bergman said would be his last three-hour summing up" of the director themes and world views Also a grand soap opera handsomely made In Swedish with English subtitles (Nudity implicit sex) Return of the Jedl (PO) aaa Third (and last for several years) in the 'Star Wars" senes with Mark Hsmill Carrie Fisher and Harrison Ford Full of nifty special effects though surprisingly taiky The secrets of the uni verse as George Lucas sees It are revealed and It a must for fans (Harmless though action scenes might frighten young children Oclopussy (PG) a a Mi The 13th James Bond adventure is weak but some of the gimmicks are great fun (Brief nudity mild violence Risky Business (R) aa High school kids open a brothel while Mom and Dad are away glossy male-deflowering picture that occasionally takes Itself seriously (Vulgar MATINEE 9UNOAY thru FRIDAY JlU hi 2 30 PM SATUROAY til 6 OO PM SENIOR CITIZENS and UNDER ITS $2 00 AT ALL TIMES ESEcSSSSr JAMIf BONO The Song Remains the Same (PG) Mercede Up in Smoke (R) Skylake The Warriors (R) Manna I 7 1 ft Lv rr vV 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