Between the Lines
Summary:
Director Joan Micklin Silver's follow-up to her acclaimed debut, Hester Street, is a more ambitious film that manages to be both an entertaining comedy and a pointed look at the corrupting power of money on an idealistic enterprise. Writer Fred Barron's characters are all associated with a weekly alternative newspaper in Boston, modeled after the Phoenix. (Silver did on... Full Summary >>
Cast:
John Heard - (Harry)
Lindsay Crouse - (Abbie)
Jeff Goldblum - (Max)
Jill Eikenberry - (Lynn)
Bruno Kirby - (David)
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Review:
Joan Micklin Silver and Fred Barron's ingratiating comedy about youthful lives in Boston, a town with a heavy concentration of universities, is also a portrait of '60s idealism dashed by the political and business realities of the late '70s. The film also proved to be a launching pad for the careers of a number of talented actors, all of t... Continue >>
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