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Very good post.

I am also back in this way.

Hell yeah right by my grandma's house. In my mind it said "Convenience" though.

Directed by Michael Apted, following his Oscar win for Coal Miner’s Daughter. Stephen Spielberg was going to direct this, but instead wisely opted for Raiders of the Lost Ark.

Things get more convoluted after the two lovers part. Ernie returns to Chicago, exposes more corruption, and Nell comes to town for a lecture. None of that matters because things are drab, and the two leads lack chemistry. Eventually they end up together.

The two are immediately at odds with each other, but Nell is convinced to let Ernie stay for two weeks. After confronting poachers, getting attacked by various animals, and falling down a bunch, Ernie wins her over, and they make love in a very dimly lit scene.

Chicago newspaper reporter Ernie Souchak (Belushi) runs afoul of a local politician after exposing corruption and is reassigned to the wilds of Wyoming to cover Nell Porter (Brown), a scientist researching bald eagles.

Continental Divide (1981) Conceived by writer Lawrence Kasdan as a tribute to screwball comedies of the 1940s (think His Girl Friday). Tonally it can’t commit and, at times, plays like uninspired slapstick with Belushi’s buffoonery in contrast to Brown’s uptight scientist romantic interest.

Four names are listed in the “Screenplay By” section and two in the “Story By” section, totaling five men who insisted on writing credit for this movie.

Nice poster though. We acknowledge Drew Struzan is a legacy talent but holy shit in the late 80s there was no project he wouldn’t turn down.

This foolishness is wrapped up in 89 minutes of mediocre jokes about the difference between sexes, prat falls, emasculating mock-combat situations, and one of George Segal’s worst performances.

The plot makes little sense. A candy company run by a tyrannical military man has monthly all-male executive employee war games that everyone is fanatical about. Their wives feel left out and take it upon themselves to undergo military training so they can compete as well.

All's Fair (1989) Yet another post-Police Academy attempt at comedy via bumbling idiots unified by an occupation or social group.

Jonathan Goldsmith, of The Most Interesting Man in the World fame, plays the role of Noel, one of Dubeck’s army buddies hiding from life in Vietnam.

But then things take a rushed turn as Dubeck suddenly realizes that the random street hustler kid, Trung, who has been coming around, is his actual son. Or maybe it’s meant metaphorically? I don’t know, and it all happens so fast that any emotional impact is lost.

Winfield is affecting in his performance, and there’s genuinely disturbing footage from within the orphanages. There’s also wild footage of garbage-lined streets and children scavenging.

After visiting several orphanages, he becomes engrossed in the lives of the children and begins teaching. Dubeck’s search for his green-eyed child and the mother takes him through various encounters with townsfolk and Margaret Sheen, a well-intentioned orphanage manager.

Green Eyes (1977) Veteran Lloyd Dubeck (Paul Winfield) returns home and finds America unwilling to reintegrate veterans into society. Disillusioned and unable to find work, he returns to Vietnam to look for the child he fathered while recuperating there.

Look at this scumbag!

This culminates in the usual prison film tropes: rape, suicide, shanking, racial conflict, corrupt guards, moral guards and an uncovering of an unscrupulous regime. It steers gritty/sleazy but manages to be subdued and chill with an underplayed dramatic tension. Yes, it is all of these things.

Newly imprisoned, we join Jonathon as he learns to navigate the peaceful black group led by Lennox (Billy Dee Williams) and the sleazy drug dealer, Hugo Slocum (Morrow). After Jonathan refuses to peddle drugs for Hugo, things escalate.

In the clunky opening Jonathon (Alan Alda) witnesses a car hit his wife and baby. In a fit of rage, he throws/pushes the driver of the vehicle into the wheel well of the crashed car, where the driver then instantly dies. It’s filmed weirdly, disjointed, so it’s much less cool than it sounds.

The Glass House (1972) Plays like a more procedural Short Eyes but less New York and more philosophical contemplation with corruption steering the narrative. But holy cow! What an atmosphere! What acting! Vic Morrow is a total scumbag and 100% authentic and gross! Fuck you John Landis!

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Discogs make it happen. Always works.

It’s hard to believe, with such an unlikable lead, that this movie was directed by a woman and based on a novel written by a woman!

Isn’t this the stupid, most arrogant shit? Eventually, Charles catches wind of Laura’s living on her own. After visiting her at her new apartment, he realizes the spark is gone and spends the rest of the movie lamenting the end of the relationship through voiceover like an arrogant prick.

During one brazen moment, Charles and his friend Sam solicit a meeting with Laura’s contractor husband by posing as a gay couple interested in purchasing an A-frame home. This results in the four of them having drinks, during which Charles professes his love for Laura to the group.

Self-indulged thirtysomething Charles (John Heard) spends his days ruminating on his failed relationship with married former co-worker Laura (Mary Beth Hurt).

This would all be sentimental if Charles weren’t such an asshole who runs around sticking pencils in hair of ethnic women with afros.