Director Joan Micklin Silver’s attractively played, perceptively written and hugely entertaining 1977 cult movie focuses on life on a Boston youth-slanted underground newspaper whose staff is scared over gossip that it might be sold off in a takeover by big business.
The movie has the ring of confidence and truth about it and John Heard (as Harry Lucas), Lindsay Crouse, Jeff Goldblum, Jill Eikenberry, Stephen Collins, Bruno Kirby, Gwen Welles, Michael J Pollard, Marilu Henner and co. give fresh and appealing performances and really look like a cast going places.
The perceptive writer is Fred Barron. It is shot by K V Sickle, produced by Raphael Silver and designed by Stuart Wurtzel.
Also in the cast are Susan Haskins, Douglas Kenney, Joe Morton, Lane Smith, Jon Korkes, Richard Cox, Raymond J Barry, Lewis J Stadlen and Gary Springer.
It was misleadingly advertised as ‘ The Comedy-Romance of the Year!’
RIP John Heard, who died on 21 July 2017, aged 72. He was found dead by staff in a hotel in Palo Alto, California, where he was recovering from minor back surgery at Stanford University Medical Center.
He recalled: ‘I guess I went from being a young leading man to being just kind of a hack actor.’
© Derek Winnert 2017 Classic Movie Review 5800
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