Manchurian Candidate, The (1962)
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Happy, Texas, directed by Mark Illsley, is an intermittently funny tale of two escaped convicts who steal a recreational vehicle and find themselves forced to maintain their cover by impersonating a couple of gay organizers of little-girl beauty pageants. Jeremy Northam, an excellent British actor with a very good American accent, and Steve Zahn are…
Another propaganda effort, along the lines of Pleasantville or American Beauty, against what could still be called, in the 1950s, middle class morality.
One star for Ron Howard’s attempt to bring back an old-fashioned, unhip hero who seems to have come from the moon rather than New Jersey
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The long-awaited film version of the s-f classic from the 1970s proves a disappointment — mainly because the 1970s are just so over
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