Our Flick of the Week is ”See You in the Morning,” a mostly effective drama of marriage, loss, divorce and remarriage. Alan J. Pakula wrote and directed this most personal story of a man and a woman who try to start life anew after losing their partners, one through death, the other through divorce.
Jeff Bridges plays a New York psychiatrist who is separated from model Farrah Fawcett and falls in love with Alice Krige, playing a young widow who still mourns her husband. It`s a talky film and surprisingly free from psychobabble as Bridges identifies Krige`s problem as being too servile and always finding fault in herself. Bridges is solid as always, but Krige is a luminous revelation.
Some of the situations are formula movie material, but more often than not ”See You in the Morning” succeeds in mirroring the difficulty of living with someone else and with oneself.
”See You in the Morning” is playing at Burnham Plaza, McClurg Court, Webster Place and outlying theaters. Rated PG-13. (STAR)(STAR)(STAR)
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– CRUSOE (Biograph). An effective retelling of the Robinson Crusoe legend, portraying Crusoe (Aidan Quinn) as a young slave trader who gets to encounter first hand the race he has been enslaving. Directed by Caleb Deschanel, who photographed ”The Black Stallion” and who brings the same sense of natural wonder to this story. Only a bloody throat-cutting sequence prevents this from being a film for all ages. PG-13. (STAR)(STAR)(STAR)
– DISORGANIZED CRIME (Webster Place and outlying). A dismal bank heist film in which an extraordinary number of problems crop up for the five crooks, beginning with the absence of the ringleader. R. (STAR) 1/2
– FIELD OF DREAMS (900 N. Michigan). Kevin Costner stars in an earnest but overwrought drama about an Iowa farmer whose faith in life is restored after he obeys a mysterious voice that asks him to build a baseball diamond in his cornfield so that banned-ballplayer Shoeless Joe Jackson can return to Earth and play again. The problem is that too many characters and too many stories crowd the field. PG. (STAR)(STAR)
– THE PERFECT MODEL (outlying). A decent if occasionally awkward urban drama of a young movie star who returns home the conquering hero and faces a choice between a slick actress and a poor, ghetto girl. What`s refreshing about the film is its easy sexuality and the frank exchanges between the lead characters. It`s also rare to see a movie ostensibly about a modeling contest in which you never see the contest. R. (STAR)(STAR) 1/2
– SEE YOU IN THE MORNING (Burnham Plaza, McClurg Court, Webster Place, and outlying). This week`s Flick of the Week. See above. PG-13. (STAR)(STAR)
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