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From: moriarty@fluke.UUCP (Jeff Meyer)
Newsgroups: net.movies
Subject: Re: MASS APPEAL
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Date: Sun, 22-Sep-85 15:08:02 EDT
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In article <1182@mtgzz.UUCP> leeper@mtgzz.UUCP (m.r.leeper) writes:
>     My big complaint with the film was that it had the potential to evolve
>into a philosophical debate on the liberalization of the church.

Which is precisely why I liked this movie so much -- Between AGNES OF GOD,
CONFESSIONS and other movies dealing with Growing Up and Being Catholic (as
George Carlin says), I've had it up to here with two-hour long spiels on
what to do about the church.  I watched (and enjoyed) MASS APPEAL for it's
acting and characters -- Jack Lemmon still lends that edge of believablity
to his characters (especially if there's a good script behind it, which
there is here), and when he (finally) trys a courageous act at the end of
the film, you feel like he actually had to muster it up (as humans do),
instead of having it built-in (as fictional heroes do).  Admittedly, there
is a bit of good-guy/bad-guy typecasting here (mainly in Charles Durning --
why don't they give him more musical comedy?), but it still is a very
enjoyable film.

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