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By David Baker
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I would just as soon
reviewing The Big Fix fo
week or two (secretly hop
might go off ), but my edi
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answer to Rex Reed.
Also, I might have
harder time trying to r
what I saw. As it is, I sa
most of the movie in
dreaming of the moment
credits would come rollii
enable me to leave. '
realization I came to di
seemingly endless scree
that The Big Fix must m
Richard Drey fuss' name
The frame of referen<
Goodbye Girl, and the bet
Fix can hope for is that it
Close Encounters of the T
tn thn CUor U)afo a#
vv utv UVVII Tf ? O VI JL lie
Girl. The great danger, <
is that The Big Fix will I
Goodbye Girl what the
F.I.S.T. was to the Stalloi
Certainly, the pressure
Big Fix precisely becfi
Goodbye Girl took off
stratosphere with Dreyl
ning the Best Actor Osc
process. If nothing else,
Fix will probably turn on
test of his drawing power i
most adverse of all cond
SHOULD THE movie t
be a hit, there will be not)]
do but offer Dreyi
presidency.
Roger L. S i.mon, who i
the novel and the si
screenplay, tries hard to
detective story into the
with a plot that touches (
of today's topical ssue
stead of getting right
business, as a good
thriller should, The Big I
about an hour establis
safeguarding the chai
Moses Wine (Dreyfuss).
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He's a scruffy,
c radical who dropped
i put off school to become a n
r another cessful private eye.
ingthatit opens, Moses is bei
itor would about back alimony i
as USC's his former wife, who 1
residence with an unfc
(image self1 help) in
ttl Al * -
ttu even uniiKe uie cnaraccei
emember Bert Convy in Michj
t through Semi-Tough.
a daze,
when the The plot begins to
lg up and shortly before a g
rhe only election in Califorai
uring the radical terrorist wh<
ning was living underground si
lake it on sends out flyers ann
alone. support for the Dem
didate.
le is The
it The Big FEARING sabotag
: will be a dictate's campaign
hird Kind attempts to hire Most
Goodbye who's behind the smet
)f course, Cynical about politic
be to The declines. He change
Stallone though, when he lea
le Rocky, assistant will be I
(Susan Anspach), ai
is on The from his days at Berl
i use rne
into the In the film's mid
uss win- Dreyfuss and Anspacl
ar in the of becoming a poor rr<
The Big of Nick and Nora CI
it to be a interplay while tracki
under the source of the phony c
itions. gives the film a ir,
spark. Unfortunately
spach's blazing pr
urn out to permeated the film
ling left to twenty minutes, she
uss the for knowing too much
so does the film.
In addition to t
wrote both someone for Dreyfus
nbsequent of, the last half of the
bring the from a case of th<
seventies, discover that, even
>n several grief, Moses is adoi
s. But in- adorable while he rid
down to with his two adorable
detective he is adorable wher
i'ix spends politics with his adort
thing and and he is adorable wh<
racter of politics with his adora
aunt, Sonya.
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take shape &
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a, when a
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nee the '60s .
ouncing his Miy
ocratic can;e,
the cancoordinator
is to find out ^Hg^.
ir campaign.
:ians, Moses Pi
s his mind, [
rns that his
ait* rrocari
i old flame
keley.
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ti show signs
ianfs version
larles. Their
^8 ^own toe INSTEAD OF
owiiciii, something new ab
iuch needed a8 aU this adorabl
'? after An- Dreyfuss keeps
esence has character, as If
for about approval. Such s
is murdered is too adorable fc
, As she dies,
Another proble
he lack of Fix is its languid <
s to play off Paul Kagan, who
; film suffers job with Heroes
5 CUtes. We the action t.hrnu
in times of colorfully seed
rable. He is
es on swings
children, and W
i he debates I
ible children,
en he debates I
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igh to establish any kind
osphere. Not heloina matt
:h is the soft, blurry quality
nk Stanley's cinematograp
lost every scene looks as i
e photographed through
> of Vaseline.
ie movie's most striking fli
ever, is the fact that
lera never seems to stray fr
yfuss' face. Even when ot
racters are mak
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ers treated to shots of Win
r of instead of shots of th
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of credits and noted th
aw, produced by none
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