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By David Baker
Film Critic
"Hard Country " is hard, nigh on
The characters in this maudlir
novie don't go straight from Poi
rom Point A to Point B by way of p
'lie meaningless sirip trin a
he whole affair becomes sleep[erous
movie ever has been made,
Jan-Michael Vincent, who's getti
e playing 25-year-olds, heads the
owpoke who spends his days wor
ompany and his nights blowing of
edneck wallow called the Stallion.
KIM BASINGER plays Vincent'
perator who longs for a life as a :
.os Angeles. Her biggest problem
rincent to leave the prairie.
The couple's story could be p
nnutes, but it rambles on for near!
ventually becoming, for all practfl
uaalude.
Basinger's desire to leave Texl
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rector Connie Blanken- forr
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em up until they feel they Gyr
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SC's production of "Holy Lav
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stewardess and a home in tl
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hael Dowell, who played
title role in USC's
uary production of "Peer
it," will play Coleman
dman. His wife Nancy
be played by Fredrica
.'lor, a USC acting inictor.
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