Pierce O'Donnell, 102. There was once a time when popular American movies told the stories of adults. Even characters in their thirties or forties behave in a simple-minded, narcissistic way, and rarely do they have serious opinions about anything. Roger Ebert, xiii. Hardly ever do we get an American movie about adults who are attempting to know themselves better, live better lives, get along more happily with the people around them.
Most American movies are about the giving and receiving of violent pain.
Roger Ebert, 618. David Prindle, 25. Hollywood has cheapened the teen-age years into predictable vulgarity . . . Charles Kipps, 230. Nicholas Kent, 139.