SWING SHIFT (1984) ** Oh what a tangled web we weave...when we run around fucking everybody. With America in the thralls of family values and good ol' conservatism what could Goldie Hawn do but make a film about cheating on a husband off fighting the Japs? It's another angle to the trevails of war, things can never be dull enough on the home front for the boys on the front lines. And they aren't always. They're both deserving and accomplished actors, and have sustained a lasting relationship in the most difficult place on earth, but the only weakness in Goldie and Kurt Russell's performances is the lack of passion between them. You'd like to think something like "Attention from Kurt Russell and stuck married to Ed Harris, what's a poor girl to do?", but instead it's more like "Why are any of these people acting like this?" This would have to be about the last thing that you'd expect from Jonathan Demme (who directed Caged Heat). Boredom and loneliness have to be part of the equation but that's not the way that the script is working it. Cinematic realism, offering important and specific insights but without the feel of reality.
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