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"The " reunites Harrison Ford and Peter Weir after "Witness," for which they both received Academy Award nominations. Ford's performance may make him a dark horse for such a nomination in this long-anticipated film however, Weir is unlikely to ....

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... villains back when Jessica Mitford first wrote about planned obsolescence in the 1950s, but now they're just tired subjects. And, in Paul Schrader's heavy-verbiage screenplay they're just plain annoying. On and on, a Hawaiian-shirted Ford spouts the evils of double-digit inflation and plastic consumerism. He's so fanatic about it, he's uprooted his family from their pastoral home home and lugged them off to a primitive jungle coast. He's filled with cockeyed, romantic notions on building a jungle utopia for himself and his family. In this decision, as in all other decisions, the family, including his dutiful supportive wife (Helen Mirren), t ...