nothing.Īnd "nothing" pretty much sums up The Pursuit of Happiness biggest drawback (just like in Summertree): its lead character.
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And certainly, films like The Pursuit of Happiness have to make one wonder how Mulligan captured this rep as a quiet, anonymous genius who turned out classics the public and the critics didn't always "get." A film of almost supernatural indifference (and yes, I understand that may been the intent of the film's message, but that doesn't mean the movie itself has to just lay there and die), The Pursuit of Happiness isn't good, and it isn't bad, and it isn't inbetween: it's just. I'm now probably in the minority of critics who feel that director Robert Mulligan was at best, overrated, but during his career, it was much more acceptable to question his efforts, prior to his now virtual canonization over the equally overrated To Kill a Mockingbird. Soon, William is off to prison, where a series of further misadventures make him question his very role in the American society he can no longer tolerate. Marshall), a cold, calculating, influential lawyer who immediately plots out William's "escape" from justice - an escape William increasingly doesn't want.
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William's license is expired, and his brakes are gone, and it looks like he may be in serious trouble, so John calls his brother-in-law, Daniel Lawrence (E.G. Wishing to see his father, John (Arthur Hill), who apparently has rejected the call of the Popper family to be wealthy movers and shakers by living out in the country to paint, William heads out into the rainy night in his fashionably beat-up/expensive sports car.and promptly smacks into an old woman crossing the street between two parked cars. Not at all interested in joining his girlfriend Jane Kauffman (Barbara Hershey) at a political rally, he entertains a visit from his Aunt Ruth (Sada Thompson), who worries that William is "getting off track" (and who is scandalized when she sees gorgeously-naked Jane come out of William's shower). It's the height of the madness in the streets of 1970 New York City as blown-out former campus radical (and scion of a wealthy family) William Popper (Michael Sarrazin) sails his toy boat on a pond in Central Park. Laid-back to the point of catatonia, and deliberately obtuse without being at least interesting, dull-as-dishwater The Pursuit of Happiness makes Summertree look like a work of art by comparison.
drama (?) starring Michael Sarrazin, Barbara Hershey and E.G.
marketing buzzwords Sony plastered on the DVD case, about The Pursuit of Happiness, the 1970 Robert Mulligan-directed. I ranted more fully about Sony's bogus Martini Movies brand in my review of Summertree, the other Vietnam-era youth picture I'm reviewing this week, but suffice it to say: there is nothing remotely "martini" or "swinging" or "camp" or "iconic" or any of the other b.s.
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