A different and diffident sort of movie comedy, which takes up the limited-interest subject of a Boston underground newspaper, why it lost its aim in the post-Nixon Seventies, and how it finishes the good fight not with a bang, but with a whimper. The style is realistic caricature, and it seems especially well suited to deflating the self-importance of the paper's two crackerjack journalists, who resemble younger versions of Robert Redford and George Peppard. Joan Micklin Silver, the director, seems very comfortable, lenient, and encouraging in her work with actors (no one takes better advantage of his chances than Jeff Goldblum, as the goofball rock critic); her awkwardness with the medium, however, becomes evident almost every time she cuts from one shot to the next. With John Heard, Lindsay Crouse, Stephen Collins, and Gwen Welles. (1977) — Duncan Shepherd
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