Rocky romance: rocky as in shaky, bumpy, stormy; also Rocky as in Mountains. The sort of newspaperman whom Paul Sorvino brought back to life in Slow Dancing in the Big City -- the Jimmy Breslinesque Voice of the People whose column is avidly devoured by every mugger, hooker, and cab driver in town -- is sent on assignment to interview a reclusive and beautiful ornithologist studying the Bald Eagle in Wyoming. What ensues is a great deal of city-boy-in-the-wilderness humor (bears run off with his cigarettes, etc.), which might have worked better, along with the rocky-romance parts, if John Belushi were able to play anything but John Belushi. A less limited and self-conscious actor than he would be needed to lend credibility to this fragile daisy-chain of contrived situations and forced funny stuff, capped off with a happy ending made possible only by an all-obliterating gust of background music. With Blair Brown and Allen Goorwitz; written by Lawrence Kasdan; directed by Michael Apted. (1981) — Duncan Shepherd
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