TV news bulletin: a terrorist bomb has blown up a Marine headquarters in the Sinai, where one of the seven Springer brothers is stationed. The other six of them rally round the Springer matriarch, together with one girlfriend and the estranged husband and father, to await the casualty report. The one who says, "We're in for a long siege," says a mouthful. Long, and coarsely photographed, stagy, strained (if too much levity arises at the lunch table, Mom will bring things back to earth with, "Do you know what happens to a person when he's crushed to death?"), and hard to swallow (Dad's spells of blindness are diagnosed by his son, the veterinarian, as an allergic reaction to hot tea and the household cat). Good efforts, though steeply uphill, by Susan Sarandon, Robert Sean Leonard, Marcia Gay Harden, Sean Astin, and Sam Shepard. Directed by Robert Allan Ackerman. (1994) — Duncan Shepherd
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