A director (Pat O'Connor) who has shown an inclination but no great aptitude for "sensitive" psychological studies (Cal, A Month in the Country) is not apt to suddenly seem just the right man for transatlantic satire, in the choppy backwash of Evelyn Waugh, descending gradually into knockabout farce. And sure enough. The targets of satire (the U.S. in general, but a particular address on Tobacco Road, just east of Dogpatch) would seem to have drawn the attention of the filmmakers simply by the number of brightly-feathered darts already dotting them. The cast is appealing, though: Daniel Day-Lewis, Harry Dean Stanton, Joan Cusack, Laurie Metcalfe, Glenne Headley, Will Patton, and, most of all, young Martha Plimpton. (1988) — Duncan Shepherd
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