Crossover Dreams/Maxie/Mishima/Plenty (1985)

Gene Siskel and Roger Ebert review Crossover Dreams, Maxie, Mishima: A Life in Four Chapters and Plenty.

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Gene Siskel and Roger Ebert review four new movies. Two thumbs up for the engaging Crossover Dreams about a salsa singer who wants mainstream success. Siskel's only complaint is that its theme of artistic integrity gets fuzzy at the end. Two thumbs down for the fantasy-comedy, Maxie with Glenn Close. The critics were "stunned" by the boring premise of a 1920s flapper possessing a modern San Francisco woman and by its witless execution. Two thumbs up for Paul Schrader's "audacious" Mishima: A Life in Four Chapters about Yukio Mishima, the controversial Japanese author. It aims for greatness in a play-it-safe era of movie-making and achieves it. Two thumbs up for Plenty with Meryl Streep as a WWII freedom fighter who can't adjust to peacetime. Siskel sees it as an indictment of British society; Ebert sees it as a fascinating character study.

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1985 (USA)

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