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1979
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Shattering. A potently affecting “doomed romance” whose honest, complicated way of portraying its characters cements its quiet sadness. For as disturbed and unlikable as Charles (a mesmerizing John Heard) so often is, his earnestness — and the earnestness with which writer-director Joan Macklin Silver’s portrays him — makes his every uncomfortable movement devastatingly watchable. But of course, his character would not hit with the same weight were it not for Laura (the incredible Mary Beth Hurt), whose struggle for personal happiness powerfully juxtaposes…
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