The Best Picture Winners, Part 12 | Gone With the Wind (Part 1 of 2)
It has been a perennial of American film [...]
Comedy
Tempest (1982)
Shakespeare’s “The Tempest” wasn’t one of the bard’s plays that I studied in either high school or college. My class curriculum stuck with the more...
The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas (1982)
There is a song early in The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas that I think illustrates the basic problem with this movie. It says of...
The World According to Garp (1982)
The World According to Garp is based on the only John Irving book that I ever read. I read it in college and all I...
Hanky Panky (1982)
For the rest of my life, I will remain a fan of Gene Wilder. I mean, the man is a precious gift to comedy –...
Dead Men Don’t Wear Plaid (1982)
Dead Men Don’t Wear Plaid was a movie that left me wanting the filmmakers to go back and try again. What they have here is...
Partners (1982)
What was the thinking here? Partners is a silly buddy comedy about a series of murders in the gay community. How is that funny in...
If You Could See What I Hear (1982)
I learn second-hand that the movie If You Could See What I Hear is based on a real person, Tom Sullivan, who is blind and...
