John Wittenborn, USAFR. It was 1977 and we were on an old DC8 Air Ceylon coming in to Colombo, Ceylon from Bangkok. The landing approach was pretty bumpy, but the biggest bump was saved for when we hit the tarmac - a massive shudder and ...
When the pair's relaxing sojourn at a country bestate/b leads to a skirmish with a trio of backwoods toughs, Danny is beaten unconscious and scarred, and Alice brutally raped. In an attempt to cope with the trauma, the two put their heads ...
... Ogden (Donald Sutherland), a friendly and wise old billionaire who's graciously invited Finn and his mother Liz (Diane Lane), a masseuse and recovering alcoholic/coke addict, to stay at his obscenely enormous bestate/b for the summer! ... Director Griffin Dunne's ability to elicit fine performances from Lane and Sutherland, who share a mature, authentic chemistry, initially overshadows the easy-target critique supplied by Dirk bWittenborn's/b script (from his own novel). ...