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Rated: R; Genre: Drama; With: Arija Bareikis, Blythe Danner, Hope Davis, Laurel Holloman and James LeGros...
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By Lisa Schwarzbaum
Lisa Schwarzbaum
Lisa Schwarzbaum
Lisa Schwarzbaum is a film critic for EW

THE MYTH OF FINGERPRINTS (R) Four adult children (and their significant others) reunite with their parents in their Norman Rockwell New England home. But one son (Noah Wyle, replicating his soulful-cutie TV style) is still simmering. Writer-director Bart Freundlich is smart to create an antidote to Woody Allen's WASP envy; he could have called this Nobody Says I Love You. But with its overdetermined intersections of too many oversimplified characters, this glum family reunion is about as involving as, say, an ad for Polo jeans. C


Posted Sep 26, 1997
 

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