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Owen Gleiberman
Owen Gleiberman is a film critic for EW
Lawrence Kasdan's fortysomething follow-up to ''The Big Chill'' is way too self-conscious -- it has a solemn zeitgeist chic. Yet Kasdan is also a canny, intuitive entertainer; he knows actors and how to write for them. Kevin Kline plays an immigration lawyer whose life acquires purpose when he befriends a black tow-truck driver (Danny Glover) -- an act of white-liberal guilt that, miraculously, begins to transcend its own contrivance. The other performers include Mary McDonnell, Mary-Louise Parker, and Steve Martin. Beneath its soul-of-an-era pretensions, the movie is a very classy soap opera that holds a generous mirror up to its audience's anxieties.
Posted Feb 21, 1992
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