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The Christian Science monitor (1983), 07/2014Newspaper Article
Patricia Arquette as Olivia and Ethan Hawke as Mason Sr., the boy's divorced parents; and Lorelei Linklater (the director's daughter) as Mason's slightly older sister. (Potential "big" moments, such as Olivia's physical abuse at the hands of her alcoholic second husband, played by Marco Perella, happen off-screen.) Linklater's dramatic technique here isn't necessarily any more revelatory than more conventional methods employed by such film artists as Francois Truffaut, who, in his "Antoine Doinel" series, could transmit the passage into adulthood without taking 12 years to record one film.
