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<text id=90TT0698>
<title>
Mar. 19, 1990: On the Road
</title>
<history>
TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1990
Mar. 19, 1990 The Right To Die
</history>
<article>
<source>Time Magazine</source>
<hdr>
CINEMA, Page 82
On the Road
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<body>
<p>By Richard Schickel
</p>
<qt> <l>COUPE DE VILLE</l>
<l>Directed by Joe Roth</l>
<l>Screenplay by Mike Binder</l>
</qt>
<p> Sibling rivalry, as everyone knows, is a whiny bore. Only
brave souls would dare contemplate it as a movie subject. Only
clever (and compassionate) ones could bring it off as well as
have screen writer Mike Binder, adapting a tale out of his own
family's mythology, and director Joe Roth, keeping the
retelling simple but not too sweet. True to its original
material, Coupe de Ville retains the air of a beloved anecdote
polished by many spinnings around a family table.
</p>
<p> As of 1963, the three Libner lads have not spoken for what
they indifferently estimate as three to five years, all being
sure they have nothing but genes in common. The eldest, Marvin
(Daniel Stern), is an officious straight arrow. The youngest,
Bobby (Patrick Dempsey), is a juvenile delinquent manque. The
middle brother, Buddy (Arye Gross), naturally keeps trying to
mediate fraternal fractiousness. None can imagine why their
father Fred (Alan Arkin) insists that they all are needed to
perform a single task: pick up a perfectly preserved 1954
Cadillac convertible in Detroit and deliver it (despite speed
traps, accidents and fights for control of its radio dial) to
him in Florida unscathed and on time for their mother's
birthday. But Fred unconsciously knows what movie story tellers
have always known: if you force a disparate group of males
together for a journey, they will, as they surmount its
obstacles, achieve what Fred's sons lack--true brotherhood.
</p>
</body>
</article>
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