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| Columbia Pictures | Release Date: June 19, 1987 |
Starring:
Damon Wayans, Daryl Hannah, Fred Willard, John Kapelos, Max Alexander, Michael J. Pollard, Rick Rossovich, Shelley Duvall, Steve Martin, Steve Mittleman
Summary:
An adaptation of "Cyrano de Bergerac", starring a big-hearted, and big-nosed fire chief (Steve Martin) who falls in love with a beautiful astronomer (Daryl Hannah).
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Roxanne is the most unabashed, and most satisfying, romantic movie to come along in years. It's a swooning, delicate, heart-on-its-sleeve work. And so fulsome is its tenderness and naivete' that it requires a leap of imagination from the viewer to get on its wavelength. Few recent movies, though, reward the stretch as this one does.
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A pleasant surprise. It's a gentle, unforced adult comedy that capitalizes on situations rather than gags. [19 June 1987, p.1D]
Martin, who wrote the pretty-funny, too-soppy script, means to drink from the river this time. He wants it all: laughs, tears, low comedy, uplift. It doesn't quite happen, partly because the movie begs for poignance like an orphaned puppy, partly because modern plastic surgery makes the plot anachronistic, partly because, even with his Cyranose, C.D. is a darned sight more attractive than his beefy rival. Aaaahh, who cares, as long as Steve Martin gets a chance to strut his physical grace, wrap his mouth around clever dialogue, clamber up to rooftops like a Tarzan of the Northwest, give new life to the old-fashioned nobility of the love letter, and drink wine through his nose?
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It takes a party pooper to point out that it's not very
good. But this is one party that people familiar with the play -
especially people familiar with Heath Lambert's memorable performance in
the title role - would do well to pass up: every addition to the original
results in subtraction. [19 June 1987]
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