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Article: `Quilt': Full Of Fluff
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- The Washington Post
- Article date:
- October 6, 1995
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THERE IS A certain luxuriantly guilty pleasure to be had from a
really extravagant junk food binge -- demolishing a handful of Godiva
truffles instead of M&Ms, for example -- and there are certain movies
that have a classy facade but whose plot and script are, at heart,
embarrassingly hackneyed.
These films must either have some serendipitous saving grace, like
the black humor that saved "Harold and Maude" from its own reverse
May-December cliche; or the cast must display an almost shameless
melodramatic abandon, its own extravagant indulgence. And that's
pretty much what rescues "How to Make an American Quilt" --
theatrical indulgence by a cast of stahs.
Not since "The Women" has a movie ...