What’s Aged the Worst?
Length, student-romance plot, marital behavior, dismissive treatment of deaf son and Dreyfuss’s later career.
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- 143minutes too long;117–118minutes ideal.
- Bus station plot:parents absent,midnight Portland–New York trip,leave before graduation and uncomfortable prolonged side-mouth kiss;teacher-support rewrite proposed.
- Naming composition Rowena and lying Greek goddess then inviting wife to program implausibly careless potential adulterer behavior.
- All-black cast remote-button fantasy,Danny Glover/Angela Bassett confrontation;era marital power imbalance considered but personal flaws emphasized.
- Anti-sign-language stance and dismissing deaf son understanding Lennon death brutal.
- Dreyfuss post-opus career decline despite age49 and nomination;W and Krippendorfs Tribe exceptions discussed.