I have been obsessed with. T. R. Baskin (which is the name I know this movie under) since I saw it as a midday movie when I was a kid. I know it wasn't well reviewed on its release, being one of the occasions when even the great Pauline Kael got it grievously wrong (see also The Accidental Tourist, to name but one other example). Anyway, Candice Bergen is fantastic, going from cool as a cucumber to vulnerable in a completely believable way, plus making a fine fist of the script's many, many zingers. James Caan is also excellent, and Peter Boyle is wonderful - funny and touching, in a memorable performance. This is yet another movie that has subtleties that seem to be beyond even a lot of intelligent people and, in my experience, once seen, it is never forgotten. I would give anything to know what happened to TR - my guess is she either became a valium-addicted housewife because she ended up, in desperation, marrying some idiot; or she became an acclaimed author, whose life got better with every passing decade.
Review of T.R. Baskin
