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Actors: Tom Hanks, Jackie Gleason
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| Review Summary and Plot Commentary about Nothing in Common |
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Young and successful David Basner is an advertising executive whose life is in the right place. Women, power, countless of money and a great career to top it off. However things slow down when his ailing father Max gives David the sad news that his wife is divorcing him after 35 years on marriage.
Throughout the years prior to their seperation, Max has grown to be a very bitter and angry man that once full of life and quite the charmer. His negative attitude had a ongoing effect on David's mother Lorraine who finally walks out of the marriage and their home from a loveless marriage and seek a job of her own for the first time since she married Max.
David's own life is put on hold so he patch up the relationship between his father- who needs to learn that life itself is about happiness and self-content whereas his mother needs the emotional support and strength from her son and even moreso from her estranged husband. But to add on an already burden, David has the chance of a lifetime to make partner if he make a deal to a airline for his firm. In the middle of focusing on his job, David takes a close look and learn some things about his parents, his childhood and reevaluate his own life and the decisions he is making.
--Alicia M., Resident Scholar
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| Analysis of Nothing in Common |
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Plot
Time/era of movie:
- 1980's-1999
Family, struggling with
Yes
Struggle with:
- Father
Inner struggle or disability
Yes
Struggle with
- learns to be more sensitive
Main Character
Identity:
- Male
Profession/status:
- business executive
Age:
- 20's-30's
Is this an ordinary person caught up in events?
Yes
Hair color?
- brunette (Brown)
Hair type
- (man) short/standard curly
Body type
- (man) average
Events of movie makes character more...
- caring
Ethnicity/Nationality
- White (American)
How sensitive is this character?
- middling sensitive to others' feelings
Sense of humor?
- Strong but gentle sense of humor
Secondary Main Character
Identity:
- Female
Hair color
- blonde
Hair style
- (woman) medium/shoulderlgn straight
Body type
- (woman) average
How much in movie?
- 60%
Ethnicity/Nationality
- White (American)
Main Adversary
Identity:
- Male
Age:
- 60's-90's
Profession/status:
- small businessman
How much of work is main antagonist actually present in:
- 60%
Hair color
- brunette (Black)
Hair type
- (man) short/standard straight
Body type
- (man) fat
Ethnicity/Nationality
- White (American)
How sensitive is this character?
- mean, arrogant
Sense of humor
- Strong but gentle sense of humor
Setting
United States
Yes
The US:
- Midwest
City?
Yes
City:
- Chicago
Style
Accounts of torture and death?
- no torture/death
Movie makes you feel...
- all mixed up
Sex/nudity in movie?
Yes
What kind of sex:
- vague references only
- kissing
- seeing nude female butt
Any profanity?
- Some foul language
If soundtrack VERY NOTICEABLE...
- Classic/oldies rock
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