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The Lotus Eaters

1993, Movie, PG-13, 101 mins

The Lotus Eaters: Review

Many of the classic screwball comedies of the 1930s and '40s poked fun at the foibles of wealthy bluebloods. THE LOTUS EATERS, like Capra's YOU CAN'T TAKE IT WITH YOU, follows the plight of a zany working-class brood. Intended as a sweet, lollipop-flavored, coming-of-age tale, the film's straining for the liberating effects of wild and crazy personal expression leaves a sour after-taste. In a Canadian boondocks in 1964, high school principal Hal Kingswood (R.H. Thomson) and... read more leave a comment