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Jonah is a folk singer. He was very big in the 1960s, an anti-war rallying point. He wrote one of the anthems for that decade. But the sixties are long ago, he's middle-aged and out of date. He writes his own songs, travels the country with a small band, while his wife--who loves him--contemplates a divorce. When does a man like Jonah stop being a brave individualist and become merely a middle-aged man hanging onto an obsolete self-image? His wife,...
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"Arthur Parker says, 'I want to live in a world where the songs come true.' In that world, bank tellers would eagerly hand out sacks of Depression-era dough to him, every cloud would have a silver lining, and Arthur's loveless marriage to Joan would give way to boop-boop-a-doop bliss with passionate Eileen. [A] razzle-dazzler in which lip-synched 1930s songs contrast with characters' lives, Herbert Ross directs Dennis Potter's movie adaptation of...
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