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- From: isbell@ai.mit.edu (Charles L Isbell)
- Newsgroups: rec.arts.movies
- Subject: Re: TOYS
- Message-ID: <ISBELL.92Dec22091719@pop-tarts.ai.mit.edu>
- Date: 22 Dec 92 17:17:19 GMT
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- In-reply-to: jmann@vineland.pubs.stratus.com's message of 21 Dec 92 14:43:27 GMT
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- jmann@vineland.pubs.stratus.com (Jim Mann) writes:
- |> Williams played the quietly manic son of a recently-dead toy
- |manufacturer whose
- |> inheritence is passed on to his uncle. Joan Cusack played his
- |sister and Robin
- |> Wright played the woman he gets interested in. I don't remember
- |the name of
- |> the actors who played the uncle or Cousin Patrick. I think the
- |actor who
- |> played Patrick was acting in his first movie, and he played his
- |role so
- |> straight that he provided a perfect foil for Williams and Cusack.
- |>
-
- |Patrick was brilliant. As you say, he was the perfect foil for
- |Williams.
-
- Was this LL Cool J? I recall that he was going to play Williams'
- character's cousin.
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