Movies
October, 1987
The unforced screwball pleasures of Nadine (Tri-Star) are a treat in this era of slam-bam-pow comedies that grab you by the shirt front and give a hard shake to let you know what's funny. Writer-director Robert Benton knows the gentle and not-so-gentle folk of Texas (Places in the Heart was his last dig into those cultural roots). His feel for the place and the people warms up every frame of Nadine, with Kim Basinger as a vulnerable, skittish Austin beautician who gets involved with rattlesnakes...
