Movies

November, 1987

Albert Finney, Matthew Modine and Kevin Anderson--Anderson repeating the stage role he originated for Chicago's Steppenwolf Theater Company--score a triple tour de force in Orphans (Lorimar). Producer-director Alan J. Pakula doesn't try to conceal the theatrics of Lyle Kessler's hit play, nor does he ask his three flashy actors to curb their virtuosity. Finney's the kingpin as a Chicago gangster who allows himself to be abducted and held in a ramshackle house in New Jersey by two weird brothers-...