Movies
January, 1988
The problem in any fair appraisal of Gaby—A True Story (Tri-Star) is describing this unique and unforgettable film experience without making moviegoers run the other way. While director Luis Mandoki's subject is Gabriela Brimmer, a successful author and lifelong victim of cerebral palsy, now 40ish and living in Mexico, Gaby is no disease-of-the-week TV tearjerker. Liv Ullmann and Robert Loggia, both excellent as the heroine's Jewish-immigrant parents, are ultimately overshadowed by Argentine act...
