Thursday, April 19,1534
Pago 6
Daily Nebraskan
'Swing Shift ' offers some fun
but falls short on satisfaction
Review by Jeff Goodwin
Swing Shijt, Goldie 1 1 awn's newest
film, has something for everybody. As
Donnie and Marie would say, it's cot a
little comedy, a little drama, a little
romance.
That, "ultimately, is the film's main
problem. There's a little bit of every
thing but not enough of anything to
satisfy. At times the film looks promis
ing, but the good moments seem to
come in spurts and things never come
together.
Hawn plays Kay Walsh, a devoted
housewife who is left in the lurch when
her hubby (Ed Harris) joins the Navy
after Pearl Harbor is bombed.
Kay decides she doesn't want to
spend the war dusting and doing the
laundry so she gets a job at a local
aircraft factory to help the war effort.
There she meets Lucky Lockhart
(Kurt Russell), an aspiring musician
who immediately takes a shine to her.
Lucky invites her down to a local club
to watch him blow his horn and, after,
much hesitation, she accepts.
Well, to make a long story short
(something the makers of this film
were unable to do) Lucky and Kay
have a roll in the hay.
Of course, this is during the war, so
they have to be discreet about it. To
throw Kay's neighbors off the scent,
they enlist the help of Kay's friend,
Hazel. To the outside world, it looks as
though Hazel and Lucky are having an
affair. But we, from our aisle seat in the
fourth row, know better.
Everything is peachy until hubby
Jack, on leave, comes home unexpect
edly and figures out what has been
going on all these months while he has
been keeping the world free for demo
cracy. This screws things up for the rest of
our friends and relationships go flying
around the screen like a runaway fruit
bat.
This threatens the harmony of our
world for a while but, just as the war
ends nicely, so too does our little story.
It's not that the ending is far-fetched.
It's pretty logical, in fact. It just
would have been nice for once if things
hadn't worked out and Jack had called
Kay a tramp and kicked her out of the
house and she had gone to Vegas and
become a hooker and then the girl
friend of Bugsy Siegel.
But that's not the way it works in
Hollywood.
Hawn and Russell do a nice enough
job with what they've got to work with.
The problem is they just don't have
much to go with here.
It looks as if Rob Morton, the screen
writer, threw a lot of situations into a
hat and pulled out his plot. This, more
than anything else, is the film's down
fall Suing Shift currently is showing at
the Cinema 1 & 2, 201 N. 13th St.
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