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That‘s not to say that the stars of Making Love â€" Kate Jackson, Canadianâ€"born Michael Ontkean and Harry Hamlin â€" don‘t play their parts well enough. It‘s just that their characters always seem rather synthetic, and their problems just too isolated from the rest of the world The characters introduce themseives and explain their relationships with one another in direct addresses to the audience, as though the latter were their psychiatrists. (This stylized technique, while initially effective, gradually becomes contrived and artificial and uiltimately disrupts the dramatic flow of the story. Both in Barry Sandler‘s screenplay â€" apparentâ€" ly drawn to some degree from his own personal experiences â€" and especially in the direction by Canadianâ€"native Arthur Hiller, the three main characters come across too much like TVâ€"comâ€" mercial types instead of like realâ€"life individuals with whom the majority of viewers can personâ€" ally identify and perhaps even empathize. (An hourâ€"long drama on CBCâ€"TV last year. entitled Running Man, dealt with the same basic subject of a marriage breakup due to the man‘s coming to terms with his longâ€"repressed homoâ€" sexuality, but presented it in a much more realistic context, both emotionally and socially.) For example, both men‘s homosexuality is inferred to be the resuit of unhappy relationships with their fathers, while the gay life is depicted as one of predominant promiscuity. In fact. the husband (Ontkean) is distinctive primarily beâ€" cause of his desire for a "lasting" relationship, which, in the context of this movie, seems more the result of his heterosexual heritage than The homosexual aspect in Making Love also frequently seems laden with cliches and some pretty stereotype images. despite the prevalent tone of understanding and acceptance the movie would appear to be promoting. The plot starts off with husband and wife â€" he‘s a successful doctor and she‘s an equally success ful television executive â€" in their eighth year of apparent wedded biiss. Soon, however, he finds himself giving in to his longâ€"latent homosexuality and initiating a somewhat chaotic affair with a successful gay novelist. The picture has received much attention because of its subject matter, a triangular romantic relationship in which a woman loses her huéband to another man. But played out for the most part in soap opera fashion, as is the case in Making Love, the story somehow never develops into anything as compeiling or as controversial as the premise itself might suggest. By Victor Stanton Making Love is a title which immediately raises expectations of something sensitive, sen sual and perhaps even a little provocative. The movie, Making Love, provides, however, something less than expected in all those areas. 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The picture‘s greatest assets are its performâ€" ers, many of them Canadians, who fill the sereen with such energy and credibility that the viewer is thoroughly drawn into the action. . Winners of bestâ€"actor and bestâ€"supportingâ€" actor Genies respectively, Nick Mancuso and Saul Rubinek are both outstanding. Mancuso portrays the teacher, shaken from his own macho selfâ€"image into becoming@"t zombieâ€"like follower of the cult doctrine. Rubinek plays his Toronto friend who sets up a rescue mission to free him from what is virtual imprisonment. So compelling is this movie that once seen it won‘t be easily forgotten +o. )v Set primarily in San Francisco, the movie relates the experiences of a Toronto school teacher lured into a religious cult obviously patterned after the Moonies. Whether it is truly the best "Canadian" movie of the year, as it was acclaimed at the recent Genie (Canadian Film) Awards, may be deservâ€" ing of some debate. (One, for instance, would like the opportunity to view the principal version of Les Pilouffe, which otherwise dominated the awards.) In a year in which Canadian filmâ€"makers produced the likes of Scanners and Gas, a movie of the calibre of Ticket To Heaven definitely deserves to win awards. Certainly, Ticket to Heaven is a picture of commendable quality both in it$s storyâ€"telling power and in basic filmâ€"making craftsmanship. Scenes of the men physicaily embracing tend to have a more studied than erotic quality to them. Doubtlessly, the very inclusion of such scenes give the picture some sensationalistic clout, but the scenes themselves hardly qualify as a dramatic breakthrough in mainstream movies. Making Love is really at heart an oldâ€"fashioned romantic melodrama, made blatantly obvious by the inclusion of scenes from old Hollywood pictures. Had it contained the traditional trianâ€" gle, it probably would have been dismissed as corny and passe. 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