"Stretching" exercise for Don Johnson and Melanie Griffith, husband and wife off screen. As an on-screen husband and wife split apart by the death of a son, they both play "down," play pianissimo, but they both seem pretty sure the camera will love them just the same. The story -- centered really on the summer-vacationing child (Elijah Wood) who brings the adults back together -- comes from Le Grand Chemin, an unexceptional specimen of the French coming-of-age genre. Mary Agnes Donoghue, writer and director, has Americanized it (a little) and modernized it (still less), without much helping or hurting it. (It does seem odd that a father would have built a remote-control Spitfire for a son only three years old.) The movie's title is the name of the fishing port where it's set; Dullsville would have been truer. (1991) — Duncan Shepherd
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