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The founding fathers were "the most remarkable group of men in history--sensible, broad-minded, courageous, usually well-educated, gifted in a variety of ways, mature, and long-sighted, sometimes lit by flashes of genius."
The paper declared, "A smile costs nothing, but it brightens up the moment for the one who flashes it, and the one who watches.
But some find the bleakness compelling and praise the dialogue and flashes of black humor.
No, I mean all my thoughts, the flashes of what's going through my life, the whole family history ...
This is my least favorite of the Hughes films, because it's a moral lesson with flashes of humor.