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Calling the script "dreadfully predictable" and a "cliché-hugging melodrama" (Jack Mathews, Newsday ), critics complain that it lacks the fun of two other recent dance movie successes, Shall We Dance?
Holland has expunged much of the melodrama that marked the war-horse dramatization The Heiress (made into a 1949 film with Olivia de Havilland, directed by William Wyler), and has even corrected a problem that irked James, years after publication, when he reread his early novel and declined to revise it for reprinting: that Morris Townsend, Catherine's fortune-hunting suitor, was too much of a one-dimensional lout.
Dunne's gift for melodrama and exaggeration, says The New Yorker 's Jeffrey Toobin, makes him the "perfect chronicler for the case."
Most critics agree the film is heavy on melodrama, and the father's character is implausibly overbearing.
"Certain features of Huxley's imagined universe--set six centuries into the future--would in fact become realities within a few decades" (Dorothy Rabinowitz, the Wall Street Journal ). Dissenting, New York 's John Leonard says the show gratuitously injects a happy ending and melodrama: "Huxley has been networked."