Watched Speechless, the romantic comedy starring Michael Keaton and Geena Davis as two political speech writers who hook up during a campaign - initially not knowing that they are working for the opposite sides.
It's pretty good, for a romantic comedy. I saw it when it came out, which was about 1990, but hadn't seen it since.
It might be Christopher Reeves last walking role, as he plays Davis's one time fiancee who's a hot shot foreign correspondent come to win her back.
Also watched The Prize, which is a Paul Newman movie, in which he plays the Nobel Prize for literature winner. It's set in Stockholm with the plot line that the Soviets want to kidnap one of the other winners, who had been working in the USA, so they can get him to work for them.
Newman is a bit of a buffoon - a reputation for being a drunken womanizer, who's stumbling about and isn't believed by the authorities when he begins to see that things are not right in Sweden. Also, he complains of not selling enough books, and supporting himself by writing detective novels under a pseudonym.
It's an entertaining enough film, but another example of how different films are made then versus now in terms of the camera shots and all that.
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