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Limbo was one of Hollywood's first big-studio films to concentrate on how Vietnam affected the families of the combatants. Kathleen Nolan, Kate Jackson and Katherine Justice play three service wives living at a Florida Air Force Base. Their husbands have all been called to active duty in Vietnam, and all have either been captured or are MIAs. Avoiding the propagandistic stance of most war films of its period (and of such World War II films as Tender Comrade), Limbo manages to accurately convey the churned-up emotions of women who love their husbands and their country, but do not love what husbands are expected to do on behalf of that country. Before it is overwhelmed by soap opera suds, the film (scripted by Joan Micklin Silver and James Bridges, both on the verge of bigger things) makes several cogent points about personal relationships in the face of national crisis. Limbo has ... been released as Chained to Yesterday and Women in Limbo.
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Limbo, in some Christian theologies, is the place between heaven and hell, a permanent state of suspension. Sayles' "Limbo" begins as an emotional metaphor and winds up as a very real state between life and death. As the film starts, its brokenhearted, small-town Alaskan characters are getting older and further removed from the pasts that haunt them, but they're unable to move forward into any kind of satisfying future. They are, they believe, stranded. Fate, of course, intervenes to show them what stranded really looks like.
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Limbo begins as a tentative love story between just the sort of characters you'd expect to find in a naturally inhospitable backwater -- resilient people with dubious pasts. David Strathairn, a veteran of several Sayles movies, brings his low-keyed and somewhat bruised charm to the role of Joe Gastineau, a former fisherman who gave up his trade when a boating accident led to the death of two people. Joe becomes involved -- slowly, after much well-written Saylesian banter -- with a lounge singer named Donna De Angelo (Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio), who shares both Joe's world-weariness and his essential decency. Donna has a troubled young teen-age daughter (Vanessa Martinez), a sensitive type who has withdrawn into a cocoon of self-loathing.
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In Limbo, Mastrantonio plays Donna, a club singer whose career is as unsuccessful as her romances with men and her relationship with Noelle, her daughter. Donna's nomadic tour has taken her and Noelle to Juneau, Alaska, for a set of gigs in the local taverns. While performing at a wedding, the flighty dysfunctional singer announces to the guests that she's breaking up with her latest romance, the accordionist, and trounces offstage after finishing her last number. For the first third of the movie Mastrantonio creases and crinkles her faces to uncomfortably unpleasant result; when she does that, she's as unpleasant off the stage as Jennifer Jason Leigh was onstage in Georgia, and I worry her face will freeze that way.
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Limbo is traditionally ruled by a Supreme Sorcerer, either a demonic native or an entity from another universe, often Earth's. Limbo's appearance and physical laws are highly variable, and determined by the power and personal taste of its ruler. It can take the form of an otherworldly paradise, or a rocky, sulfurous perdition. The demons of Limbo traditionally display an attitude of slavish loyalty to its sovereign, and act as his or her servants. They will even assume forms mandated by the sorcerer if he or she is sufficiently powerful. However, the longer Limbo's ruler spends away from the dimension, the weaker that individual's mystical thrall over it becomes, and the more autonomously the demons begin to act.
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Limbo of the Lost is aimed at players who yearn to play the traditional point & click adventure games of old. Utilizing a full mouse driven interface with incredible visuals and devious puzzles, this is the adventure you have been waiting for.
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