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Title: Whites lines
Review: Stripped of the author's light, spicy prose, and left with just the thin story and some arch dialogue, Jay McInerney's go-go 80's New York novelette falls flat.Michael J. Fox is earnest but miscast as an irresponsible fact-checker for a version of The New Yorker, and director James Bridges tackled coked-up yuppie disillusion with infinitely more heft in his film "Mike's Murder" four years earlier."Lights" has aged better than "St. Elmo's Fire" or "About Last Night..." But it's worth noting Fox's character decides to stop having fun in the film's last scene, a half-assed happy ending in which the protagonist gazes optimistically at the World Trade Center towers in the distance.
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