THE HOUSE ON SYCAMORE STREET (1992) ** George Hamilton is brilliant as a banker entirely taken with everything about himself, and most particularly his humility. It's difficult to even imagine a film that wouldn't benefit from his inclusion. Egocentrism, in the right face, can be elevated to a beneficent art form, one that endows blessings of entertainment and joy upon all the witnesses (it becomes what it thought it was in the first place), and George is at the forefront of the practitioners of such a thing. Other than that, it's a movie about Dick Van Dyke's dashing doctor detective, so it didn't really need to outsource for the charm offensive anyway. More happy and reassuring nonsense about people killing people and illness and greed, served up in a manner to evoke nothing but warmth and relief. Talk about presentation!
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