Cinema: Love for Sale

It can be a many-splendored thing. Optimists insist that it's sweeping the country. According to the Beatles, it's "all you need." Two new movies, however, give love such a mauling that it emerges bruised and battered, in an all but unrecognizable state.

The Love Bug is the Walt Disney organization's whimsical tribute to the Volkswagen. The little thing gets a crush on a down-and-out racing driver (Dean Jones) and follows him home. Jones spurns the smitten vehicle until he discovers that it has a mind of its own. The bug, it seems, is just...

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