Cinema: Rushes: Mar. 7, 1983

TABLE FOR FIVE

It is only March, but already there is a leading candidate for 1983's Six Weeks award: a brass teardrop given to the most maudlin picture of the year. But then, Table for Five perhaps has an unfair advantage. It was written by David Seltzer, who did the script for Six Weeks, and it stars Jon Voight, who loves to cry and apparently wants everyone else to join him in a grand boohoo. He plays a divorced father who takes his three children, after years of neglecting them, on a Mediterranean cruise and, en route, learns that his ex-wife has...

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