By Jonathan Price
It opens with the unclogging of a toilet and ends with a young man furiously chopping wood. Two seemingly quotidian chores that try to express more, and are yet appealing, understandable, resonant. The Return of the Secaucus 7 (1980, directed by John Sayles) suggests a sequel to a film we’ve never seen, but is actually best understand as a poor man’s answer to The Big Chill (1983, directed by Lawrence Kasdan).
