(out of 4) "The children of a couple who were executed for espionage (patterned after the Rosenbergs) struggle with their past in the dissident 1960s. So-so adaptation of E. L. Doctorow's 'The Book of Daniel.'"--VideoHound's Golden Movie Retriever Rated R 130m DIR: Sidney Lumet. CAST: Timothy Hutton, Amanda Plummer, Mandy Patinkin, Lindsay Crouse, Ed Asner, Ellen Barkin, John Rubinstein. 1983 "Everything works in this uncompromising film. Doctorow provided an extraordinarily multi-layered screenplay. Timothy Hutton (who later starred with Nick Nolte and Armand Assante in Lumet's very good cop thriller "Q & A"), Edward Asner, Lindsay Crouse, Mandy Patinkin, Ilan M. Mitchell-Smith (who plays the young Daniel in the early 1950s) and Amanda Plummer stand out in a good cast." --IMDB Review " Mandy Patinkin, as her husband, is equally good but less surprising: his role is less of a reach for him, and he has been impressive before. As the affectionate, impulsive, humorous, apostolic father Patinkin fills the screen. " --Net Review