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NYONE KNOW ANYTHING ABOUT THIS MOVIE?
shareStarred Michael Gothard. What did you want to know?
shareheheh, i know that, been a gothard fan. I just wanted to know if anybody had seen it, what they knew about gothards performance and even if cheris lemmon was any good, only solid thing i have heard of this film, is that its meant to be rubbish, but still id like to make up my own mind, if i cud get hold of it
shareHi again,
I bought this about 2 years again & watched it once. Really I should view it again but my video has gone belly up.
Perhaps that I only watched it once should tell you. It was painful to watch. I wonder how 3 actors like Simmons, Lemmon & Gothard got involved with it. A bad director, actors of their experience, should have been able to overcome, I can only think the basic script was rubbish. Disjointed, incoherant and certainly not the mad-cap adventure it says on the box. Almost surreal in it's bizzareness. But none of the attention grabbing surrealism of The Devils.
The only scene I partiularly remember, is of Gothard doing his fast car driving thing, ( Screamer and Stopover ), they start singing in the back and he starts too!!!.
I can't say his performance was bad, just he had nothing to work with, none of them did.
I don't think Gothard had a particularly large amount of time in the film, purely a personal view but I don't think he was particularly comfortable with it, compared with say the latter episodes of Arthur or La Vallee which he seems to fit.
I collect Gothard films, if I had to lose one -which I wouldn't like - it would be this one.
Try Amazon zshops or eBay, there are still copies about,but there are FAR better Gothard films.
the yellow pages I have (the dvd cover shown on imdb) is not the one described here on imdb, the one i have is an independent movie starring sam taft and has none of the cast that are listed here.
“Do not fear death... only the unlived life.” - Natalie Babbitt
This film has never been on DVD, but its readily available on VHS.
Honestly I hated it. I bought a copy based solely on the fact that I am a fan of Chris Lemmon and Lea Thompson. I had wondered why I had never heard of it and now I know why. If you want to see it, get it used for a buck.
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A buck is exactly what I paid for it on VHS, but I rather liked it.
The plot is a bit of a mess and the direction is rather haphazard, but I thought Chris Lemmon and Lea Thompson worked well together, and it's always a treat to see Jean Simmons. Any film that can maintain my attention for 89 minutes is worthwhile. It's not a great movie, but an entertaining one in my opinion. 6/10 stars from me.