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Ken, do you own the blu-ray as well? I can't remember now if you bought it when it was new?

Great review, Mychal! I seriously love this movie; they really don't make adult comedies like this anymore. I got the blu-ray last week and it does, indeed, look stunning. I wasn't expecting it to look as good as it does. As you mentioned, great performances all around (the stars are...

Oh, yes!! (I didn't mean to leave that part out!!)

His exact quote was even worse than that. Mank quotes him as saying, "It was shambles, it really was. It was simply ridiculous." For her part, Myrna is quoted (again by Mank) as telling the powers that be, ""I can't do this! I've done a lot of terrible things in film, but this girl's a...

Thanks for another stellar review, Matt! I can't wait to own this one!

I think it kind of IS a bad film, but one that I've always had a soft spot for, too. It takes me right back to the summer of 1987 when I was 20 (and it was a GREAT summer!) I've always enjoyed it (plus I've forgiven Madonna for a lot worse than this!)

I apologize, Mark. Comedies of remarriage HAVE come to be included as a subgenre in the modern umbrella definition of "screwball" so I misunderstood your comments as including them as well.

Well, screwball comedy, like its namesake the screwball pitch, has traditionally been defined as a farce that spins in an unexpected way. The screwball comedy parodies traditional romantic comedies and usually casts the female protagonist as the aggressor, satirizes class (almost always at the...

I've seen all of these movies listed examples online of "screwball comedies" and The Awful Truth is the only one that comes close, in my opinion, to having any of the hallmarks. I think the definition of screwball comedy has been given a large dose of revisionism to include any romantic comedy...

Is it actually a screwball comedy, though? What about the movie qualifies it as one?

Throw Three Days of the Condor into the mix and you've got yourself a deal, Walter! :)

I was thinking the EXACT same thing!

I can't tell if you're being serious or not (?) but she explains that her name is really Dawn and that she transposed the letters to make it more memorable. The character is a satirical portrayal of a not-too-bright starlet and it makes perfect sense. It's actually a funny joke when you stop to...

The delicious quotes are endless! The line I posted isn't actually in the movie. It was from the one joke Brooks thought was too dirty to keep and that he cut himself!

"I hate to disillusion you, ma'am..."

It was an (old) April Fool's joke: http://www.dvdbeaver.com/tt/Beavers_initial_Blu-ray_line.htm

You just reminded me and now I could kick myself for leaving Bachelor in Paradise (1961) off my list! It's a perfect time capsule of the mid-century American suburban dream with a catalogue of middle-class pleasures, including drive-in restaurants, gleaming new supermarkets, bowling alleys...

Oh, wow, what a fun idea! Some of my picks would be: The Black Camel (1931) Early Charlie Chan mystery set on, and filmed in, 1931 Hawaii with gorgeous shots of a pre-skyscraper Waikiki Beach and actually filmed, in part, in the lobby and public areas of the then five-year-old Royal Hawaiian...

I think it would have worked, too. No one was on more of a hot streak than Travolta in 1978-79 and I hope Gere sent him flowers, at least!

"Jasper LaMar Crabbe?!? I THINK I would have remembered!"

Some very astute observations all throughout your post, Jim, thanks! It has to be said that the casting director deserves some kind of a medal for casting the women in Julian's life against expectations. Not only do we get the marvelous K Callan and Carole Cook but, in somewhat smaller roles...

You're not wrong. Schrader uses the old DeMille trick of wallowing in "sin" and "decadence" throughout a good portion of the runtime but then makes it all "okay" by disavowing those same vices at the end. Schrader is letting the audience have its cake and eat it, too but we don't have to feel...

Same about "R" rated movies for me. I was 12 when American Gigilo came out and barely 13 for Blue Lagoon, but I was very aware that I was on the periphery of something B-I-G. Even though I wasn't allowed to see them, I knew someday I would and I just had to wait it out, lol. Not to go off on...

Frame advance makes it longer (just sayin') :cool:

That's so strange because usually we are in agreement more often than not, but I actually like it!

I really enjoyed Summer of 85' as well. Benjamin "David" Voison can also be seen playing sweet, sympathetic rent boy Jean (a very revealing performance) in Rupert Everett's The Happy Prince, his 'labor of love' that picks up where Wilde leaves off. A glimpse of Oscar Wilde's life in France...

It's still a comedy through and through, but did represent a radical departure from his norm. It was strictly an adult comedy (remember those?) and doubt it would have really appealed to you in 1979 (I was 12 and I had NO interest in it until years later) It's also famous for being Candice...

It never gets old.....

IT'S ABOUT TIME!!!! WooHoooooooo!

I am still positively flummoxed by this one. I usually detest movies like this (if you know, you know, is all I can say) and, by all accounts, this should not have remotely worked as well as it did. Yet there I was (and there I remain) devastated and bawling like a baby over it. I don't get...