This is still another coming of age film, but it goes terribly awry.
Was this the only film that husband-wife Rip Torn and Geraldine Page ever worked in together? Nice to see that Page chose a comedy vehicle in her long career as a neurotic basket-case. Here, she is an over protective mother, who doesn't realize what her husband Torn is up to. I think this played real to their own personal lives.
What a difference a year makes. The year before Elizabeth Hartman was up for best actress as the blind girl victimized by her Oscar-winning mother Shelley Winters. This time around she is a go-go dancer who Pete Kastner, the very definition of a nerd, falls for; while at the same time,meeting his true-love- a girl from elementary school. Michael Dunn, so memorable in his supporting role nomination of "Ship of Fools," briefly appears here as the dwarf working in Hartman's nightclub. He is wasted here.
The film briefly shows urban bigotry with the nauseating writing in the subway station regarding a minority.
Was this the only film that husband-wife Rip Torn and Geraldine Page ever worked in together? Nice to see that Page chose a comedy vehicle in her long career as a neurotic basket-case. Here, she is an over protective mother, who doesn't realize what her husband Torn is up to. I think this played real to their own personal lives.
What a difference a year makes. The year before Elizabeth Hartman was up for best actress as the blind girl victimized by her Oscar-winning mother Shelley Winters. This time around she is a go-go dancer who Pete Kastner, the very definition of a nerd, falls for; while at the same time,meeting his true-love- a girl from elementary school. Michael Dunn, so memorable in his supporting role nomination of "Ship of Fools," briefly appears here as the dwarf working in Hartman's nightclub. He is wasted here.
The film briefly shows urban bigotry with the nauseating writing in the subway station regarding a minority.