Since hearing about her role in Lord Love a Duck,I've been interested in seeing a Comedy with Tuesday Weld. Checking for updates on Netflix UK,I found that a satirical Comedy starring Weld was about to get removed,which led to me opening the pack of this serial film.
The plot:
Seeing the Free Love revolution of the hippies drown the ways of his old life out, Harvey Holroyd tries to cling on to everything he has known about life. Ignoring the warnings from her husband Harvey, Kate jumps into all the New Age and Free Love on offer. Whilst trying to accept Kate's choices,Harvey starts to fear that his family is falling apart,when his daughter Joanie goes to join a cult.
View on the film:
Driving in with a fake US accent (that barely hides his distinctive tone) Christopher Lee gives a smashing performance as Luckman Skull,whose brash Wall Street image is merrily chipped away by Lee. Completely out of his depth, Martin Mull gives a very funny performance as Harvey,who is given a gleeful desperation by Mull of trying to grasp at the straws of the unfolding sexual revolution. Delving into all the indulgence offered in the era, Tuesday Weld gives a sparkling performance as Kate,via Weld giving Kate a hilarious deadpan manner in trying to give strange events (such as joining a cult) a normalisation.
Descending from the sky over Folk music credits,director Bill Persky & cinematographer Rexford L. Metz chain a Flower Power turned sour atmosphere,lining the walls with floral patterns that wash up on the clothes of the Holroyd's. Deflowering Cyra McFadden's novel,the screenplay by Rich Eustis and Michael Elias pulls the peace-loving hippy world with a deliciously dark wit. Making the movie more satirical rather than character based,the writers craft a sharp absurdist piece ripping at all the gooey goodness of Free Love and the New Age.
The plot:
Seeing the Free Love revolution of the hippies drown the ways of his old life out, Harvey Holroyd tries to cling on to everything he has known about life. Ignoring the warnings from her husband Harvey, Kate jumps into all the New Age and Free Love on offer. Whilst trying to accept Kate's choices,Harvey starts to fear that his family is falling apart,when his daughter Joanie goes to join a cult.
View on the film:
Driving in with a fake US accent (that barely hides his distinctive tone) Christopher Lee gives a smashing performance as Luckman Skull,whose brash Wall Street image is merrily chipped away by Lee. Completely out of his depth, Martin Mull gives a very funny performance as Harvey,who is given a gleeful desperation by Mull of trying to grasp at the straws of the unfolding sexual revolution. Delving into all the indulgence offered in the era, Tuesday Weld gives a sparkling performance as Kate,via Weld giving Kate a hilarious deadpan manner in trying to give strange events (such as joining a cult) a normalisation.
Descending from the sky over Folk music credits,director Bill Persky & cinematographer Rexford L. Metz chain a Flower Power turned sour atmosphere,lining the walls with floral patterns that wash up on the clothes of the Holroyd's. Deflowering Cyra McFadden's novel,the screenplay by Rich Eustis and Michael Elias pulls the peace-loving hippy world with a deliciously dark wit. Making the movie more satirical rather than character based,the writers craft a sharp absurdist piece ripping at all the gooey goodness of Free Love and the New Age.