"Arsenic and Old Lace" 1944

“Arsenic and Old Lace”

Add Cary Grant to the list of actors I love. George Clooney has been called a modern day Grant, but cute as he is, no one is Cary Grant.

His best work is in comedies. I love him with Katharine Hepburn and Doris Day. But “Arsenic and Old Lace” is a classic.

As soon as you see Mortimer Brewster you know he is a little different from the rest of his family.
Mortimer is in love and ready to run away with a girl but first he has to get out of the house. But he has to take care of family business first.

Mortimer Brewster: Look I probably should have told you this before but you see... well... insanity runs in my family... It practically gallops.

He has two dottering old aunts with a penchant for homicide.

Mortimer Brewster: Look, Aunt Martha, men don't just get into window seats and die!
Abby Brewster: We know, dear. He died first.
Mortimer Brewster: Wait a minute! Stop all this. Now, look, darling, how did he die?
Abby Brewster: Oh, Mortimer, don't be so inquisitive. The gentleman died because he drank some wine with poison in it.
Mortimer Brewster: How did the poison get in the wine?
Martha Brewster: Well, we put it in wine, because it's less noticeable. When it's in tea, it has a distinct odor.
Mortimer Brewster: You mean, you... You put it in the wine!
Abby Brewster: Yes. And I put Mr. Hoskins in the window seat, because Reverend Harper was coming.
Mortimer Brewster: Now, look at me, darling. You mean, you mean you knew what you'd done and you didn't want the Reverend Harper to see the body?
Abby Brewster: Well, not at tea. That wouldn't have been very nice.
Mortimer Brewster: Oh, it's first-degree.
Abby Brewster: Now, Mortimer, you know all about it and just forget about it. I do think that Aunt Martha and I have the right to our own little secrets.

He has a cousin who thinks he is Teddy Roosevelt and building the Panama Canal in the basement.

Teddy Brewster: [after charging up the stairs] Charge the blockhouse!
Reverend Harper: Blockhouse?
Aunt Abby: Yes. The stairs are always San Juan Hill.

And those are the good relatives. His brother looks like Boris Karloff and has his own agenda for the evening. He needs a hide out along with his partner in crime.

Jonathan Brewster: [to Dr. Einstein] This is the home of my youth... As a boy, I couldn't wait to escape from this house. Now, I'm glad to escape back into it.

There are multiple hijinks and a high body count. But the really bad guys get put away and Mortimer gets some good news at the end.

Mortimer Brewster: No, no. I'm not a Brewster. I'm the son of a sea-cook! Ha! Ha! Chaaaaarrrge!

I have seen a couple of amateur performances of this play. One was with two of my nephews. It was a high school production and really well done. Their theater teacher was incredible and did everything from dialect coaching for the Irish cops (oldest nephew was one of those) and building incredible sets. Including a great window seat complete with a dead body (played by my middle nephew).

The guy who played Mortimer went on to be an anchor on the local news. He was no Cary Grant, but he was like seventeen.

My nephew, the Irish cop, is a band director and my nephew that played the dead body has a career in theater.

So it goes to show no part is too small.

"Adventures in Babysitting" 1987

“Adventures In Babysitting”

Chris Parker has a big date with boyfriend. He’s taking her to a fancy French restaurant and she is wearing a pretty new dress. She dances around her bedroom as she gets ready. Then the phone rings and suddenly Chris is available to babysit.

Mrs. Parker: That was Mrs. Anderson, she wants to know if you can babysit tonight.
Chris: No, tell her I can't.
Mrs. Parker: Why not?
Chris: Because I want to sit at home and be depressed.
Brenda: Oh, sit for the Andersons, that'll depress anyone.
Chris: Mom, I'm too old to babysit.

Elisabeth Shue is Chris Parker. It’s her birthday today.

So she goes to the house of Sara and Brad. Brad’s friend Daryl decides to stay over when he sees that Chris is there for the night. He has a Playboy magazine with a centerfold that bears a remarkable resemblance to the babysitter.

Not long after Chris’ best friend runs away from home and is stranded at the bus station and has lost her glasses. Brenda changes her mind soon after arrival.

[in a telephone booth in the bus station]
Brenda: Chris I'm begging you, it's really scary here. I've just seen three people shoot up, a bald Chinese lady with no pants on, and there's this old guy outside who wants his bedroom slippers!
Old Man: [banging on telephone booth] Get out of my house!
Brenda: [kicks out a small box and the guy's slippers] You just moved!

This sets Chris and the kids off to rescue Brenda in downtown Chicago. Then a blown tire, a bad tow and a car jacking set of a chain of events that lead them to the underworld of crime and Mafia.

It is a lot of fun. When I saw “Date Movie” last year, it was like a grown up remake. They even have a scene on a subway and on a roof.

It is a fun eighties movie. It has adventures, hence the title. There is sweetness, a little romance and lots of fun.

Gang Leader: Don't f**k with the Lords of Hell.
[Chris picks up the knife and shoves it in the gang leader's face]
Chris: Don't f**k with the babysitter.

Happy Birthday Elisabeth Shue. Hope to see you soon.

I was tired on this one and just kind of phoned it in. I'll do better next time. But hey, they can't all be gold!

"The Holiday" 2006

“The Holiday”

It is Kate Winslet’s birthday today. She is 36 years old. She has been nominated for six Academy Awards and won one for “The Reader”. She is this generation’s Meryl Streep. And she is just lovely. I like her movies. She makes a lot of period pieces. But I really like the movie “The Holiday”.

Kate plays Iris, a writer who lives outside of London and is in love with a guy from work. He strings her along because she is a good editor and cheerleader. Then one day at an office party his engagement is announced. Iris decides to get out of town.

Hannah: My god, I've just noticed how pathetic you are.
Iris: Really? I'm *so* aware of it.

Cameron Diaz, who is not one of my favorites, does her usual overacting here. Iris and Kate only share screen time for a few minutes, so it is bearable. She plays Amanda. Amanda lives in LA, owns her own company and has a really bad breakup. So she decides to trade houses and take a real vacation.

Amanda: I need some peace and quiet... or whatever it is people go away for.

Iris and Amanda find each other online and soon are jetting off to their new locations.

Not long after they are in the other’s country they are meeting the locals. Iris meets a neighbor who happens to be a old Hollywood screenwriter with stories to tell. Eli Wallach plays Arthur Abbot who teaches Iris about gumption.

Arthur Abbott: You know what I've been asking myself all night?
Iris: What? Why I'm bothering you with all these questions?
Arthur Abbott: I'm wondering why a beautiful girl like you would go to a strangers' house for their Christmas Vacation, and on top of that spend Saturday night with an old cock-up like me.
Iris: Well, I just wanted to get away from all the people I see all the time!... Well, not all the people... one person. I wanted to get away from one... guy.
[she sobs]
Iris: An ex-boyfriend who just got engaged and forgot to tell me.
Arthur Abbott: So, he's a schmuck.
Iris: As a matter of fact, he is... a huge schmuck. How did you know?
Arthur Abbott: He let you go. This is not a hard one to figure out. Iris, in the movies we have leading ladies and we have the best friend. You, I can tell, are a leading lady, but for some reason you are behaving like the best friend.
Iris: You're so right. You're supposed to be the leading lady of your own life, for god's sake! Arthur, I've been going to a therapist for three years, and she's never explained anything to me that well. That was brilliant. Brutal, but brilliant.

Then Iris meets Miles, played very low key by Jack Black. He is a composer and his actress girlfriend goes on location when there is no location. Soon he is confiding to Iris.

Iris: Because you're hoping you're wrong. And every time she does something that tells you she's no good, you ignore it. And every time she comes through and suprises you, she wins you over, and you lose that argument with yourself, that she's not for you.
Miles: Exactly, and on top of that there's the old standby, I can't believe a girl like that would actually be with a guy like me.

Back in the cottage outside of London, Amanda meets Graham. He is played by Jude Law, who is Iris’ brother and they meet cute when he shows up in the middle of the night. He is a little drunk and looking for a place to crash. He isn’t quite prepared for a her brash American nature.

Amanda: You know Graham, I just broke up with someone and considering you just showed up and you're insanely good-looking and probably won't remember me anyway... I'm thinking we should have sex... If you want.
Graham: Is that a trick question?

As with any romantic comedy, everyone falls in love and overcome the little hurdles that aren’t really hurdles. No one talks too much about the geography of long distance relationships.

Cameron is tolerable, but Kate is incredible as always. She elevates this movie beyond a standard romantic comedy or chick flick. I know she is versatile and her dramatic work is incredible. But if she continues to follow Meryl Streep and Katharine Hepburn in the Oscar category I hope she takes time out to do a few more comedies.

"Knocked Up" 2007

“Knocked Up”

I don’t know how to feel about Katharine Heigel quite yet. She looks a lot like Charlize Theron. But she seems a little snooty. And she often plays women that for some reason can’t get a man. Yeah…. Cause guys hate hot blondes. Plus she is always so high maintenance so that might be why she is single.

It is hard to believe how young Seth Rogan is. When he made this movie, he was twenty-three. He looks thirty or so.

They play Alison and Ben. There is one crazy night and they somehow end up pregnant.

Alison is a successful television producer and lives in her sister’s guest house. Really? She can’t afford her own place? One of the best scenes is when she hears about her promotion to on air personality.

Jack: ...there's gonna be some things that you are going to be able to get, that other people in the office don't get... one of them: Gym membership.
Alison Scott: You want me to lose weight?
Jack: [laughing] No, I don't want you to lose weight!
Jill: No, uh, we can't legally ask you to do that.
Jack: We didn't say lose weight... I might say tighten.
Alison Scott: Tight?
Jack: Tighter.
Jill: Just liked toned and smaller.
Jack: Don't make everything smaller, I don't wanna generalize that way... tighter.
Jill: We don't want you to lose weight, we just want you to be healthy. Y'know, by eating less.
Alison Scott: OK.
Jill: We would just like it if you go home and step on the scale, and write down how much you weigh, and subtract it by like, 20.
Alison Scott: 20.
Jill: And then weigh that much.

Ben is developing a website and has somehow stretched out a $30,000 settlement to keep him in pot and drinking money.

Ben Stone: You know, the best thing for a hangover is weed. Do you smoke weed?
Alison Scott: Not really.
Ben Stone: You don't?
Alison Scott: No.
Ben Stone: At all?
Alison Scott: Uh-uh.
Ben Stone: Like... in the morning?
Alison Scott: No... I just... don't.
Ben Stone: It is, like, the best medicine. 'Cause it fixes everything. Jonah broke his elbow once. We just... got high and... it still clicks but, I mean, he's ok.

Then there is Debbie, played by the director’s wife, Leslie Mann. Her kids are also in the movie, wonder how she got that job.

Debbie: [on subject of husbands] You criticize them so much, they get down on themselves, and then they're forced to change!

Paul Rudd is her husband Pete whose main job here is being cute.

Pete: Marriage is like a tense, unfunny version of Everybody Loves Raymond, only it doesn't last 22 minutes. It lasts forever.

I have never been a big fan of the bickering couple. Apparently this movie was popular enough they are reprising their characters in a new movie. I guess I can’t imagine being in that kind of relationship. I know my husband and I will bicker sometimes. Just tonight he got little worked up about the dishwasher. But I couldn’t imagine living in a house where it was all bickering and criticizing. It would get old fast.

So Ben and Alison make it to the end of the pregnancy, somehow learning to love each other. Then there is the birth scene. I think Apatow was going for the Farrelly Brothers’ shot from “There’s Something About Mary”. That was a great shock moment seeing the franks and beans caught in a zipper. This was just bad. We see the baby crowning and there is nothing to suggest that a whole bunch of bodily fluids are involved. It is clean.

And Alison reacts to one of Ben's friend's coming into the room. Excuse me? Two months after I had my son, I was in the room when my nephew was born. Suddenly there was a room full of people. Not like the movies where you see the doctor and a nurse. There were like fifteen people standing around. I had to as a nurse to move so I could get video of the baby coming out.

Later I mentioned to my husband how crowded the room was. He commented that when our son was born there were about that many people in my room. I had no clue. When you have a human being coming out of your body, you just want it out. You don’t care who’s in the room.

Overall it has funny moments. I liked Ben’s friends and roommates and most have gone on to do other things that are also kinda funny.

But the jury of me is still out on Katharine Heigel.

"Heathers" 1988

"Heathers"

I had lunch with a high school friend yesterday named Heather.

Heather McNamara: It's your turn Heather.
Heather Chandler: No, Heather, it's Heather's turn. Heather?
Heather Duke: Sorry Heather.

Luckily she was not like these girls at all. But in 1988, the year we graduated as well as the year this movie was released, Heather was a very popular name and this is a great movie about high school. I love the melodrama that really defines high school. Everything is the end of the world and we could just die of humiliation on a regular basis. Who hasn’t wanted to take out our nemesis? How often were our best friends also our nemesis?

Veronica Sawyer: She's my best friend. God, I hate her.

Winona Ryder is Veronica. Veronica is tortured and writes her angst down in her journal. Somehow she ended up in the popular crowd. The other three are all named Heather. She is condemned to her popularity until J.D. shows up in the form of Christian Slater doing his best Jack Nicholson impression. He is too cool for school.

J.D.: Is your life perfect?
Veronica Sawyer: I'm on my way to a party at Remington University... No, my life's not perfect. I don't really like my friends.
J.D.: I... I don't really like your friends either.
Veronica Sawyer: Well, it's just like - they're people I work with, and our job is being popular and $hit.
J.D.: Maybe it's time to take a vacation.

Soon J.D. and Veronica are a couple with a plan. Veronica thinks it is general mayhem, but J.D. has planned first degree murder.

First they take out the Queen Bee of the Heathers.

Then they take out a couple of jocks. Veronica thinks it is blanks, but they end up really pretty dead. In an effort to cover up their crimes, J.D. plants some evidence to make it look like a murder suicide.

J.D.: Well, ah... Let's take a look at some of the homosexual artifacts I dug up to plant at the scene.
[He picks up a shopping bag and pulls items out of it]
J.D.: All right. Got an issue of "Stud Puppy."
Veronica Sawyer: Great!
[She laughs]
J.D.: Candy dish. Joan Crawford postcard. Let's see, some mascara. All right. And here's the one perfecto thing I picked up. Mineral water.
Veronica Sawyer: Oh, come on, a lot of people drink mineral water, it's come a long way.
J.D.: Yeah, but this is Ohio. I mean, if you don't have a brewski in your hand you might as well be wearing a dress.
Veronica Sawyer: Oh, you're so smart.

Their funeral is very funny.

Kurt's Dad: My son's a homosexual, and I love him. I love my dead gay son.
J.D.: Wonder how he'd react if his son had a limp wrist with a pulse.

It also make Veronica think that maybe her issue is not the other popular kids, but it may be J.D.

Veronica Sawyer: You're a rebel? You think you're a rebel? You're not a rebel you're f**king psychotic!

The movie is full of the eighties. There are shoulder pads the size a football pads. There is pate’ and keggers. Of course this was movie eighties, not real life eighties. Real life was slumber parties in my friend’s basement. Eating pizza and watching videos. I was definitely not the “In-Crowd”.

I have told my son many times over the years he was in high school that anyone that told him that these were the best years of his life were full of crap. It would be sad to be over the best years at seventeen or eighteen. This movie is a great dark fantasy. I love the end when Veronica goes head to head with J.D. and after blowing him to bits take the crown from the last Heather.

It was great.

"Field Of Dreams" 1989

“Field of Dreams”

Since I wrote about “Bull Durham” yesterday, I will write about the only other baseball movie that I like. Being from Iowa, it is almost a requirement to like it. But it is a good movie. I think I mostly like the supporting cast. Overall, Kevin Costner kind of irritates me, except his two baseball movies. My brother-in-law is crazy about “Dances With Wolves” and don’t get him started on “Waterworld”. He love Costner.

This is one of those movies that the movie is better than the book. In the book Ray, the character Costner plays, spends the whole time asking about his father to all the other players. He also has an identical twin brother that comes to help out. The ending would lose its impact if we knew Ray was expecting his father to show up sometime.

Ray Kinsella: I think I know what "If you build it, he will come" means.
Annie Kinsella: Ooh... why do I not think this is such a good thing?
Ray Kinsella: I think it means that if I build a baseball field out there that Shoeless Joe Jackson will get to come back and play ball again.
Annie Kinsella: [staring in disbelief] You're kidding.
Ray Kinsella: Huh-uh.
Annie Kinsella: Wow.
Ray Kinsella: Yeah.
Annie Kinsella: Ha. You're kidding.

Amy Madigan is great. She is smart, funny and passionate about the things she cares about. One of my favorite moments is when she stands up at a school meeting where they are talking about banning books.

Annie Kinsella: Terence Mann was a voice of reason during a time of great madness. Where others were chanting, "Burn, baby burn", he was talking about love and peace and prosperity. He coined the phrase, "Make love, not war". I cherished every one of his books, and I dearly wish he had written some more. And if you experienced even a little bit of the sixties, you would feel the same way, too.
Beulah: [indignantly] I *experienced* the sixties.
Annie Kinsella: No, I think you had two fifties and moved right into the seventies.

Shoeless Joe shows up, played by Ray Liotta. I love Ray Liotta. He is so cool and does a great job. He also offers a lot of the comic relief in the film. The quote below just isn’t the same without that laugh at the end.

Ray Kinsella: Where'd they come from?
Shoeless Joe Jackson: Where did WE come from? You wouldn't believe how many guys wanted to play here. We had to beat 'em off with a stick.
Archie Graham: Hey, that's Smokey Joe Wood. And Mel Ott. And Gil Hodges!
Shoeless Joe Jackson: Ty Cobb wanted to play, but none of us could stand the son-of-a-bitch when we were alive, so we told him to stick it!

Then James Earl Jones shows up as Terrence Mann. In the book it was J.D. Salinger, but he wouldn’t give his permission for the movie. James Earl Jones is a presence. Whether serious or funny, he is irresistible.

Terence Mann: I'm going to beat you with a crowbar until you leave.
Ray Kinsella: You can't do that.
Terence Mann: There are rules here? No, there are no rules here.
[advances with crowbar]
Ray Kinsella: You're a pacifist!
Terence Mann: [stops] $hit.

Finally there is Burt Lancaster as Archibald “Moonlight” Graham. This was one of his last movies. He still possesses that charisma that made him a star. That final wink near the end is perfect.

Dr. Archibald "Moonlight" Graham: Well, you know I... I never got to bat in the major leagues. I would have liked to have had that chance. Just once. To stare down a big league pitcher. To stare him down, and just as he goes into his windup, wink. Make him think you know something he doesn't. That's what I wish for. Chance to squint at a sky so blue that it hurts your eyes just to look at it. To feel the tingling in your arm as you connect with the ball. To run the bases - stretch a double into a triple, and flop face-first into third, wrap your arms around the bag. That's my wish, Ray Kinsella. That's my wish. And is there enough magic out there in the moonlight to make this dream come true?

My husband and I stop in Dyersville, Iowa once to see the field. When we drove up the road there was an event going on and we decided to pass by. From the road you could see the field and it was magnificent. A guy my husband went to school with is one of the baseball extras in the movie. You can see him running sprints in the background.

It is a great movie, but there is a plot point that bugs the crap out of me. Annie’s brother is pressuring Ray to sell the farm before he goes bankrupt and keeps bringing up the field and how terrible it is that he’s wasted rich farmland on a whim.

Mark: Admit it, Ray. You've never liked farming.
Ray Kinsella: That's not true.
Mark: It is true. You don't know the first thing about farming.
Ray Kinsella: Yes I do. I know a lot about farming. I know more than you think I know.
Mark: Then how could you plow under your major crop?
Ray Kinsella: [feigning puzzlement at this word] What's a crop?

The field took up an about three acres of farmland. In 1989 an acre of farmland in that area ran about $1300. On the average an acre produces about 183 bushels per acre and the average price per bushel was $2.54. This adds up to $1394.46. This would really put someone in that danger? He had a lot of working acres that still had corn. So, it doesn’t make sense. Sell a few acres to your neighbor and move on.

That aside, it is a great movie and one that still makes me cry at the end.

"Bull Durham" 1988

“Bull Durham”

This movie is wonderful. My first viewing however didn’t go well.

I was in high school when this movie came out and I went to see it with my mother and my younger sister. Now, movies are something my mother and I like doing together. Mom calls is “going to a show”. It is fun to go with Mom because she usually has a really good time at the movies.

I was looking forward to this movie and thought it was a good idea. There are some movies though that you shouldn’t see with your mother. This is one of those movies.

Susan Sarandon is Annie Savoy. She teaches literature at the local junior college but her true love is baseball. Each year she picks an up and coming star of the Durham Bulls and makes them her personal project for the duration of the season. The opening sums up her character succinctly.

[Opening narration]
Annie Savoy: I believe in the Church of Baseball. I've tried all the major religions, and most of the minor ones. I've worshipped Buddha, Allah, Brahma, Vishnu, Siva, trees, mushrooms, and Isadora Duncan. I know things. For instance, there are 108 beads in a Catholic rosary and there are 108 stitches in a baseball. When I heard that, I gave Jesus a chance. But it just didn't work out between us. The Lord laid too much guilt on me. I prefer metaphysics to theology. You see, there's no guilt in baseball, and it's never boring... which makes it like sex. There's never been a ballplayer slept with me who didn't have the best year of his career. Making love is like hitting a baseball: you just gotta relax and concentrate. Besides, I'd never sleep with a player hitting under .250... not unless he had a lot of RBIs and was a great glove man up the middle. You see, there's a certain amount of life wisdom I give these boys. I can expand their minds. Sometimes when I've got a ballplayer alone, I'll just read Emily Dickinson or Walt Whitman to him, and the guys are so sweet, they always stay and listen. 'Course, a guy'll listen to anything if he thinks it's foreplay. I make them feel confident, and they make me feel safe, and pretty. 'Course, what I give them lasts a lifetime; what they give me lasts 142 games. Sometimes it seems like a bad trade. But bad trades are part of baseball - now who can forget Frank Robinson for Milt Pappas, for God's sake? It's a long season and you gotta trust it. I've tried 'em all, I really have, and the only church that truly feeds the soul, day in, day out, is the Church of Baseball.

Kevin Costner plays Crash Davis a catcher at the end of his career. He went to the “show” once. Not like my mom goes to the show. They call the major leagues “the show”. He is also happy to share his feelings on Annie’s sponsorship.

Annie Savoy: Oh, where are you going?
Crash Davis: After 12 years in the minor leagues, I don't try out. Besides, uh, I don't believe in quantum physics when it comes to matters of the heart.
Annie Savoy: What do you believe in, then?
Crash Davis: Well, I believe in the soul, the cock, the pu$$y, the small of a woman's back, the hanging curve ball, high fiber, good scotch, that the novels of Susan Sontag are self-indulgent, overrated crap. I believe Lee Harvey Oswald acted alone. I believe there ought to be a constitutional amendment outlawing Astroturf and the designated hitter. I believe in the sweet spot, soft-core pornography, opening your presents Christmas morning rather than Christmas Eve and I believe in long, slow, deep, soft, wet kisses that last three days.
[pauses then winks and walks away]
Crash Davis: Goodnight.
Annie Savoy: Oh my. Crash...

Tim Robbins is Ebbie Calvin Laloosh otherwise known as Nuke. He becomes Annie’s project and gets confused with conflicting information from his mentor Crash.

Ebby Calvin LaLoosh: The other day Crash called a woman's pu... pu$$y... um, well, you know how the hair is kind of in a V-shape?
Annie Savoy: Yes, I do.
Ebby Calvin LaLoosh: Well, he called it the Bermuda Triangle. He said that a man could get lost in there and never be heard from again.

The supporting cast is great. My favorite scene takes place on the pitcher’s mound as the players discuss what is going on outside the game.

Larry: [Larry jogs out to the mound to break up a players' conference] Excuse me, but what the hell's going on out here?
Crash Davis: Well, Nuke's scared because his eyelids are jammed and his old man's here. We need a live... is it a live rooster?
[Jose nods]
Crash Davis: . We need a live rooster to take the curse off Jose's glove and nobody seems to know what to get Millie or Jimmy for their wedding present.
[to the players]
Crash Davis: Is that about right?
[the players nod]
Crash Davis: We're dealing with a lot of shit.
Larry: Okay, well, uh... candlesticks always make a nice gift, and uh, maybe you could find out where she's registered and maybe a place-setting or maybe a silverware pattern. Okay, let's get two! Go get 'em.

This is one of my favorite movies. I like two baseball movies and both happen to star Kevin Costner. But I can still remember the discomfort of my first viewing. I was sitting next to my mother and she was laughing. It was funny, but I didn’t want my mother to think it was funny. I wanted to be anywhere but in that seat with my mother and baby sister.

I think everyone would like to believe that their parents don’t know about sex and all that goes with it. Even when my mom gave me the “talk” I remember saying “So, you’ve done that five time?” She blushed and said, “Well, you don’t get a baby every time”. I am still traumatized.

I watched this movie a year or so later with my soon to be husband when it came out on video. Then it was sweet and romantic.

Since then I watch what I am going to see with my mother. Funny movies but I try to stay away from some. Of course sometimes they sneak up on you. Another Susan Sarandon movie, “Banger Sisters” which included a few uncomfortable lines. “Walk Hard” which had a sudden penis in it. I may be in my forties, but she is still my mom.