Kiss Her Goodbye

This was kind of a surprise finding this movie. I was skimming around my ONDemand Spectrum menu and saw Steven Hill listed. I thoroughly enjoy the two Alfred Hitchcock programs and know I liked him on both series so I decided to try a few minutes of it to see how I'd like it and see if I recognized any other people in this movie. There were a few other people from the Alfred programs I recognized. Won't have to list them because if you watch these shows like I do than you probably recognized them yourself.

Overall this was a pretty good movie. I think the one flaw I wanted to list was how quickly Ed and Marge fell in love. I could've done without that plotpoint.

Ed has basically uprooted his life for his sister. He's not bitter or angry about it. He's a very supportive and kind brother. Ed's honest about some parts of Emily's troubles...he says that she has the mind of a child. She does do some things without really thinking about them to start with. But some of this stuff is also on the men gawking at her. I'll use the two examples I have. At the beginning of the movie it shows Emily being interested in a hula hoop. She's over there hula hooping and the men are gawking at her like she's doing a strip tease. Another scene features Emily undressing in front of a window where the blinds are open and the men are again gawking at her like she's dancing around a pole.

I will feature a scene on the opposite site of the scale. Emily's playing on playground equipment and she's got a dress on. I'm sure you can predict how many times she's flashing her panties to the crowd and doesn't realize she's basically putting on a show for the crowd. Even a lady comes up and cautions her about what she's doing.

I still say Ed's a good brother but he's also only the one person. It seems like if he wasn't with Emily that he expected her to stay in her room. He's trying his best to shield his sister from bad things because Emily is capable of getting into plenty of trouble. And she has and she will get into serious trouble in this movie. Ed tries to cover for her but it just doesn't work. The evidence points clearly to Emily.

I'm trying to be careful with this review because I don't want to give too many details away because this movie is really worth a watch if you're able to catch it on. I'm not sure if this has been playing on Sundance (that was the menu I spotted it on when I was skimming) or if this movie is one that's rarely or never played but managed to show up on the ONDemand menu.