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I saw this on HBO back when they were only on from 5P to 2A (This is 1976 for those of you too young to remember). It has some bad acting, and the content was dark, to say the least, but it had some really good points. Firstly the soundtrack was great, featuring the tile song "In Sachet" and secondly, a wonderful actor by the name of Ian Wolfe, who if you ever saw him, you would remember him from one of his umpteen TV appearances. (He started acting in his mid-50's and continued until he was 94 years old in the Warren Beatty powered 'Dick Tracy') The cement-pouring scene is worth the price of renting it, if you can find it. I could not locate it to rent on the major internet DVD rental site. (Don't want to break any IMDB rules). If you do find it, check it out. You'll think twice about sticking your aged loved ones in a retirement home.... I guarantee it... :)
Well, let's say that Julia Sweeny's character in bi-weekly doses for three minutes at a time with guest stars was enjoyable and funny. This should have proven to the Saturday-Night-Live-come-Movie-Moguls that their skits should remain that... SKITS. Three other such skit movies that come to mind are "Ladies Man" (2001), "Stuart Saves His Family" (1995) and "A Night at the Roxbury" (1998). All of these were awful and simply killed their pre-movie roots on SNL. The last decent skit that came out of SNL was "The Blues Brothers" (1980), and then Danny Akroyd even destroyed that with "The Blues Brothers 2000" (1998). I'll at least give him that "The Coneheads" (1993) was at least bearable. (Meaning my popcorn stayed down). Who knows what would have happened if Lorne Michaels had done a "Samurai Insert profession here" movie or a "Roseanne Rosannadana". Come to think of it, to bad Phil Hartman is still not around to give us a "Caveman Lawyer" movie. That would have been just a s believable as the rest of the tripe they have been passing off on the American public as 'entertainment'.
Well, while some may bash this poor film for its lack of character development and generally bad writing, you do have three funny actresses (Curtin and Saint James went on to Kate and Allie fame, if you can call it that) I saw this film when I was 13 years old, and what makes it a worthy rental, is Jane Curtin's striptease near the end of the movie. It had my little hormones raging, and it was just as potent when I saw the film 10 years later on video. So... rent the movie, fast-forward to that scene and enjoy. In the words of the famous attorney Jackie Childs, they are real, and they are fabulous.