jimakros

I love Sylvia Sidney. She was easily one of the greatest and most underappreciated actresses Hollywood ever had. She should have easily won multiple oscars but supposedly she was hard to work with and the academy looked the other way. Then the studio didnt help her much,as great an actress as he was she was given mediocre scripts and she never made a huge popular movie. She was mostly cast with second rate leading actors and was expected to carry the movie alone. In this one she is paired with second rate leading man George who manages not to ruin this movie which is an acomplishment in itself. The story is likable and so are the characters. This rather obscure little movie is easily one of the best Sylvia Sidney ever did.

Its is not often one gets to see a movie where practicaly everything is wrong.

This is one of them. I dont know what Altman thought he was making but this is a confusing mess and boring as hell.

The basic plot is a stupid story that is impossible to make anyone care. The leading characters are sketchy,cardboard and totaly unlikable in a completely uninteresting way.

Scenes are put together in seemingly random order,its impossible to fully understand what is going on and when anything happens.

There are some decent production values that unfortunately are completely lost in the abominable mess of a script.

Theres alot of good music in this,but its just like a separate showpiece basicaly unrelated to the plot,and one simply cannot enjoy it while trying to figure out what is going on in this movie. Very sad that so many good actors are completely wasted in this.