Frozen Assets

This has to be in the running for the worst movie of all time. My roommate and I just watched it, but don't know why; it was so painful. I wonder some times how movies like this make it in Hollywood. I honestly cannot think of a worse movie. Shelly Long sucks so bad in this movie that it makes her work in "Troop Beverly Hills" look like Oscar material. The chemistry between Corbin Bersen and Shelly Long was reminiscent of that time on Mister Wizard's World when he blew up his lab. And what was with Larry Miller??? Really, come on, people. Everything about this movie sucked, even the lighting! We will never be able to get back the last hour and a half of our life...never!

Truly a fun schmaltzy romantic comedy- not for snobs or those into avante-garde esoteric analytical movies. Hysterical plot involving good hearted prostitutes in a contest,including a romantic relationship between a biogenetic counselor and an aggressive newly assigned bank president. For those who want a light laugh without violence or nudity, this old 1992 film has so many laughs. The double entendres float throughout the script. Shelly Long has great charm. Comedian Larry Miller plays an endearing Newton who surprises us all at the charming end! Hopefully they make this old video into a DVD and make it available on Netflix or Itunes. Ignore the snobby critics. This is a heart warmer, uplifting, a feel good movie. The values are socially redeeming. Refreshingly original. More people would give it a chance if they would ignore the constipated reviews from old Siskel and Ebert and their ardent followers.

Personally, I enjoyed this movie and will seek to replace my recorded-off-TV tape with the DVD.

Zach Shepard (Corbin Bernsen) gets a promotion but on arrival in Hobart, Oregon, is dismayed to discover that it is not quite the promotion he had in mind. Being like a fish out of water in the sperm bank, his future going down the gurgler, he is determined to make something of it so to get promoted out of there, encountering the opposition of Dr Grace Murdoch (Shelley Long) who is the biogenetic counselor in charge of the sperm bank. I felt they played their parts well with their initial conflicts and tensions softening later. Larry Miller was the 'certifiable nerd', Newton Patterson, who wasn't what people took him to be. Teri Copley was charming as Peaches, one of the local working girls. Things that I liked in this movie were how Newton was accepted by Zach and Grace and given a chance while others rejected him as a looser and dropout and the working girls were also accepted as people, though rejected by some judgmental locals as 'whores'. There is warmth and humor in this movie.

I give this film a 4/10

This film isn't particularly terrible, or particularly great. Shelley Long & Corbin Bernsen do a passable job as the lead/romantic interest parts, Larry Miller plays an adequate funny man, though his mother in the movie (Dody Goodman) was great as his neurotic, doting mother. The general ambiance of the film is decent, though some of the dialogue is awkward, some of the scenes just feel out of place and it just kind of ambles along, giving a generally weak feeling as it goes.

I wouldn't recommend buying this film (though i do own a copy... rental store near me shut down), it's probably worth watching once if you ever spot it on television, there are a few genuinely funny moments to be had.

In 1992 this was the first movie that I worked in as a background artist. As Corbin Bernsen blew take after take and could not remember his lines or keep them consistent I could tell this film was not destined for greatness. I must say though as bad as the movie was I did find myself chuckling at some of the humour. My father wanted to leave the movie theater after my scene was over but I convinced him to stay to see it through. Soon I will finally own a copy of this film on VHS, all the local Oregon video stores have reported their copies missing or "stolen". Probably by other Oregonians who were in the movie and didn't want it to be seen by the masses.