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Hi, Mom!

  • 1970
  • R
  • 1h 27m
IMDb RATING
6.1/10
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Robert De Niro and Jennifer Salt in Hi, Mom! (1970)
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A Vietnam vet moves into an apartment and peers through other people's windows across the street, meets one of the women, and discovers Black theater.A Vietnam vet moves into an apartment and peers through other people's windows across the street, meets one of the women, and discovers Black theater.A Vietnam vet moves into an apartment and peers through other people's windows across the street, meets one of the women, and discovers Black theater.

  • Director
    • Brian De Palma
  • Writers
    • Brian De Palma
    • Charles Hirsch
  • Stars
    • Robert De Niro
    • Allen Garfield
    • Lara Parker
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  • IMDb RATING
    6.1/10
    6.5K
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    • Director
      • Brian De Palma
    • Writers
      • Brian De Palma
      • Charles Hirsch
    • Stars
      • Robert De Niro
      • Allen Garfield
      • Lara Parker
    • 52User reviews
    • 34Critic reviews
  • See production info at IMDbPro
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    Robert De Niro
    Robert De Niro
    • Jon Rubin
    Allen Garfield
    Allen Garfield
    • Joe Banner
    Lara Parker
    Lara Parker
    • Jeannie Mitchell
    Charles Durning
    Charles Durning
    • Superintendent
    • (as Charles Durnham)
    Abraham Goren
    • Pervert
    Bruce Price
    • Jimmy Mitchell
    Ricky Parker
    • Ricky Mitchell
    Andy Parker
    • Andy Mitchell
    Jennifer Salt
    Jennifer Salt
    • Judy Bishop
    Robbie Heywood
    • Roommate
    Leslie Bornstein
    • Roommate
    Paul Bartel
    Paul Bartel
    • Uncle Tom Wood
    Gerrit Graham
    Gerrit Graham
    • Gerrit Wood
    Nelson Peltz
    • Playboy
    Delia Abrams
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    Tofer Delaney
    • Date
    Margaret Pine
    • Date
    Hector Lino
    • N.I.T. Journal Revolutionary
    • (as Hector Valentin Lino Jr.)
    • Director
      • Brian De Palma
    • Writers
      • Brian De Palma
      • Charles Hirsch
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    4moonspinner55

    Confessions of a Peeping Jon

    Robert De Niro plays a would-be filmmaker in New York City who is given $2000 by a porno producer to make Peep Art--filming the sexual exploits of his neighbors directly out his apartment window--but action is slow, so he gets to know the woman living across from him by pretending they had a date. Another of De Niro's neighbors, a white stage producer, promotes his show, "Be Black Baby", by stirring up the public with on-the-street commentary on what it's like to be black in America. Audacious early effort from writer-director Brian De Palma, a quasi-follow-up to his "Greetings" from 1968, has some very funny revue-style sequences with tricky staging, although the second-act (with white actors in black-face and black actors in white-face) is too hostile and ugly and shuts down the comedy. The two halves of the picture never really jell, anyway, and one begins to miss the easy, naturally comic dialogue from the opening. ** from ****
    Infofreak

    A unique movie, which is both funnier and darker than 'Greetings'. A must for both fans of De Palma and De Niro.

    'Hi, Mom!' is supposedly a sequel to Brian De Palma's earlier 'Greetings', but the connections are a bit tenuous, even though Robert De Niro once again plays Jon Rubin. Is he the same character? I suppose so, but it's hard to say. Alan Garfield and Gerrit Graham also reappear. Garfield could well be the same guy, he's involved in pornography after all, but Graham is most definitely playing a different person. It's just one of many fascinating things about this unique movie, which is both funnier and darker than 'Greetings'. Rubin is a Vietnam vet who fancies himself a movie director, or maybe this is just an excuse to spy on the occupants of the building opposite. They include Graham, a radical involved in guerrilla theatre and the black power movement (there's a priceless moment where he paints himself black), and the sexy Judy (Jennifer Salt who subsequently co-starred in De Palma's breakthrough thriller 'Sisters'), who he decides to seduce (another classic scene). De Niro is on top form throughout, I really enjoyed his performance. Charles Durning has a hilarious bit at the beginning as the building Super, and cult fave Paul Bartel ('Eating Raoul') can be spotted if you keep your eyes open. The highlight of the movie is the brilliant 'Be Black Baby' sequence, which has to be seen to be believed. De Palma is a talented and versatile director who rarely gets the credit he deserves. Those who simplistically dismiss him as nothing but a Hitchcock rip-off would do well to watch 'Greetings' and 'Hi, Mom!' two of the most original and innovative American movies of the late 60s/early 70s. And Robert De Niro fans just have to see his work in these two movies, and I also recommend they check him out in Roger Corman's 'Bloody Mama' with Shelley Winters and Bruce Dern, and his small role in 'Born To Win' opposite George Segal. These all show that he really had something special going on before he teamed up with Scorsese.
    6jed-estes

    Not as good as the first one

    I watched this back to back with the films predecessor Greetings and I found the first one to be better and more sincere. This one just is. It tries to make a statement about the black community but it is lost on me what that statement is. Maybe it is just because I am not of that time. I had high hopes for this one because Greetings was so good but this one is slow paced and has no apparent meaning. I will give it a second viewing at some point because almost all of Brian De Palma's movies are better on the second viewing, Mission Impossible anyone? But I have my doubts about this one. This is most notable as the last film De Palma made before his breakout success with 1973's Sisters. I however think Sisters is even more a piece of garbage than this movie. See this to complete the masterpiece that is Greetings, all though their is not much completion in this.
    5tedr0113

    An odd mix indeed

    I rated this movie in the middle only because I feel there were two distinct parts to the movie with an indecisive end. The first part, with Robert De Niro prominent is very funny, at time uproariously so. (The opening with Charles Durning is priceless.) The part with the theater of "Be Black Baby" was pretty strong stuff, even today. It was real and scary and had no relationship to the first part. This part was really tense and made me shudder several times.

    The problem I had was what did the De Niro part have to do with the "Be Black Baby" part. Maybe I am old-fashioned and wanted something more linear or, really, coherent. Perhaps the appeal of this movie is the lack of obedience to strictures. I do applaud that kind of freedom, but only when it works. I laughed and cringed during what felt like a double feature. Both parts work very well. But together they make an uneasy mix.
    6Boba_Fett1138

    Ever wondered what Brian De Palma and Robert De Niro used to do before they got famous?

    They made some weird stuff together. Brian De Palma always has been a director with an unique and unusual style, that always had been quite experimental and I love him for that but that doesn't mean that I think that all of his movies are very good.

    "Hi, Mom!" is far from a great movie because it feels like such a big mess. The story is being all over the place and it makes lots of sudden jumps and which the story just completely takes another turn and becomes one about something totally different. Like basically all of De Palma's earliest movies, this one feels more like an art-house one.

    The movie got shot as if they improvised a lot of stuff just on the spot. Also the actors seemed to have improvised quite a lot while playing, which is something that I do like about this movie. The movie does not feels stylized or planned out but more feels rebellious and simplistic, which adds to the whole satire element of the movie.

    As a satire this movie does has some messages in it and it also at times does this in a good way. The movie does really become an effective one in certain parts but this doesn't of course prevent the movie from being a very disjointed one.

    Not an horrible movie but still far too messy and odd for me to really like it or consider this a watchable one for just everyone.

    6/10

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    • Trivia
      The opening scene in which the landlord (Charles Durning) is showing Jon Rubin (Robert De Niro) around his crummy new apartment is a parody of a then-contemporary television public-service announcement for the New York Urban Coalition, in which a similarly-slimy landlord shows off a dilapidated apartment to a black man. The movie scene follows the commercial closely, and both De Niro and the unnamed black renter accept the apartment with the same words: "I'll take it," but the commercial is in black-and-white. (The public-service campaign, titled "Give A Damn", was also responsible for the same-named 1969 hit single by the pop group Spanky & Our Gang.)
    • Goofs
      When Jon Rubin is finally about to seduce Judy Bishop in her apartment, a microphone is visible, 'peeping' into the room several times from behind the sofa where she is lying down.
    • Quotes

      [last lines]

      John Winnicove: I don't mean to push you...

      Jon Rubin: And I'm...

      John Winnicove: ...but we have to get off the air now.

      Jon Rubin: But...

      John Winnicove: Do you have anything...

      Jon Rubin: Are you...

      John Winnicove: ...that you would just like to say in summary?

      Jon Rubin: Well, uh, I would like to say something, uh if you don't mind.

      John Winnicove: No, of course not.

      Jon Rubin: Uh, I'd like to say hello to my mother, if you don't mind.

      John Winnicove: Uh, of course.

      Jon Rubin: Hi, Mom!

    • Connections
      Featured in Scene by Scene: Brian De Palma (1998)
    • Soundtracks
      Hi, Mom!
      Music by Eric Kaz

      Lyrics by John Andreolli

      Sung by Jeffrey Lesser (as Jeff Lesser)

      Recorded at A&R Studios under the supervision of Eric Kaz

      Engineer: Dave Sanders

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    • Release date
      • 1970 (United Kingdom)
    • Country of origin
      • United States
    • Language
      • English
    • Also known as
      • Hi mom
    • Filming locations
      • New York City, New York, USA
    • Production company
      • West End Films
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    • Runtime
      1 hour 27 minutes
    • Color
      • Color
      • Black and White
    • Sound mix
      • Mono
    • Aspect ratio
      • 1.85 : 1

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