Dara-3
Joined Apr 1999
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Watching this film was like reliving the jobs I had in my 20's - waiting for 5 o'clock, looking busy, trying to impress people who didn't give two hoots about you, and the dreams...ah, the dreams...
This is a very believable study of working life for the bottom rung female. How they band together, then fall apart. It's ultimately a sad story with some hope for 2 of the characters. But it's as close to life as it gets.
Wonderful performances by all 4 actresses. And small roles by some big character actors make this a good film.
This is a very believable study of working life for the bottom rung female. How they band together, then fall apart. It's ultimately a sad story with some hope for 2 of the characters. But it's as close to life as it gets.
Wonderful performances by all 4 actresses. And small roles by some big character actors make this a good film.
This is a stupid movie. When I saw it in a movie theater more than half the audience left before it was half over. I stayed to the bitter end. To show fortitude? I caught it again on television and it was much funnier. Still by no means a classic, or even consistently hilarious but the family kinda grew on me. I love Jessica Lundy anyway. If you've nothing better to do and it's free on t.v. you could do worse.
The transition of Bette Davis' Charlotte Vance from old maid to sophisticate is believable. We are rooting for Charlotte all through the film. And when she gives her old mother the what-for, you will want to cheer! The coincidence with Jerry's daughter is a little contrived but Janis Wilson who plays Tina is good (and why was she uncredited? She has a very significant role!). Of course, IMHO I believe that Jerry is too pale a character to stand up with the revived Charlotte and hope that in a sequel she finds true love with Claude Rains' doctor. (See "Deception" for another Davis-Rains-Henreid triangle.)