Okay! At the part where he converts Molly (Lucie Arnaz) into Judaism, they make out and take each other's clothes off and they became nude. No d*cks, boobs, anything shown, but I was like, "What the *beep* Goodness, it was just weird to see Diamond nude. I almost barfed. Even my sis didn't wanna see it.
shareI thought it was a great scene, and very well done. Diamond and Arnezz had good chemistry in the whole movie.
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What are you, 12?
What a juvenile comment.
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To me, it was hinted at, but not forced down your throat. By today's standards, this was clean and well-done.
A previous poster commented on the chemistry between Diamond and Arnaz - yup, it was there and present.
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I was only a kid when this came out but I remember thinking how romantic it was. For a pre-teen girl it was perfect, and re-watching as an adult, I still love it. Lucie Arnaz is an amazing actress and she and Diamond had great chemistry. I don't know what there is to be "grossed out" by, in fact I remember hoping he and Molly would get together. The only thing I think they should've shown was when they got married. At the end he tells his father that "it's no sin to marry the woman you love" yet when his father visited him, earlier in the film, after the love scene, he tells his father that Rivka was getting a divorce, so they weren't married yet. I would've liked to see a wedding scene.
It's fun re-watching this movie and seeing things I missed as a kid. I used to play that record over and over and had the movie on video. I remember that the movie came out at Christmas and going to see it. Strange, what memories seeing this brought back.
I know Lucie Arnaz does well on Broadway, but I'd have loved to see her in other movies. And Diamond did well for a novice. It had to be hard to star in your 1st film with Lawrence Olivier playing your father!
Funny - I'm just watching this movie now. The love scene is kinda creepy. i couldn't watch it. But, I really liked this movie when it first came out. I was 14, and I thought the whole love story was great. Really romantic.
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I thought Lucie and Neil had amazing chemistry in this film, it's like they were made for eachother, wouldn't have surprised me if they were together in real life they looked so good together (I know their not together in real life). Neil Diamond was such a drop dead gorgeous and innocently sexual man in this movie, and Lucie is such a classically beautiful woman and an impressively natural and brilliant actress, both comedy and serious, I love her so much, have a soft spot for her since the Lucy days. I have to admit though that I tried to look elsewhere when he started to take her top off but the movie was just so romantic and that scene and the lead up to it was so tender and romantic that I just had to look. It was very very tasteful and classy, as was the whole film. And as someone remarked in another post here....you can never play Hello Again too many times in a two hour film....I was perpetually weeping the whole way through.....
shareI have to say I thought it was creepy too. Possibly he wasn't comfortable, or it looked too fake? But it was rather like watching your dodgy uncle getting off with some woman he hardly knows at a wedding. Odd, either way.
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shareI felt very uncomfortable. For me, it was because he was still married. Honestly, I didn't like that he chose his career over his wife, so the whole relationship with Molly felt uncomfortable. I don't care if his wife seemed boring, or that she didn't understand the show business lifestyle. He turned out to be different from the man she married, and that wasn't fair to her. I don't care if he wasn't happy. Marriage isn't all rainbows and unicorns, but you stick with it no matter what. If we all left when we felt unhappy, all marriages would end. It's this mentality that causes the divorce rate to be as high as it is.
Anyway, that's why I felt uneasy. I didn't think it was romantic at all.
It seems to me that they were both equally to blame. He chose his career over her but she chose her preferred life over him. Neither of them were willing to follow the other so how is it all his fault?
I get that he was still married and all that which is why you did not like the relationship with the other broad--no arguing that part of it but I just disagree that the end of the marriage was all on him.
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