It's a great movie. Maybe one of the best.
A romantic comady set in New York City in June of 1980. I think this is even better than "The Last Picture Show". This is what making movies is all about. A truely great film.
shareHow can you compare the two?
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If you want to travel back to New York City in 1980 and watch a love story about people that are no longer with us, but are very much missed, then this is worth the time to watch.
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And what, your Obama diss is a symphony of words? Get real.
shareI found this film to be absolutely charming, loved every minute. Terrific cast all around.
I only watched this after seeing Star 80 and reading up on Dorothy Stratten, she did a fine job. I am sure that the sad circumstances that surround the film has ultimately hurt the films' repuatation.
Don't make me laugh, your kung fu is so so.
This movie is one of the great New York romantic comedies, up there with "Breakfast at Tiffany's"
It is sad to realize that most of the main players are gone and indeed, greatly missed -- but growing up at that time, and 1980 was a great year for me, I see so much in that movie that had the best elements of that time (I'm the same age as Quentin Tarantino and I suspect this is why this is one of his all time favorite movies as well)
Also, nobody (other than Humphrey Bogart) is cooler than Ben Gazzara in this movie.
i saw the film once again after many years. i still like it, still think of it as one of my favorite films. yet while i was watching it again, i thought, why did this film make SUCH a big impression on me? then i realized that i was only
seventeen years old at the time. (i'm one year older than tarantino.) and i literally had never seen anything like it. certain elements of "they all laughed" were "magic" to me at the time, such as blaine novak's dialogue and colleen camp's ravishing presence. i hadn't seen all that many romantic comedies or detective movies up to that time, and i certainly had never seen a movie with THAT kind of cast (hepburn, gazzara, hansen, ritter, etc.). (i wasn't aware yet of what the BEAUTIFUL PEOPLE look like on screen.) and i had never seen a film directed by peter bogdanovich. so the film introduced me to a kind of world, or fantasy world, that i didn't know existed. (even though i had been in manhattan many times and was even familiar with some of the locations in the film, such as rizzoli's, broadway, etc.) i guess one is just more impressionable at that age.
the film DOES embody some of what might be termed "the best elements of that time." yet seeing it in retrospect, it also seems to embody some of the elitist, snobbish elements of its time. it's a "classist" film, really, portraying an exclusive, privileged section of society; "bourgeois" film making at its most characteristic. "they all laughed" is a great achievement, yet one of the things it's "great" at doing is aestheticizing the glitz and glamor of the early eighties. the film has a "dark" side that is fascinating, yet at the same time it seems to revel in a superficial view of the world.
interestingly, my mother once saw the film on television and she didn't like it. she thought that the younger women in the film "looked like porno actresses." from her point of view, the movie was a cheap and sleazy production, just a step or two above being an out-and-out "sex film." what was "glamorous" to me at the time (and what still projects an "aura" of glamor) seemed cheap and tawdry to her.