Wow! This has got to be the most unintentional most hilarious film of all time!
Besides Nick Nolte bursting out "AND THATS WHAT I LIKE ABOUT THE SOUTH!", the funniest moment was the final line.
"Lowenstein. Lowenstein."
Pure comedic genius!
the book was really funny.
freakin' idiot! napolen dynamite
That is a classic line.
"AND THATS WHAT I LIKE ABOUT THE SOUTH!" Does anybody know where I can find the clip?
It is not at all funny.....that line is really sad.
Lorelai:The government will close that day.Barbra Streisand will give her final concert... again.
How about every time he tells Streisand she's beautiful? I swear he says it ten times and each one is more funny than the last, especially since every shot of Babs is so fuzzy with soft-focus that I want to wipe my TV screen. I read the book first and I don't remember Tom admiring her beauty that many times. Do you think Babs added that part too?
shareHow about every time he tells Streisand she's beautiful?
YES! I'm glad I'm not the only one who thinks this! If I were up to it, I think I'd rent every movie BS was ever in and see how often she's told she's so beautiful. It's like she's so aware that she's NOT beautiful and so insecure about it, that she gets it written into every script. In some of her earlier films, like Funny Girl, OK, she was the unattractive one and she knew it and came out with it. But as time went on, she became this 'gorgeous creature' and I'm thinking, 'What the HECK?'
They say if you repeat a lie often enough, people will start to believe it. So everywhere I read 'Barbra is so BEAUTIFUL!' and I think, 'Wow. They've heard it so often, they believe it!'
I'm not saying I don't like her or she's not a talented singer or anything (though in films, she always seems to be playing 'Barbra Streisand as...' fill in the gap). But come on. This is NOT a beautiful woman. She's got close-set eyes almost to the point of being cross-eyed. A honker of a nose, a mouth with no shape (looks like a normal mouth melted and ooozed sideways) and a boxy figure (no waist, no curves below the boobs). That doesn't make her a bad person. It doesn't say anything about her character, but she's objectively NOT nice to look at.
Yet in every film, it seems like she's got it written into her contract that some man has got to tell her how gorgeous she is, at least five or ten times.
Meanwhile, Tom has got a really lovely wife at home...
You know, I understand what you're saying, but have any of you posters ever hear the line: "Beauty is in the eye of the beholder"?
shareHow about every time he tells Streisand she's beautiful? I swear he says it ten times and each one is more funny than the last, especially since every shot of Babs is so fuzzy with soft-focus that I want to wipe my TV screen.
I saw this movie about 14 years ago, and that is the line I remember most too! Here is this horrific subject matter, and then he breaks out with that! It really helped break the tension. I've actually used that line in my life (even though I've never gone through such a trauma as Nolte's character).
shareThe line wasn't funny at all. It was very dramatic and moving. He'd just bared his soul and revealed the traumatic events of his childhood. When he finished, he felt awkward and tried to break the tension with dark humor. It's a great moment in the movie.
shareAs a Southerner, I also think it's Tom's condemnation of
a polite tendency to deny & cover up that characterized
Lila. It is a stereotype to characterize that denial as
Southern, but not a false stereotype.
As a Southerner, I also think it's Tom's condemnation of
a polite tendency to deny & cover up that characterized
Lila. It is a stereotype to characterize that denial as
Southern, but not a false stereotype.
AND THAT'S WHAT I LIKE ABOUT IMDBBBBBBBBBBBBB!!!
shareI agree. The book is great but I also could not stop laughing at some of the scenes in the film.
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