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Good Grief

posted 19 years ago by sevenof9fl
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OK, I stuck with it til the end because I like Carol Kane and Charles Durning but I almost could not get past the "fraidy cat" chick in the beginning. Not even as a teenager alone in a house was I that timid or so stupid the house would not have been locked up tight as a drum.

I suppose the plus side is that the movie is a good example of the fact that bullies and creeps prey on the weakest in the herd.

Carol Kane, I think, is one of the most underrated actresses of our time, however, and this movie proved it. I think she got "stuck" in her "taxi" character and just was never given an opportunity to prove she could be anything else.

[–] Sburt4-1 18 years ago

Julia didn't start shutting all the shades and locking the doors until she realized the notebook paper was gone. She had written all that infomation down Landis gave her in her note book and there was no reason for it to be missing. Julia realized it was gone and then did a room to room search to make sure all the doors and windows were locked. Then Julia went into the kitchen to check the sliding door again and this time it was unlocked. I disgree she was a fraidy cat chick. The phone line was dead and some guy kept bothering her and then he comes up with a lame ass excuse that no one else is home on that block. Major red flag that something wasn't right with this guy.