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The cast of A and B actors really shines in this look at the brief dance marathon craze in the early Great Depression era. Jane Fonda is particularly good as the tough talking down and out would be movie actress reduced to this type of competition to survive. The late Gig Young is just perfect as the "Yozah!" shouting MC who milks every situation involviong the competetors for every ounze of crowd pleasing he can summon. There are flash forwards throughout and although at the end we do not learn tha actual winners it doesn't matter, so exhausted are we at that point. Directed by Sident Pollack in one of his best efforts. Highly recommended.
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when I was a kid I went to a dance contest just like this. When I say the film it brought back some REAL memories of something that was very disturbing to me at the time. There were real people like the ones in the film. Also for some other reason it just made me feel for some of these people and how desperate they were.
One of my "guilty pleasures", I think it's a Classic, with a capitalhC", I won't be as harsh with your call on this oneGrins
It has never been one of my favorite films, but then I do not consider Pollack anything spectacular in general. I think this and things like Out of Africa truly represent the limit of his incompetence. He is a professional with no soul.
I would not be so severe with " Out of Africa ! It has some lovely scenery there...In Africa...
"Tootsie" and 'Three Days of the Condor" the recent "The Interpreter"?
Condor I didn't like at all (but perhaps largely due to its star choice - Redford), and my memory of Tootsie is pretty old, I thought it was cute but not significant... I only saw it when it came out though. The Interpreter I have not seen yet. I have mixed emotions on Pollack. I like watching him speak, he loves movies and can talk about them well (much like Tarantino BTW), and he is a true professional, deeply involved in movies business, but his directing doesn't seem to have a real spark to it. In that sense it is very Hollywood - a solid professisonally done entertainment, but not more than that.
I have to agree that this pretty much sums up The Interpreter. I enjoyed Nicole and Penn's performances...mostly, but the plot kind of dried up in the end and didn't really resolve itself terribly well.It just seemed a bit devoid of that something.....the same thing that Ray Charles had oozing and dripping from everything he did.
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