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Notevery reviewer gets the meat of this movie. It works on many levels, not least as a take-down of the craze for "surface youth". I appreciate that you two appreciate it!
5:28 Cops helped me to evict two overstaying boozers I had thought were friends. In my case they said they couldn't DO the eviction but would stand by me as I said it to them.
The power of the showrunners to give us 2 characters for 45 min and make us love sooo harrrrd that we're a blubbering mess by the end (at least I was). And then to have the payoff be that Joel finally accepts his role as Ellie's protector. Yeah; he gets a car, and he gets some gear, and we get some exposition, but the whole thing boils down to that letter. Amazing. And I know this is a year ago, and you've probably already seen the rest of the episodes, but... yeah. You're gonna want some fancier kleenex. 😭
There is a comedy made after this one and I think it is with John Candy, anyway the Duke Brothers do a cameo appearance as a couple of street bums. Anyone Know the movie I am referring to?
In 1976, there was a TV movie sequel, titled LOOK WHAT'S HAPPENED TO ROSEMARY'S BABY, which picks up 8 years after the first film. We learn that Guy took off for a successful career in Hollywood, while Rosemary and Adrian stayed behind with the coven. Rosemary (played by Patty Duke) absconds with the boy prior to his 8th birthday party in an effort to prevent the coven from performing some sort of ritual on him . It's been year since the viewed the film, so most of the details are fuzzy ... somehow a hooker played by Tina Louise (Ginger from Gilligan's Island) offers them shelter, then somehow convinces Rosemary to hide out in an abandoned bus. Suddenly, the bus powers up and takes off (without a driver) and we never learn of Rosemary's fate. The film then skips ahead to show a now adult Adrian, going by the name Andrew, being a trouble maker with the local police ... and honestly, the rest of the film was so boring, I can't even recall how it ends. The film was poorly written but Patty Duke's (brief) screen time and the return of Ruth Gordon as Minnie Castevet are about the only things making this dud of celluloid worth watching at all. = = = = = = = = = = Ira Levin, the author of the ROSEMARY'S BABY novel, published a sequel novel in 1997, titled SON OF ROSEMARY, which completely ignores the event of the 1976 TV movie, and serves as a direct sequel to the original film. It is reveled that the year is now 1999 and Adrian is a world famous new age spiritual guru. The coven had placed a spell over Rosemary in 1973, putting her in a coma to prevent her from running off with Adrian. As the novel beings, she has awakened upon the death of the last member of the coven. After being reunited with Adrian, she herself becomes a celebrity of sorts, all the while, Adrian attempts to reassure her that he's rejected the coven's evil influence and wants to bring spiritual enlightenment to the world. There are a few odd interactions between Rosemary and Andy (bordering on incest) and on new year's eve, a deadly virus is unleased upon the planet and Satan emerges to drag Rosemary to Hell. She then wakes up to find herself 33 years in the past (prior to getting pregnant), laying in bed next to Guy at their apartment in the Bramford building. It's left up to the reader to decide if Rosemary simply dreamt the events of the 1967 and 1997 novels or had actually experienced a premonition of future events.
1938's "The Adventures of Robin Hood" was in splendid color. Great film, also. 1964's "A Hard Day's Night" -- "Beatles" -- was in black-and-white as a matter of cost -- no one yet knew that they'd last.