Siskel & Ebert Classics - 2/3/90 - Stanley & Iris, Loose Cannons 

AMEN.

It also makes me cry 😢and I think it’s a drama 🎭

Stanley & Iris was the final American picture from the Oscar nominated filmmaking team behind Hud and Norma Rae: director Martin Ritt and writers Irving Ravetch and Harriet Frank. A romantic film that did some good business despite a series of production problems. A Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Picture. Peace!!!

Umm Porkys 1 was a huge box office hit

And is still unfunny trash

A Christmas story is still amazing

Deeply flawed and corny movie…but it was enjoyable. De Niro and Jane Fonda were good. Both very charismatic people who saved a melodramatic, under-written and over-cheesy movie.

It’s an entertaining movie, but it’s pure schlock. The scene where De Niro stops the bus and says “Teach me to read!” while the rain was pouring down felt like an SNL parody. I liked it overall, but Siskel was right…it was a glorified made-for-tv movie

100% agree

Was Fonda treasonous? I heard she was just opposed to the war.

That's ridiculous. Jane did many movies after North Vietnam.

Stanley and Iris is s beautiful little gem of a movie.

@@sdrawkcabUK She visited North Vietnam during the war, took publicity photos on an NVA tank, painted them as victims in the war (ignoring atrocities committed), and said all American POWs were war criminals…I can understand her opposing the war but she took it too far and really crossed the line. Maybe she got too caught up in the anti-war movement, but I think vets were justifiably upset with her. I think an argument can be made that it was somewhat treasonous since she supported an enemy and tried to undermine American troops during wartime. The North Vietnamese tortured Americans and justified it by claiming they were war criminals not deserving of humane treatment…which Jane Fonda supported at the time. I’m sure she deeply regrets that.

it is funny

"gross and without humanity" ? How was it gross ? How was it without humanity ? The film was riveting, it's a fascinating thriller about two men driven to self destruction. I guess you want a simple film about clearly defined heroes and villains.

Out of curiosity, you recorded these off Turner Classic Movies, right?

Don’t forget Exit to Eden

Nothing But Trouble is a hilarious movie.