Synopsis
A screwball comedy. Remember them?
The accidental mix-up of four identical plaid overnight bags leads to a series of increasingly wild and wacky situations.
1972 Directed by Peter Bogdanovich
The accidental mix-up of four identical plaid overnight bags leads to a series of increasingly wild and wacky situations.
Barbra Streisand Ryan O'Neal Madeline Kahn Kenneth Mars Austin Pendleton Michael Murphy Philip Roth Sorrell Booke Stefan Gierasch Mabel Albertson Liam Dunn John Hillerman George Morfogen Graham Jarvis Randy Quaid M. Emmet Walsh Kevin O'Neal Eleanor Zee Paul Condylis Fred Scheiwiller Carl Saxe Jack Perkins Paul B. Kipilman Gil Perkins Christa Lang Stan Ross Peter Eastman Eric Brotherson Elaine Partnow Show All…
Ted Grossman Glenn Randall Jr. Richard E. Butler Bill Hickman George Robotham Craig R. Baxley Dean Jeffries Paul Stader Wally Rose Bob Harris Jerry Summers Jack Verbois Ted Duncan Loren Janes Marvin Walters Morton C. Thompson Victor Paul Fred Stromsoe Paul Baxley John Moio Jerry Brutsche Donna Garrett Bud Walls Alex Sharp Ernest Robinson Joe Pronto Patty Elder Richard Washington Joe Amsler
¿Qué me pasa, doctor?, Is was Doc - Whats Up Doc, Ottaaks' päähän?, 왓츠 업 덕, 왓츠 업 닥, Que Se Passa, Doutor?, Is' was, Doc, Ma papà ti manda sola?, Mi van, doki?, On s'fait la valise, docteur ?, מה נשמע דוק, Co dál, doktore?, Essa Pequena é uma Parada, В чем дело, док?, No i co, doktorku?, Ce se întâmplă, doctore?, What's Up, Doc?, У чому справа, док?, Aşka Vakit Yok, Go'dag yxskaft?, La chica terremoto, Какво става, докторе?, چطوری دُکی؟, 爱的大追踪, Què em passa, doctor?
Fuck, that's a perfect movie. This might truly be one of my new favorite films. Every part of it is so damn good– especially Babs and Madeleine Kahn. The car chase is one of my new favorite set pieces. Can't believe they got Ryan Reynolds to play Howard Bannister a whole 4 years before he was born, but he knocks it out of the park.
Just perfect. I know Judy Maxwell is quite literally a screwball character but she feels so uniquely rendered, so one-of-a-kind that it's wild Babs didn't get accolades for it. I don't feel like female stars are allowed to be unabashedly horny and silly anymore! The only move we get of them is to play those feelings as jokingly aggressive a la Leslie Jones or Melissa McCarthy. (who I love of course, but it's not the same!) Like, who could do this role nowadays? Real question. Maybe I'm forgetting people. Who you know fresher than Babs, riddle me that!!
absolutely perfect. aspirational. watching this at a theater tonight is the closest i’ll ever get to how it must’ve felt seeing star wars in ‘77. in the glow of this movie, i feel 12 years old. i’m leaning forward at the edge of my seat, grinning from ear to ear, deeply in love with the movies, in absolute disbelief, dreaming of a time when i’m older and chasing the high of making something so incredible. i’m slack-jawed, whispering “who is THAT” when babs comes on screen. i’m tugging on my mom’s sleeve outside the theater after a third viewing, loudly repeating my favorite parts. she doesn’t engage because she fell asleep three minutes in. movies have the power to change the world
"Propriety; noun: conformity to established standards of behavior or manner, suitability, rightness, or justice. see "etiquette."" or “You have this way of making everything sound reasonable, and then rooms begin to burn and people start to chase people.”
One of the funniest movies I’ve ever seen and pretty incredible to see someone revive witty screwball antics and absurd silent era/cartoon gag chaos and somehow make the obviously elaborate construction of its setpieces feel so smooth and effortless. Was not expecting another goated 70s Ryan O’Neal car chase when I cued this up and Barbra is a total babe as a human Looney Tune. Thank you, Peter. RIP.
Here are a few select reasons why this movie is legally the best comedy I've ever seen (no joke):
- Screwball spirit in a New Hollywood body, so the witty comedy doesn't have to visually clutch pearls, but rather chooses to. The amount of mileage it gets from this decision is absurd.
- Barbara Streisand doing her best Bugs Bunny impression, in a film where half the comedy is basically just live action Looney Tunes.
- Studly man Ryan O'Neal cast against type as the biggest dork in the history of cinema.
- A mountain of MacGuffins, with payoffs greater than you could possibly imagine.
- A 20 minute long comic car chase through San Fransisco that cost $1 million…
judy uses what i like to call “the gilmore technique” for reeling in men in which you talk so fast that you confuse and exasperate them until they have no choice but to fall in love with you. it’s a talent i’ve been perfecting all my life but i know i’ll never be able to execute it as flawlessly as barbra streisand, and i’m ok with that. i just love watching a master at work.
“Oh, there’s nothing to see really. We’re just inside a Chinese dragon.”
In the heat of the 70s new wave, as the industry was pivoting radically to attract the counterculture, Peter Bogdonavich and his largely unsung production designer/wife Polly Platt went the other way, embracing their respective loves of John Ford and Howard Hawks to create an extraordinarily iconoclastic trio of films, bookended by the austere black and white midwestern treasures The Last Picture Show and Paper Moon. In between, they made this lesser praised and far more colorful throwback to the golden age of the screwball comedy.
Ryan O’Neal, fresh off the smash success of Love Story, and a white hot Barbara Streisand looking to work with Bogdonavich, paired up for…