- Actors: Roddy McDowall, Tuesday Weld, Lola Albright, Martin West, Ruth Gordon
- Directors: George Axelrod
- Writers: George Axelrod, Al Hine, Larry H. Johnson
- Producers: George Axelrod
- Format: Anamorphic, Black & White, Closed-captioned, Dubbed, DVD-Video, Subtitled, Widescreen, NTSC
- Language English, Spanish
- Subtitles: English, Spanish, French
- Region: Region 1 (US and Canada DVD formats.)
- Aspect Ratio: 16:9 - 1.85:1
- Number of discs: 1
- Classification: Unrated (US MPAA rating. See details.)
- Studio: MGM (Video & DVD)
- DVD Release Date: 2 Dec 2003
- Run Time: 105 minutes
- Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
- ASIN: B0000CNY4I
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 85,289 in Film & TV (See Top 100 in Film & TV)
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1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
Format:DVD
I really enjoyed this,I havent seen Tuesday weld in that many things but she really impressed me in this one! She is so funny as Barbara ann & has some great scenes,especially the 'cashmere sweaters'scene! Roddy mcdowall is also perfect as the odd Alan 'Mollymauk',stealing the show later on in the movie as it shifts more to his character.I think it would be classed as a dark comedy as its theme is quite dark,which surprised me as i expected it to be the usual zany 60s comedy! I was quite surprised by the ending too! The only thing is that i wished it would of been made in colour instead of black & white!
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
Format:DVD
Filmmaker George Axelrod described it as 'Love Finds Andy Hardy' meets
'Dr. Strangelove', and that's as good a sum up as any.
Part deeply witty, very dark, surreal satire of American life in the 1960s (very
good), part lowbrow wacky comedy (not as good) part parody of the early
60s U.S. Beach Party movies (starts funny but burns out), and part serious
drama about how screwed up families are (quite strong considering it's
in the middle of all the silliness).
Sort of like Kurt Vonnegut in terms of its constant, head snapping
shifts in tone.
Roddy McDowell (almost 40 at the time!) plays a high school senior, who
is a genius/Puck/gay? figure who gets obsessed (but not sexually) with
making the dreams of a hot, seemingly vacuous blond (Tuesday Weld) come
true. Both are wonderful.
Along the way there's murder, heavy hints of incest, and lots of other
family fun.
Some of it doesn't work, or feels dated, but terrific when it clicks,
and gets big style points for being so brave and unique.
Sort of what you might get if Almodovar made films in the US in the
1960s.
'Dr. Strangelove', and that's as good a sum up as any.
Part deeply witty, very dark, surreal satire of American life in the 1960s (very
good), part lowbrow wacky comedy (not as good) part parody of the early
60s U.S. Beach Party movies (starts funny but burns out), and part serious
drama about how screwed up families are (quite strong considering it's
in the middle of all the silliness).
Sort of like Kurt Vonnegut in terms of its constant, head snapping
shifts in tone.
Roddy McDowell (almost 40 at the time!) plays a high school senior, who
is a genius/Puck/gay? figure who gets obsessed (but not sexually) with
making the dreams of a hot, seemingly vacuous blond (Tuesday Weld) come
true. Both are wonderful.
Along the way there's murder, heavy hints of incest, and lots of other
family fun.
Some of it doesn't work, or feels dated, but terrific when it clicks,
and gets big style points for being so brave and unique.
Sort of what you might get if Almodovar made films in the US in the
1960s.
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10 of 11 people found the following review helpful
An Odd Little Movie
10 Feb 2002
I really don't know what to make of this movie. It seems like an allegory of changing events that were occurring exponentially during that fragile time smack in the middle of the decade of the 1960s. Being photographed black & white it has a feel of some of those high school teenage movies made during the 1950s. However we see many influences from the year it was released in 1966. For instance we see teenage girls clad in bikinis on a beach behind the film's credits. The film also suggests that it may actually be taking place in the near future by some of the set designs found in the high school and in a scene where Roddy McDowall is being psychoanalyzed by a female psychiatrist. Overall the film has a strange feel to it. Even the score by Neal Hefti was not typical of the work he was doing in the 60s. Hefti's score seems to be making some comment on society norms in general, specifically that they shouldn't be taken too seriously. This directly reflects Roddy McDowall's sentiments. And that's where this movie is so odd. Is it a comedy, a parody or is it trying to make some series statement on where we were headed as a country? This movie almost has a "Twilight Zone" feel about it. Tuesday Weld's character seems like she's going to languish in mediocrity. Roddy McDowall seems bent on changing here course for loftier pursuits. McDowall initially seem benevolent. As the movie unfolds McDowall becomes displeased with Tuesday Weld's love interest and he seems bent on undermining here. After a while you begin to wonder if the McDowall character is a figment of the audience's imagination. Or even more challenging is the possibility that the entire story is taking place in the mind of McDowall. For an odd little quirky film it is somewhat disturbing because it is just so unclear what the message of this film is.
11 of 13 people found the following review helpful
This DUCK Was Better The Second Time Around
2 Aug 2004
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Just to see Tuesday Weld (never better!), Roddy McDowall (rarely better)and Ruth Gordon (always wonderful, no matter what she's in) romp through this comic mess is worth the price of the DVD, and then some. I saw this film when it came out in the 60s and didn't like it much, but bought the DVD hoping I might find more in it than I did as a teenager. Turns out I really enjoyed it the second time around. It makes fun of a lot of different things and has an edge about it in the process. School, school administrators, authority figures, parents, shrinks, teenagers, consumerism, fame, dating, social snobism---you name it and it's a target. There are several scenes that are laugh-out-loud funny: Tuesday Weld going out with her father (she lives with her divorced mother), first to a drive-in fast food joint and then on a sweater-buying shopping spree; Harvey Korman in all his scenes. (By the way, what I really find interesting about 60s films is how much people smoked and drank, even in comedies. Lola Albright, very good as Weld's cocktail-waitress mother, just pours herself a stiff one when things get tough. It's almost jarring how that type of on-screen behavior has changed over the last 40 years.) In any event, this is an inconsistent but highly enjoyable film from the "crazy" 60s.
5 of 5 people found the following review helpful
Great dark comedy-not loved enough.
18 Sep 2000
This really is one of those cult comedies that doesn't seem to have enough people singing it's praises. Roddy Mcdowall and Tuesday Weld are marvelous here. Almost everything I've read about it declares it ahead of it's time and I agree 100%. Hats off to George Axelrod for being quite funny and inspiring!
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