(Sheepish look)
OK, I’m a little late to the party here. Can’t really explain why it took me 50 years to get to this one, but there you go. It was worth the wait.
File under: How did this ever get made? Directed by Hal Ashby and written by Colin Higgins, Bob Evans was the head of Paramount at the time, and he liked the script. God bless him.
Let’s see, so what do we have here? A 79 year old woman who picks up a 20 year old boy at a funeral both have gone to simply because they enjoy funerals.
Turns out the boy likes her back. When he’s not staging elaborate faux suicides for his mother, they sleep together. And it’s kinda beautiful.
After falling in love, he finds out she’s a holocaust survivor. They get together for her 80th birthday and she commits suicide.
The end.
In the brittle milieu that passes for culture today, who do we cancel first? Everyone involved, I guess. How dare they?
Did I mention the 80 year old woman is Ruth Gordon, who was 75 in the movie? And that she’s really quite beautiful? So full of life as to be combustible.
Oh, and BTW – Cat Stevens did the soundtrack.
More please.