Re: TCM Premieres....
Posted: February 23rd, 2023, 12:47 am
late FRI., 2-23
SOTM Rita Moreno....
2:00
am (ET)
Happy Birthday, Gemini (1980)
1h 47m | Adaptation
A poor Harvard student's romance with a girl hits a rough spot when he realizes, on his 21st birthday, that he's in love with her brother.
Director
Richard Benner
Cast
Madeline Kahn, Rita Moreno, Alberto Derosa
"....The fairly obscure young leads (Robert Viharo, Sarah Holcomb, David Marshall Grant) are good but not unexpectedly unable to hold their own with a master comedienne like Kahn. On the other hand the even less known actor Timothy Jenkins as Bunny's infantile son whom she alternately babies and bullies actually steals the film in an endearing performance. Sadly he appears to never had another major part. Theirs is one of the best smother-mother and child duos created on film and there's even a lovely moment when they sing "Moon River" together off key as Kahn hammers at the piano.
The direction is not particularly good and the film resembles a TV-movie programmer from the era with it's camera shots but the script still has much of the punch of the play and the seven leads are all quite good....."
see: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0080837/re ... =tt_ql_urv
IMDB rates 5.4 out of 10***
SOTM Rita Moreno....
2:00
am (ET)
Happy Birthday, Gemini (1980)
1h 47m | Adaptation
A poor Harvard student's romance with a girl hits a rough spot when he realizes, on his 21st birthday, that he's in love with her brother.
Director
Richard Benner
Cast
Madeline Kahn, Rita Moreno, Alberto Derosa
"....The fairly obscure young leads (Robert Viharo, Sarah Holcomb, David Marshall Grant) are good but not unexpectedly unable to hold their own with a master comedienne like Kahn. On the other hand the even less known actor Timothy Jenkins as Bunny's infantile son whom she alternately babies and bullies actually steals the film in an endearing performance. Sadly he appears to never had another major part. Theirs is one of the best smother-mother and child duos created on film and there's even a lovely moment when they sing "Moon River" together off key as Kahn hammers at the piano.
The direction is not particularly good and the film resembles a TV-movie programmer from the era with it's camera shots but the script still has much of the punch of the play and the seven leads are all quite good....."
see: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0080837/re ... =tt_ql_urv
IMDB rates 5.4 out of 10***