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See You in the Morning [VHS]

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4 star:		(1)
3 star:		(3)
2 star:		(0)
1 star:		(0)

 

 

Excelent movie, one of the most stiking features was that no one was vilified. Realist depiction of two people who simply drifted apart. This movie may not be action packed, but it's very romantic and enjoyable.

I truly enjoyed this movie of a love story and the particular love of a Man for his children.

I thought about this movie, See You in the Morning [VHS], one night while watching something about Farrah Fawcett on TV. Typically, a flash of the film crosses my memory - and then I Google to find out which movie it was - followed by the old click of the Amazon pages.

And voila! I had this old flick - from way back when - with another favorite star, Jeff Bridges. There was no DVD version, but I decided to take a chance on the VHS.

As I watched the movie over again, I was reminded of why I enjoyed it so much back when. Now it isn't one of those truly amazing flicks...but it is a "feel-good" tale of families - families that come together and then are torn apart - and the forces that connect and separate them.

Newly widowed and newly divorced individuals, portrayed by Alice Krige and Jeff Bridges, chart their course through their budding relationship, which leads to marriage too quickly - you see the red flags going up all over the place! - but they are lonely. And they love each other. Their blended families bring a host of problems, the least of which is a shoplifting teen daughter and a son who runs away when he learns that his mother and new stepfather have put the home on the market. This is his father's house! He protests and creates trouble, but eventually everything is sorted out.

Farrah Fawcett plays a beautiful, seductive ex-wife who makes a play for her ex-husband (Jeff Bridges' character) during her mother's final illness - when everyone is gathered together for a mournful goodbye.

Will the characters finally solve their issues, or will the past eventually eclipse the newly developing connections?

The movie was a little choppy in places, going back and forth too abruptly at times...but all in all, the images conveyed the angst of families in crisis and in flux. Four stars.

Laurel-Rain Snow

I first saw this movie many years ago but it still remains one of my all-time favorites. I have a tape of it and view it about once a year. I thought the acting was superb (now made more poignant following Farrah Fawcett's demise) and I found it heartwarming. I think it's a much better film than it generally gets credit for. I particularly enjoyed the little boy coming to terms with his dead father and the new man in his mother's life.

Jeff Bridges and Alice Krige give a fair performance of the trials and tribulations of a couple starting over in marriage. I liked this cute tale of seeing how one marriage ended in divorce, the other in a death and finally the challenge of two individuals coming together.

See Jeff as the whacko psychiatrist who will do any outrageous thing to win his girl. Witness him as he deals with his feelings of loss and his inept attempts at trying to fit in with his new wife and step-children.

Alice does a fair portrayal as an obsessive mom. there are a few moments of zaniness snf light humor but for the most part you will ZZZZZZZZZZZZZ! Watch this on a rainy day when you're not in a serious mood and wish to enjoy the ups and down of a step-family forming.

There seem to have been a trend in the late 80's of movies about wealthy white men whose lives were just not quite what they had hoped. The worst of them was Blake Edward's "That's Life", but this one is a close second. Poor Jeff Bridges' marriage to gorgeous Farrah Fawcett breaks up. He then marries the luminous Alice Krige. He still isn't quite happy. Really, there should be a telethon!

It's not that the movie is bad: all of the main actors are great, and the plot isn't that bad. Even the actors who play the kids (Drew Barrymore, Lucas Haas, Mackauley Culkin) manage not to be moppets. But somehow I just couldn't seem to care that much. As another reviewer said, it's a rainy day movie; but it would have to be seriously rainy day.

There seem to have been a trend in the late 80's of movies about wealthy white men whose lives were just not quite what they had hoped. The worst of them was Blake Edward's "That's Life", but this one is a close second. Poor Jeff Bridges' marriage to gorgeous Farrah Fawcett breaks up. He then marries the luminous Alice Krige. He still isn't quite happy. Really, there should be a telethon!

It's not that the movie is bad: all of the main actors are great, and the plot isn't that bad. Even the actors who play the kids (Drew Barrymore, Lucas Haas, Mackauley Culkin) manage not to be moppets. But somehow I just couldn't seem to care that much. As another reviewer said, it's a rainy day movie; but it would have to be seriously rainy day.