You ever love a book so much and then watch a film adaptation and immediately hate it because a character voice is "wrong"? Or the room doesn't look right? That's my problem here.
There's also the fact that the original story, which focused more on the family dynamics, is kind of stripped down to two minutes and then exploded into a Scooby-Doo plot about mass hysteria and Reaganomics.
The one good thing is that it makes very obvious at book report time who just watched the movie.
I believe watching this short is now a misdemeanor in Florida.
I don't understand you young people. I hope your friend has consulted a good astrologist.
If you look for it, buried under the wigs and sensible skirts, there's plenty to say about the generation gap. Those darn kids with their marijuana, crazy van life, and long hair. Those square suburbanites with their birthday parties, nosy neighbors, and gossip. A good ol' culture clash, with some sexual jealousy, stolen jewels and drag thrown in for good measure.
🎵 Those good ol' boys
They chew you up
And spit you out 🎵
When tasked to watch a Pam Grier movie for week 8 of the 2023 Film School Dropouts Challenge, I chose an unexpected entry. A biopic loosely based on that of Wendell Scott, this Richard Pryor vehicle gives Pam Grier a different kind of role than most she had in the '70s. She plays a loving wife and mom, simultaneously proud and terrified of her husband's career.…
