Synopsis
A female bicycle messenger is looking for love in New York City and becomes involved with two very different men.
A female bicycle messenger is looking for love in New York City and becomes involved with two very different men.
I need a criterion collection of this just so i can stare at tom berenger in 4k
25-year-old grad student Catherine Woods (Judy Kahan) works as a bike messenger for Rush It deliveries in New York, balancing life on the bike, a budding romance with artist Richard (Tom Berenger) and friendship with upstairs neighbor Byron (John Heard).
I watched Gary Youngman's other directorial effort, Doorman, recently and got curious what this film, which was made almost ten years earlier and is stacked with talent, was all about. And what it's all about is really not my thing...
Objectively, it's not a bad movie. It's just a very slow moving peek into the life of a young woman in New York in the late 70's. The music is a lot of fun, brought to us by Buzzy Linhart, the acting feels solid and it's got a story to tell. It's just meanders way too much getting there.
When I say I watch bad movies for hot people I mean Tom Berenger.
Henny Youngman's son directs a 78-minute mumblecore film about bike messengers in Manhattan, starring some girl-you-went-to-Sarah-Lawrence-with's mom and Tom Berenger.
This started off strong with a very likable main character but there is no character development and there are way too many montage scenes in place of plot progression.
I will watch every bicycle movie.
This was fun when it was about the weirdos a bike messenger meets on the job — like the group of old ladies sewing American flags — but after 20 minutes it’s just about how her shitty artbro boyfriend is shitty.
My biggest takeaways are the brown and yellow Rush It Messenger Service shirts that I’m totally going to bootleg and the great line:
This is the 1929 of my life
I’m assuming it’s referencing the stock market crash?? Been trying to decide the closest equivalent someone could use four decades later and it’s clearly
This is the 9/11 of my life
I’m pretty sure if I told you a feature length movie had five full-length musical montages you’d prob say hm that’s too many montages. Well that’s how many this has, and it’s only 73 minutes!
I think I’ve watched all the bicycle movies,
this is the 9/11 of my life.
Come for young John Heard, stay for getting seduced by Charles Levin in a kitchen as a dentist named Dennis.
A deep cut NYC 70s movie without making it about disco? Sign me up.