Cathardincu Surprisingly incoherent and boring

SincereFinest disgusting, overrated, pointless

Kailansorac Clever, believable, and super fun to watch. It totally has replay value.

Neive Bellamy Excellent and certainly provocative... If nothing else, the film is a real conversation starter.

rgmayne I read some of the other comments and apparently they saw a different movie than I did. This was a horrible awful movie, yet oddly I couldn't turn away from this train wreck. The characters were unlikeable and the plot was obvious. There is no continuity, hair goes from curly to straight to curly again in minutes! Not only was the acting boring, but the actors appeared board as well. In one love scene, Geneviève Bujold is stiff as a bored, then for about 30 seconds she moved (I'm sure the director told her to do something, ANYTHING) followed by more stiffness.The movie seemed dated even for its time. It was released in 1984, but seemed to be more like a 70s porn movie...without the sex.

preppy-3 Lesley Ann Warren owns a bar in LA. She has the habit of sleeping around with almost any man--she's just looking for love. Genevieve Bujold plays a radio relationship talker, Dr. Love. She has severe issues herself with love and sex. Keith Carradine is a drifter who enters their lives...and things go barreling out of control.Very strange but great movie. It's shot mostly at night in beautiful film noirish settings (look at all the smoke in the bar and at a card game). It's also one of the most romantic films I've ever seen. There's a virtually nonstop score by Teddy Pendergrass--soft romantic songs that perfectly set the mood. All the dialogue is about love, sex and relationships but on a very adult, intelligent level. It's full of great lines and sharp insights. It all leads up to a happy ending (sort of).The cast is just excellent. Warren is fascinating--sexy and beautiful but deeply damaged. She shows it through her face and expressions extremely well. Carradine plays the whole role with a blank face--but that fits his character (a compulsive lair). He is so many things to himself and everybody else that he has no identity. Best of all is Bujold in a very difficult role--she has the play a sex radio therapist who is perfectly in control and a woman who has NO control over her life and loves. Everything about her (especially her voice) changes between the characters and you always see both inside her at the same time. She also has a few monologues that are fascinating and funny at the same time. Rae Dawn Chong is pretty good in a supporting role--love her apartment (check out the posters on the wall). Patrick Bauchau is pretty bad in another supporting role--but not enough to destroy the movie.Direction by Alan Rudolph is great. He bathes many scenes in red lights and I LOVE how the camera moves back and forth during a conversation between Bujold and Carradine. He also wrote the great script. One minor complaint--Bujold has a few short, dark fantasies which are never explained. What was all that about? This was a big art house hit back in 1984 and deservedly received a cult following. But it seems to have disappeared since then (the DVD was released with no fanfare at all). Still it's well worth seeing.

shepardjessica Alan Rudolph's second best film (just after Welcome to L.A.) is a jazzy mood piece with romance, rhythm, superior acting and a driving force behind it. That's why R. Altman had this guy working for him. Genevieve Bujold at her most vulnerable and intelligent, Leslie Ann Warren, with real sex appeal and moxy, Keith Carradine his most relaxed since Nashville, Rae Dawn Chong peppy, flirty, and valuable with T.P. music letting them all ride down that street of Eve's Bar.I don't know anyone who's seen this who didn't dig it. With all the junk movies of the 80's, this is right there. Surprise ending, out-of-synch acting styles that blended (SCRIPT and DIRECTOR helping) that is like an ocean breeze on a Saturday night. You just never know!

marymorrissey Although I have to say it's . . . a little disconcerting to rate a movie#1 and I think top 10 lists are like. . . film festival programming, itseems to be an impossible job to make one that is at all sound... Ihave to say nonetheless that this is my favorite movie of all time.Aside from the entertainment value and the sweetness what reallyis profound about this movie is it's view of love/romance. It's veryantiromantic or anti hollywood romance tradition in its wisdom tosuggest that love isn't a matter of finding "the one" as keithcarradine says in the movie "there might be plenty of other peoplewho would fit the bill but we're here and they're not" it's about 2people making a decision to lose it for each other . . . At the sametime AR's films really do seem to have this "one and only" theme,e.g. The Moderns. So. .. it's kind of dialectical or what have you, too. It's too bad his earlier film "Remember My Name" is pretty much offthe map. Starring Geraldine Chaplin and Anthony Perkins it wasanother of his really interesting movies. Just about everything elsesince from him has been such a disappointment. I didn't manageto see "Afterglow" I'm sorry to say. "Trixie" was just a piece ofgarbage. I don't know what happened to this guy . . . sigh