clivehacker This movie was filled with great moments. One of the funniest things I have seen in quite some time. This is a misunderstood gem! John Travolta and Lily Tomlin have excellent chemistry on camera and are directed in such a way that you will never see again. This is a one-of-a-kind film. Watch it with your friends, you will be sure to have a good time! There is a treasure trove of great lines and moments in this movie. Since this has not been released on home video, I urge anyone who reads this review to go see it. If your local theater is screening this wonderful film, don't hesitate to pick up some tickets! Take a friend, take a family member. You wont regret watching this rare and intriguing film.

Bman Rman if you like comedies, romantic comedies, or romances raise your hand? if you raised your hand your in for a ride. This little treat features great pacing and classic lines that could only come from such a platonic relationship both john travolta and lily tomlin could deliver. The infamous hot tub scene almost rivals the emotional weight such scenes as marlon brando's last scene in apocalypse now does with it's subtle line delivery. I think what makes this film great is that they put the characters in situations we all can relate to. Travolta's character almost reminds me of a older Holden Caulfield type. I came for the travolta, but stayed for the tomlin.

Payne722 Saw this last night in high-def which only made its flaws that much clearer. Poor John Travolta tries his best, even puts a sunny spin on some of his insipid lines. Lily Tomlin acts like she's in a tranquilizer-induced daze throughout. But what are they supposed to do? I blame this train-wreck on Jane Wagner, who not only wrote this hair-brained cougar wet dream but also directed (essentially a gender-reversed remake of the early '70s William Holden flick, "Breezy") with all the finesse and emotional depth of an Adam Sandler movie. I love unintentionally funny and this film does have its moments, like the classic 'Are you a member of the automobile club' line, the flashes of Gucci and Hermes signs as Lily sleepwalks through the Rodeo Drive opening credits, the tear-jerking forgotten birthday storyline, and that damned address book that just keeps turning up missing. And John strutting around in those black bikini underwear? One reviewer on this site blathered on about his gorgeous physique. I mean, seriously? Zero muscle mass, hair everywhere, distressingly apelike jawline. I watched, thinking that by today's standards he'd be lucky to be cast as Borat's gangly little sister from Kazakhstan. Lily comes off as more physically attractive in this movie which basically says it all. The two of them, stuck on celluloid forever, made up like raven-headed twins, forced to exchange endless, supposedly meaningful glances, the vagrant man-child and the icy socialite with everything but a penis of her own to love. That anyone involved with this ham-fisted clunker thought, even back then, that anything about this was provocative is more unintentionally funny than the movie itself. No, it doesn't score high on my so-bad-it's-good list but it is worth a look once, mostly to understand that occasionally, even back in the day, major studios could release movies as banal and lifeless as the ones they churn out regularly today.

sol **SOME SPOILERS** Bored with life and not wanting to face her friends in any of the big parties and artistic social gatherings that she's used to attending Malibu socialite Trish Rawlings,Lily Tomlin, has opted to down bottle after bottle of pills to put her in a state of perpetual suspended animation. While under the influence Trish sleeps it off while a nasty divorce is finalized with her carousing and cheating husband Stu,Bert Kramer.Going to the drugstore for a new bottle of pills Trish is told by the druggist that she can't have them unless her previous prescription bottle is used up. While Trish is at the counter this local hustler and part time drug pusher Strip Harrison, John Travolta, pops in looking for his good and close friend Craig who works at the pharmacy. Strip finds out that he's been busted by the police the day before for stealing drugs from the store room.A shocked Strip then for some strange reason takes an immediate liking to the middle-age Trish offering to give her free of charge some pills that she was refused. It's then, like a man helplessly under some kind of hypnotic spell, for what seems like like days Strip follows and hounds her day and night in and around her beach-front estate until she finally gives in. Trish ends up giving the hungry and overbearing nudnick a piece of fried chicken to quench his appetite and a towel to dry himself off from a cold dip he took in the Pacific Ocean.Trish being all by herself and feeling that she needs someone to do some handy work around the beach house allows Strip to do part-time work for her. Soon the two begin to fit so well together, even though Trish is some fifteen years older Strip, that they shack up and before you know it start to have a hot and heavy sexual relationship.Strip goes through a number of violent and sudden emotional changes in his affair with Trish who's become very friendly with him that has her at times feel that if she as much as innocently says something that's not to his liking he'll explode and leave her forever! In fact it was actually something that Strip's parents didn't say to him that had a very depressed and heart-broken Strip run away from home. This happens a number of times in the movie that shows that Trish, despite all her hang-ups, is by far the more stable of the two. Later Strip storms out of the beach-house over such menial things like him being embarrassed when Trish had a friend Naomi, Andra Akers, over for drinks. Strip unexpectedly showing up with the groceries has Trish tell Naomi, not wanting her to know that Strip is living with her, that he's the delivery boy! This has a hurt and confused Strip angrily reject a tip which she gave him. Hurt and humiliated by Trish making him look like her houseboy not lover Strip stormed out of the house having, a now repentant, Thrish as well as Naomi scour the sleazy L.A red light district trying to get him to change his mind and come back before he ended up getting killed or killing himself. Strip who had earlier found out that Craig have died of a drug overdose, which he felt was really murder,again comes back to Trish and after making up the two become more and more of an item, in the minds of many Malibu residents. It's later when Trish and Strip go to this big party for a local art photographer where Trish's estranged husband Stu shows up together with his ex-girlfriend Stacie (Debera Feuer) the women who's responsible for her and Stu's breakup. Stacie's now new boyfriend mob drug kingpin Dan Santini, James Luisi, is who Strip believes is the person who had his friend Craig murdered. All this is just too much the for poor and emotionally drained Strip who loses his cool and again storms out of the art exhibit leaving Trish looking like a fool in front of all her socialite friends. Including her estranged husband Stu who up to that time felt that he was the only one doing any cheating. Just when Trish feels that she'll have to finally make a break with the very emotional and unstable Strip a number of unrelated incidents happen that in the end brings the two together in of all places the deceased Craig's home! It's there where Strip, with the acceptance of Craig's parents, was living after he checked out. Strip now throws away all the imaginary roadblocks that kept them apart all this time and finally get it on as equals in the romance department. Believe it or not what turned out to be the two magic words that finally broke the ice between them was "Happy Birthday" which Trish unlike Strips parents remembered.