Touches You

It is not deep, but it is fun to watch. It does have a bit more of an edge to it than other similar films.

One of the worst ways to make a cult movie is to set out to make a cult movie.

While it is a pity that the story wasn't told with more visual finesse, this is trivial compared to our real-world problems. It takes a good movie to put that into perspective.

I was a big John Candy fan through the 1980's. In this movie, John Candy plays TV producer Jack Gable who is in love with his leading actress played by the stunningly beautiful Emma Samms and struggling to keep creative control over his series from his co-producers played by Jerry Orbach and Renee Taylor. Meanwhile, he keeps stumbling quite literally into Mariel Hemingway as the struggling potential actress trying to get a role on his show and as a rival TV writer named Fetterman tries changing his universe even with his own typos creating havoc. After mysteriously ending up on his show, he keeps trying to write the plot to win Samms's heart through gleefully far-fetched fantasies, but he instead keeps running into Hemingway. The best parts of this movie are its ability to parody the soap opera theme (brain tumors, favorite sons, absurd declarations, diabolical scheming, series contradictions, etc). Samms seems to enjoy herself in this movie playing a conniving vixen while the versatile Hemingway plays the All-American girl-next-door type with a bit of whimsical awkwardness, but much of the comedy comes from the male co-stars, particularly Raymond Burr as the head of the Hedison clan. Playing the comedy straight, Burr delivers almost every line as a catchphrase."Delirious" is a sort of "Twilight Zone" affair in which a soap mogul is haunted by his old characters, even those he has killed off. ("Len? Len? We killed him off two seasons ago!") Even though this side of the plot is barely explored, what we have left is a "Brady Bunch"-level fantasy-comedy with all the raucous humor of a spoof of a daytime drama. At its core, "Delirious" is a love story linking Candy with Hemingway to discover what he really wants instead of what he thinks he wants. It has a strong cast, a script that bounces from the weak to the absurd to the amusing and an enterprising premise. The movie "Delirious" gently penetrates the issue of what could happen when a man or woman can simply "write the outcome" of their inner and outer world.Overall rating: 8 out of 10.

This is a really good movie to watch if you like silly/fun movies, parody movies, or john candy. It has a great blend of comedy, wit, action and all sorts of other things. I am pretty surprised by the low rating. Its not the best movie by any means, but greatly above standard and really enjoyable. The actors/actresses were funny and did their parts nicely. Its not exactly original though, and it doesn't look like it had the best budget, but it does what its suppose to.. make us laugh. Definitely worth checking to see if your video store rental has it. I rate it 7/10. Rated PG for sensuality, crude humor, language and comic violence.

Many people on IMDB say this movie is boring and that there is no laughs. That is ridiculous! This movie is great! OK it's not the most original idea for a movie, but I'm a real John Candy fan and he makes me like it. Basically, this movie is about a writer Jack Gable (Candy) who writes for a popular TV soap opera called 'Beyond Our Dreams' when one day, after being knocked out, he appears in his own soap and is able to write what happens in it! Candy carried this movie well with support from the lovely Mariel Hemmingway and Emma Samms, but I feel I have to note that the ending to this film was a complete let down and just too obvious! But overall I enjoyed this perfectly watchable movie from THE LATE, GREAT JOHN CANDY! 8/10

Built upon the „Groundhog Day` pattern, „Delirious` drives in a completely different direction soon. The idea is not mainly to alter the main character step by step but to parodize run-of-the-mill soap operas with everything they've got in common. And in this respect, the movie does a good job. The plot of the soap turns really crazy after some time and this fact itself is an ironic side-swipe at the industry. After years, it's impossible to keep some realism in the developments of soap characters. The idea that despite all this, the fictitious world has its own virtual level and that the stories go on, even if the audience doesn't watch, is also interesting. And then, the gags are held together by a number of inside jokes of a kind that is actually NOT found in an ordinary soap opera.As usual, John Candy is completely displaced here, but the difference to other movies is that here, there is not much he can ruin. The film is great not because of him but in spite of him.Unfortunately, the ending comes up to the expectation you have about John-Candy-films. The fictitious narrative level is destroyed, we're back to reality. That's the ending one expects. Surely, it would have been easy to produce a more witty, more brilliant ending, but maybe this predictability is part of the game. Soap operas are like that...