Dreadfully Boring

Disturbing yet enthralling

Too much about the plot just didn't add up, the writing was bad, some of the scenes were cringey and awkward,

This film is so real. It treats its characters with so much care and sensitivity.

We have become a bit jaded with our access to movies these days. There was a time when I would get home from work really late and just turn on the late show. It didn't matter if I had heard of the movie being shown. I started watching this at 11:00 p.m. and knew I had to get up early. But I was hooked. I had seen Hoffman in "The Graduate" and was intrigued by Mia Farrow. This is such a gentle story, a slice of life. It was so real the way they acted on impulse and then began questioning their judgment. What is really interesting is that there was never anything sleazy or smug about the presentation. The actors are superb and handled it delicately, exposing fears and fragility. Take a chance and get this from Amazon or Netflix. You won't be sorry.

Mia Farrow still had the Vidal Sassoon hairstyle from the Rosemary's Baby in this film production. She played Mary, a single New Yorker who lived in Turtle Bay section of New York City. She meets John played by Dustin Hoffman. They have one night together after meeting in a New York singles bar. When they wake up the next morning, they have a lot to learn about each other. Neither John nor Mary are baggage free. The New York City locations add to the film's scenic appeal. The performances from Farrow and Hoffman are believable and genuine. The relationship between these two characters are realistic and believable. Too bad, we didn't see more of Olympia Dukakis, Marian Mercer, Tyne Daly, and Alix Elias in the film. This film is a character study of an unlikely couple.

I saw this movie in the theater when first released. It so accurately captured that time, when the Sexual Revolution was in full swing, and couples woke up together knowing virtually nothing about each other. That's how this movie opens; they don't even know each other's first name. Through flashbacks to the night before, you see Dustin Hoffman and Mia Farrow trying so hard to be cool yet successful in the frenzied meat market of the Friday night Manhattan bar scene. The morning has the two of them waking together and trying to navigate conversation, while we also hear their thoughts as they agonize over how their last statement must have sounded. The awkwardness of getting acquainted, what to ask, what not to ask, how to say it, is so genuine and palpable. At that time, the West Side was not gentrified the way it is now, so Mia describes where she lives as "a very respectable neighborhood...it only has one or two stabbings a week". The ending is asking each other's name. Sex first, names last, it's 1969.

It had everything going for it, the hottest young stars of the late sixties, Dustin Hoffman and Mia Farrow, fresh from the successes of the Graduate and Rosemary's Baby. The director had just made the huge hit Bullit and the hopes were very high, the two stars were on the cover of Time magazine!It was set in swinging New York, nice photography, cool apartments and clothes, it had to be a hit, right?What went wrong?????? The script, I suppose. They hadn't considered that it had to say something. Instead we are treated to lots of meaningful looks from the leads. Though, they are good looking....Is it a comedy? Hard to tell, funny it wasn't. In fact it's dullsville! Quite embarrassing at times. It seems under-rehearsed, as if the actors had only read the script once. Mia Farrow is too mannered doing her little-old-lady-in-a-girls-body routine. Surprisingly Dustin doesn't overact.This film disappeared from sight. Ms. Farrow hardly mentions it in her biography. Does anyone remember it?