KnotMissPriceless Why so much hype?

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Salubfoto It's an amazing and heartbreaking story.

bkoganbing For Pete's Sake has Michael Sarrazin and Barbra Streisand as a married couple in Brooklyn trying to make ends meet. They've got their debts and maybe carrying a bit too much. Sarrazin drives a cab and gets a stock tip about pork belly futures from his dispatcher Louis Zorich who's a pretty sleazy sort. I couldn't wrap myself around the concept of taking financial advice from him any more than from that other noted cab dispatcher Louis DiPalma.But Sarrazin believes him and tries to get the money and when he fails Barbra goes to a loan shark. When the great financial coup doesn't go off on schedule she's got to pay. Of course she can't and her debt is passed on to various parties who have her doing all kinds of crazy things, all for her husband Pete's sake.There were some good performances, some funny moments, but the whole thing seemed more silly than funny. Besides the stars the ones to watch out for are Molly Picon as a Jewish Madame, Estelle Parsons as Streisand's sister-in-law, and Richard Ward as the ever helpful building superintendent where she and Sarrazin live.Barbra's fans will like it, but it's far from the best film she ever made.

shango7200 Audiences still had "What's Up Doc?" fresh in their minds by 1974, so on that alone--I think the movie did OK at the box office. But the differences are MANY; mainly the script which feels too much like a sit-com or a (bad) slapstick comedy. The cast of FPS is a mere shadow of the WUD cast, and Barbara - who looked pretty snazzy & sexy in WUP?, look horrible in that short wig in FPS (was it a wig or a bad haircut from Jon Peters?). FPS is not all that bad , and has some funny bits (the dog chasing her on the subway) but people expecting this to be "What's Up Doc, Part 2" were let down. The title sequence animation / song in the opening credits is cute enough.

kenjha Struggling financially, a young couple needs quick cash to invest in pork bellies, prompting the wife to concoct a series of wild schemes to raise the cash. This is basically a vehicle for Streisand to engage in some zaniness, trying to duplicate the success of "What's Up, Doc?" a couple of years earlier. Unlike the latter film, however, this one does not have a particularly inspired script. Babs tries hard, but is unable to raise the material beyond a level of mild amusement. To pay off loan sharks, she goes through a series of jobs, including prostitution (taken rather lightly), each meant to setup hilarious situations but the payoff isn't there.

Jon Torino Barbra was 31 when she made this film. Her hair (a poor short-haired wig) was done by her then boyfriend,Jon Peters, and her outfits remind me of her "stoney end" phase (remember that?). This movie was released in 1974. Her co-star is 'ok' but he's no Brad Pitt. He does have one sexy bathtub scene. If you look quickly when he pulls Babs into the tub you'll see he is wearing a pair of white bikini briefs (poor editing, they should have cut that).Now a little outdated (I'm writing this in the year 2000) the film is funny overall with some greater funny moments.Barbra shows a real flair for comedy. I wish she had done more character acting in other films because in this one she dons a blond curly wig, big yellow hat and oval sunglasses then screams and runs like a little girl. She literally had me laughing uncontrollably several times.The plot is sort of hokey: her husband's brother and pompous wife insinuate Babs (Henry) conned her husband into an early marriage which robbed him of a good college education and a decent job (he's a taxi driver). They get an inside stock tip on 'pork bellies' and she borrows $3,000 from the mob. The tip doesn't pay off at first and her contract is sold to more and more crooks - and with each sale she screws up her assignments. She goes to work for a little old lady (Mrs. Cherry) who sends men clients to her apartment and Babs accidently breaks the nose of her first client then nearly kills the second, a judge who is taxi'd to the N.Y. apt by her husband. This second client is hidden in a trunk and revived in the back of a flower delivery truck then placed back in the taxi when Henry's husband isn't looking.The whole movie goes on like this - and she ends up in several funny situations, even unwittingly carrys a bomb (the wig, hat and glasses). She turns the package over to an undercover cop and is promptly arrested but runs away screaming through Central Park claiming he is a pervert (the cop is dressed in identical women's clothing)Eventually her contract is sold to a cattle rustler who fills up a motor-home with stolen cattle for delivery in downtown N.Y. She has an accident and the one lone bull and all the cows get lose running through New York streets and into shops. By the end of the picture the stock tip pays off and they end up rich and happy.If you like Barbra you'll like this movie. I say 'thumbs up'!