SparkMore n my opinion it was a great movie with some interesting elements, even though having some plot holes and the ending probably was just too messy and crammed together, but still fun to watch and not your casual movie that is similar to all other ones.

Dynamixor The performances transcend the film's tropes, grounding it in characters that feel more complete than this subgenre often produces.

KnotStronger This is a must-see and one of the best documentaries - and films - of this year.

Kayden This is a dark and sometimes deeply uncomfortable drama

ksf-2 Bill Bixby stars in this weird adaptation from the Broadway show Steambath. It opens with Tandy (Bixby) going into a steambath for the first time, and talking with the odd characters found there. Herb Edelman (Stan, from Golden Girls !) is in there, and is a crusty, disagree-able type. Valerie Perrine is the chick who walks into the steamroom and takes a shower...showing some side-boob. Valerie will go on to be "Samantha" in Can't Stop the Music.... and of course, the Superman movies. Then two gay guys come in and do a dance routine (of course.) Their dance routine is also provocative, and they slowly lose their towels. Don't forget Kenneth Mars, from Young Frankenstein, What's Up Doc?, and my favorite, The Producers. There IS cussing, and plenty of what are now incorrect slurs of the time. Bill Bixby, already 40, runs around in his tighty whities. I knew him from "Incredible Hulk", but apparently he was also in "Magician" series. Stephen Elliot is the old guy, who seems to know what's really going on here. Elliot was the chief in "Beverly Hills Cop", and also Bert in "Arthur". Jose Perez is "Morty", the steambath attendant; I won't say too much about him, or that would give away important plot points.Lots of 1970's references -- All in the Family, psychedelic music, automats, roller skating rink. The writer, Bruce Friedman, was also one of the writers of Splash (1984), and was nominated for an Oscar for that. Very good, but LOTS of talking.. Long, wordy speeches by Tandy and The Attendant. Clever idea, though - some of the experimental stuff from the 1960s and 1970s. The last 20 minutes are one long diatribe by Bixby. So serious. and L O N G. Directed by Burt Brinckerhoff...started as an actor. Looks like he did TONS of TV movies and series.

bkoganbing Steambath starts out with a whole cross section of the human race waking up in a steam room, wrapped in nothing but towels and wondering just how they got there. These people are not an easy fit with each other, but the clue should have been that this particular steam room also has a woman in it, not something usual in the Seventies or now, and definitely not something that the two gay men in the place would have found inviting even with the woman being Valerie Perrine.It's Perrine and Bill Bixby who realize the situation and also the various waiters are not quite human. Where is God in this whole affair and he makes his appearance shortly in the form of Jose Perez, the washroom attendant.What author Bruce Jay Friedman has done is given us a Seventies version of the old after life classic Outward Bound which got two big screen versions under its original title and later as Between Two Worlds. The majestic figures of Dudley Digges and Sydney Greenstreet as the Great Examiner are replaced here by Jose Perez who has a sardonic view of the highest life forms on the pecking order he's created.There is no great moralizing here, death is merely a process whereby you transition from one existence to another. The Steambath is merely a synonym for purgatory like the ocean liner was in those two films Only Bixby really does want to go back and he and Perez get into a bit as to just what he's going back to.Steambath is an amusing and existential take on life and death and man's ultimate place in the universe. Maybe a Steambath is what our souls need, a place to dry out and relax before moving on.

maxley This is an incredible movie. PBS needs to pull this one out of the archives and release this on DVD/VHS just as they have done with "The Lathe of Heaven", another wonderful picture. If anyone knows where this film can be purchased, please let me know.

penny-26 I saw this movie over 25 years ago on TV. Several times as a matter of fact...the late, late, very late show! It really got under my skin. I've been looking for it forever, because the film really made an impact on me. I was beginning to doubt I had actually seen it. The film opens in a steam bath. Bill Bixby, confused in a towel, is told that he has died and the steam bath is the holding pen before moving into the netherworld (there's actually a door leading to eternity (heaven or hell??). He eventually determines that the skinny little Puerto Rican janitor on the other end of the room is God. "God" stands at a computer terminal making fateful decisions for those on earth (ie, Mary drives down Rt 1 in San Francisco, makes a fatal driving error and goes off the cliff). This film was highly thought-provoking and eerie. The entire film took place in the steam bath. Creepy. Makes you think.