A famous, pampered novelist accepts a bet suggesting that she can't survive one week of living with an average family.A famous, pampered novelist accepts a bet suggesting that she can't survive one week of living with an average family.A famous, pampered novelist accepts a bet suggesting that she can't survive one week of living with an average family.
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More like an 80s sitcom than I'd expected...but still enjoyable.
"Laura Lansing Slept Here" is a most unusual film. This is because later in life, Katharine Hepburn made relatively few films and seemed pretty selective in her roles. Yet, oddly, here she stars in a quirky sit-com sort of film...the sort of thing you just wouldn't expect from her. Now I am not saying it's a bad movie...but it is rather slight and sure looks like a pilot episode of a TV series that never materialized.
The story starts off very poorly (hence my score of only 6) and my advice is to resist the urge to turn off the DVD! It's good...but you need to wade through some relatively shallow writing to get to the better stuff!
When the story begins, you learn that Susan (Hepburn) is a rather clueless lady. She's a successful author but has been living the high life for so long that she's completely lost touch with the average reader...and as a result, her books no longer sell. So her publisher makes a bet...that she can't live a normal life with a normal family. She takes the bet and soon moves in with a Long Island family...complete with various problems. At first, Susan does NOT fit in well...she's bossy and imperious...and clueless. But over time, she grows and the family begins to like her...and she decides to help them in her own special way.
The first 15-30 minutes didn't impress me. But the story DID get better and was actually eventually quite charming. It's too bad that it started off so poorly...and it's a shame that the 'normal' family she moves in with lives in, of all places, Hicksville! Now isn't that subtle?!
By the way, I saw this on DVD and the film did not have captions but really needed them. The picture itself was only fair.
The story starts off very poorly (hence my score of only 6) and my advice is to resist the urge to turn off the DVD! It's good...but you need to wade through some relatively shallow writing to get to the better stuff!
When the story begins, you learn that Susan (Hepburn) is a rather clueless lady. She's a successful author but has been living the high life for so long that she's completely lost touch with the average reader...and as a result, her books no longer sell. So her publisher makes a bet...that she can't live a normal life with a normal family. She takes the bet and soon moves in with a Long Island family...complete with various problems. At first, Susan does NOT fit in well...she's bossy and imperious...and clueless. But over time, she grows and the family begins to like her...and she decides to help them in her own special way.
The first 15-30 minutes didn't impress me. But the story DID get better and was actually eventually quite charming. It's too bad that it started off so poorly...and it's a shame that the 'normal' family she moves in with lives in, of all places, Hicksville! Now isn't that subtle?!
By the way, I saw this on DVD and the film did not have captions but really needed them. The picture itself was only fair.
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- planktonrules
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By what name was Laura Lansing Slept Here (1988) officially released in Canada in English?
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