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Tenure (2008)
A nothing movie
Entropy is increasing, the physicists say. Eventually the universe will run down. Nothing will happen since the energy level will be uniformly constant throughout the universe. For a preview of what life will then be like watch this movie.
Bob Gunton and Rosemary DeWitt are fun to watch. The rest of the cast might as well have been represented by cardboard cutouts.
Multiple plot lines start and then are left hanging.
One character is searching for Sasquatch; a furry man-like creature is seen several times, but then . . . nothing.
Someone accuses Charlie of not lifting the toilet seat. This is not funny, but you expect it to pay off later, but then . . . nothing.
Charlie is suspected of being gay, though he isn't, and this seems possibly a set up for Charlie's getting tenure based on his mistakenly being thought gay, but then . . . nothing.
Someone is selling a drug to cure E.D. A small truckload of the stuff is delivered to an old folks home. You expect something raunchy and hilarious. The only thing that happens is some of the old timers fight over the boxes.
Previously I thought of movies as "good" or "bad". Tenure requires a new category. This is a "nothing" movie.
Paper Moon (1973)
What movie am I confusing "Paper Moon" with?
TCM showed "Paper Moon" a few nights ago. I taped it and just finished watching it. Loved it. Who couldn't?
Here is a scene I thought I remembered being in the movie, but which I found (to my great disappointment) was not:
Tatum O'Neal (I think) works in a carnival, selling tickets. There is a scene where a rube buys a ticket and Tatum cheats him in making change. Her ticket booth is up high; the rube cannot clearly see the bills being counted out.
The scene goes by very quickly. I wanted to see it again, because a clerk recently tried to cheat me in a similar fashion and I wanted to compare her technique with Tatum's. Can someone help me? What movie have I confused with "Paper Moon"?