Wonderful romantic comedy with two of our brightest comedic stars.
Newton Davis (Steve Martin) is a bored, jilted architect who has little to no zest for life left in him. Gwen (Goldie Hawn) is a beautiful waitress with a checkered, ambiguous past who manages to catch the fringes of Davis's imagination by flaunting her various and sundry eccentricities and hinting just the tiniest bit, to the true person beneath the visage she has assumed.
Through a series of strange, fantastical, desperate decisions Gwen and Newton find themselves in a very precarious situation.
It is not long before Gwen becomes the very cynosure of Newton's life, and before he knows it, he's tasting the worm and wriggling helpless upon the hook that is Gwen.
I love this movie and watch it often. It is uplifting and creative. It has been called "campy" by some, but I find no camp in it. I have known people very much like Gwen's character, and realize the reality she portrays in this production. It reminds me of many beloved people from my past.
It gets a 8.8/10 from...
the Fiend :.
Newton Davis (Steve Martin) is a bored, jilted architect who has little to no zest for life left in him. Gwen (Goldie Hawn) is a beautiful waitress with a checkered, ambiguous past who manages to catch the fringes of Davis's imagination by flaunting her various and sundry eccentricities and hinting just the tiniest bit, to the true person beneath the visage she has assumed.
Through a series of strange, fantastical, desperate decisions Gwen and Newton find themselves in a very precarious situation.
It is not long before Gwen becomes the very cynosure of Newton's life, and before he knows it, he's tasting the worm and wriggling helpless upon the hook that is Gwen.
I love this movie and watch it often. It is uplifting and creative. It has been called "campy" by some, but I find no camp in it. I have known people very much like Gwen's character, and realize the reality she portrays in this production. It reminds me of many beloved people from my past.
It gets a 8.8/10 from...
the Fiend :.