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For Pete's Sake

1977, Movie, NR, 90 mins

For Pete's Sake: Review

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A feeble attempt to do a Hawksian 1930s comedy in the 1970s. The shame of this was that coauthors Shapiro and Richlin both had several light comedies in their resumes (PILLOW TALK; OPERATION PETTICOAT; THAT TOUCH OF MINK; THE PERFECT FURLOUGH; etc.). Streisand is a big-mouthed Brooklyn housewife married to poor sap Sarrazin, a cabbie who is desperate to go back to school and out of the awful New York City traffic. He is tipped that the USSR and the US are about to conclude a deal that will send the price of pork bellies soaring. Streisand and Sarrazin do not have enough money to buy a package of bacon, much less thousands of pork bellies. Streisand goes to Hollander, a loan shark, and borrows $3,000. The Americans and the Soviets cannot come to terms, and the loan contract is sold to local madame Picon. Picon tries to get Streisand to hook in the afternoons to pay off the debt. Streisand refuses but gets involved in a couple of other underworld "pranks." (One includes dropping off a time bomb to eliminate some hoodlums, and the other is running rustled cattle into Manhattan.) Eventually, pork bellies go up, and Sarrazin is able to buy Streisand out of all of her problems. Although this didn't seem to hurt Streisand (who was coming off the phenomenally successful THE WAY WE WERE), it did nothing for Sarrazin's career, which went from this into such clunkers as CARAVANS; DOUBLE NEGATIVE; and A NIGHT FULL OF RAIN. Streisand already perfected all her mannerisms and mugging by this time and uses them all. It took several years for her to shed them and learn how to act again (as in YENTL). The man in the theater is played by Streisand's long-time manager Erlichman as a private joke. Funny it was not. Miller does a cute drunk driver bit, a reprise of the same character he played many years for Jack Webb's "Dragnet" series. Sports commentator Broun does a short stint as a judge who wants to bed Streisand. Kovacs produced terrific photography. Changing the title from "July Pork Bellies" did not help, and everyone concerned with this picture would be wise to omit it from their credits. It grossed less than what Streisand earned for some of her other films. leave a comment
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