"Sincerely Yours" is a sappy, sentimental story about a successful pianist who has everything one could want, but loses his hearing. He becomes so despondent that it takes some tough advice from a friend to snap him out of it. It took the total failure of this one-dimensional film to snap Warner Brothers out of its illusion that Liberace might be suitable for playing the leading man in a Hollywood film. It's not like he was Rock Hudson. Even in his own time, Liberace was a gentle-seeming soul who had as much machismo as a teddy bear. He says his lines with as much conviction as someone wondering to himself if he should wear blue socks or black socks for the day.
The story doesn't do him any favors either. In the midst of his depression, he questions the existence of God. Using binoculars, he watches the people in the park far below his ivory tower and plays God in their lives. One of them is a little crippled boy who questions the effectiveness of prayer.
The ending is predictable. And as moving as the discovery that the waiter placed your order correctly.
The one thing the film does have going for it is the music (classical and otherwise) that is Liberace's forte. He was a talented musician. I guess Warner Brothers next coup would be to cast Yehudi Menuhin as a violinist who broke his fingers in a door closing accident.
"Sincerely Yours" is suitable only for true fans of Liberace who don't mind seeing him misused in glorious Warnercolor.
The story doesn't do him any favors either. In the midst of his depression, he questions the existence of God. Using binoculars, he watches the people in the park far below his ivory tower and plays God in their lives. One of them is a little crippled boy who questions the effectiveness of prayer.
The ending is predictable. And as moving as the discovery that the waiter placed your order correctly.
The one thing the film does have going for it is the music (classical and otherwise) that is Liberace's forte. He was a talented musician. I guess Warner Brothers next coup would be to cast Yehudi Menuhin as a violinist who broke his fingers in a door closing accident.
"Sincerely Yours" is suitable only for true fans of Liberace who don't mind seeing him misused in glorious Warnercolor.