Peter Bogdanovich made 3 hits right in a row: LAST PICTURE SHOW, WHAT'S UP DOC? And PAPER MOON. Then he made this piece of crap. He had one other hit: MASK, but for all intents and purposes, he was a washed up director - really. This picture?: has a horribly uninteresting screenplay. The cast isn't even that interested in it which is why they are uniformly poor in their performances. Cybill Shepard hadn't learned to act as yet and since she's the central character, it kinda depends on her to bring it all together, but without a decent story, that's difficult to do as well. Her little brother is a twit among twits. Mother Cloris Leachman does her best with the colorful character that she's given. The rest of the cast is just "there". There is no passion in this romance which means the loves interests could be eunuchs for all that mattered (and to keep the "G" rating). The only things that actually work are the inanimate ones: the art direction and the costume design - it is nice to look at that and just forget what your ears are hearing.
Review of Daisy Miller
Daisy Miller
(1974)
What are you people thinking of?????????? AKA: This is a bad movie.
2 August 2022