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Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band (1978)
If you did not enjoy this...what the heck is wrong with you?
This film was not supposed to be anything more than what it was, a zany way to link together some of the best music of our time. And it does it well. The performances are wonderful, especially Billy Preston, and Aerosmith. The Bee Gees and Frampton were fine too. People who just don't like the Bee Gees because of disco, or don't like Frampton because he was so idolized in his day need to get over it. Earth Wind and Fire were terrific. And the cast...it is worth watching just for George Burns and Steve Martin. Yes the plot is silly, so is the plot of Weekend At Bernie's, but what a great romp! This film is great fun, nothing more, but that is enough.
A Change of Place (1994)
A lovely escape, and that is what it was intended to be.
A Change of Place is a lovely escape. OK, any chance to look at Rick Springfield is a lovely escape, but this film is really not bad. The shots of Paris don't hurt either. You get enough of Paris to make you long for a week or two there, but it isn't gratuitous. Restraint is the beauty of this film. It certainly could have fallen into the traps that so many of these made-for-TV chick flicks do. But the script and the direction manage artfully to avoid those pit-falls. The plot is more believable than in many made-for-TV films. It doesn't indulge in melodrama. Rick Springfield is a good actor even when he has a bad script, but in this case the dialogue is natural and one cannot help but like Philip, even when he is being curt to the heroine. The characters are not caricatures. Andrea Roth does a nice job playing identical twins without exaggerating the personality differences. Geordie Johnson is really amazing in his portrayal of the menacing Jacques. It had to difficult not to overplay this villain, but Johnson makes Jacques believably threatening without turning him into a preposterous Judith Krantz bad guy. This film is not an iconic dramatic masterpiece, and that is OK because it wasn't meant to be. It is a lovely way to spend a couple of hours. I highly recommend it.