Cannery Row
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Movie Reviews of Cannery Row
Movie Review: Cannery Row
Summary: 5 Stars
I'm so glad I found this movie on DVD. It is 1 of my favorites.Movie Review: Bought It For the Piano Music
Summary: 4 Stars
I just remembered a lot more piano music in it, but succeeded in replacing the movie that I had on VHS and couldn't play any longer.
I don't remember reading this Steinbeck like I do F. Scott Fitzgerald's The Strange Case of Benjamin Buttons.
I was a junior in high school. We read The Great Gatsby. We even read allowed some of it IN CLASS. Then we all wrote repoorts on it. It was a rousing success.
The our teacher insisted that we read something else by Fitzgerald. We all balked so the teacher assigned short stories by Fitzgerald by rows. Our row got Strange Case of Benjamin Buttons. After The Great Gatsby, I panned it saying stuff like, "I can't believe the same author wrote both? Are we really supposed to believe this?"
Then they come out with a movie about it.
Movie Review: after the fish leave
Summary: 4 Stars
Finally out on DVD, this is a sweet movie, a little too fond of itself, but sweet. If you go to Monterey now, you can barely move for the stores and the rest of the junk -- it was all better abandoned..... The original Cannery Row stories were ok -- Sweet Thursday, the sequel, is excruciating. You have to really be able to deal with the whore with the heart of gold stuff, Steinbeck at his worst.
However, the best thing about this movie by far is Debra Winger, who was at her most unbelievably, staggeringly, beautiful. She plays the role as an impossible innocent/know-it-all -- a complete male fantasy. But it doesn't matter, none of that matters. Generations yet unborn will scarcely believe that such a creature once walked upon the earth -- but thanks to the magic of film, here is the proof.
Movie Review: Likable Steinbeck Adaptation
Summary: 4 Stars
If memory serves, "Cannery Row" had a troubled history making it to the screen. Raquel Welch was fired from the film and subsequently sued the studio. A myriad of production and release delays ensued. When it finally made it to theatres it was met with tepid critical and commercial reaction. Viewing it some twenty-five years on my response is that this is a nice film. My only real criticism is that it drags on occasion but sails by on good vibes. The film is populated with affable eccentrics that tug at your heart portayed by terrific character actors like M. Emmett Walsh, Audra Lindley, and Frank McCrae. The central romance between Nick Nolte's Doc and Debra Winger's Suzy is palpable and emits definite electricity. "Cannery Row" is a sleeper well worth pursuing.Movie Review: Steinbeck at it's best
Summary: 4 Stars
The supporting cast almost runs away with this film, a compilation of Steinbeck's two novels, Sweet Thursday and Cannery Row. Nolte and Winger both do an outstanding job of re-creating the time at the cannery row of yesteryear. The music is fantastic, and I have tried to find the sound track but have been unable to locate it. Audra Lindley does a fantastic job as the "madam" and the "boys" make the film fun and enjoyable to watch. It's just a really good yarn, as the layers of personalities unfold. I highly recommend it for the entire family. Cinematography also excellent, you can almost smell the surf and kelp beds on the beach.