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Movie Reviews of Foxes
Movie Review: "A Hole In Your Old Brown Overcoat"
Summary: 5 Stars
Jodie Foster is directed carefully by Adrian Lyne to break out of her typical cerebral mode and thuis give a performnance of real physical depth. You'll notice in almost every scene she's in, she's always touching, feeling, caressing the bodies of the other performers, the boys and girls alike, she can't take their hands off them, even when she's speaking of something else. And yet her need to feel flesh doesn't suggest sexual hunger, it seems instead related to a maternal instinct, for she's the one who's always taking acre of everyone else, even her own mother (Sally Kellerman). The scene where Jodie Foster climbs into bed with sleepy, nerve-wracked Kellerman and reads to her out of Plato--of all philosophers!-- touches something real in all of us who have ever wondered, who is the other half of myself? Yes, now and then Lyne crosses over the border into a realm of David Bailey bad taste, especially in the opening credit sequence that so lovingly explores the bodies of the four sleeping "foxes" who are having a sleepover. It might almost be an erotic thriller from SHOWTIME. However, that's what happens when you experiment, you risk bad taste, and I'd rather have a picture that was all bad taste as long as it was doing something unique. And most of the time the photography serves the characters well, showing the weakness as well as the strength, the maturity as well as the traces of childishness on the faces of all his young stars.
Scott Baio never changes expression in the movie, but we feel we know his thoughts anyhow and can feel what he's thinking in every scene. Part of this is to the credit of an exceptionally literate screenplay. People always brag on about, oh, I don't know, Peter Greenaway, but he's done nothing as good as FOXES. Maybe it's the title, but FOXES doesn't get much credit, does it? Jodie Foster should have gotten the Oscar for this movie, she does better work here than in either of the films for which she actually won Academy Awards. And Cherie Currie is fantastic too, she actually manages to seem like she's in some documentary about her own life, fragile, endangered, willful, ultimately inexplicable like all human beings.
And the whole milieu of an as yet ungentrified LA feels lived in, like an Altman landscape. You really believe these four girls live in this ugly, parched and commercialized space, so that when they visit Randy Quaid's canyon place, it really must feel to them like another world.
Movie Review: RAINY DAY ROCK MOVIE
Summary: 5 Stars
If there were ever a band that should have made a campy rock and roll movie, it would have been The Runaways. Five hot teen girls in a Hard Days Night-esque sort of movie, but with way more controversial, under age sexuality. Never happened. Awww.
BUT- Cherie Currie, who was arguably the hottest of the group, did make one movie in 1980, with a cast of girls that weren't quite as hot as the Runaways... (Jodie Foster etc.) called Foxes.
It's your typical late seventies melodrama involoving some scattered home life stuff, and the connection between that and lots of booze bashes during those tender teenage years. Cheri Currie is the bad girl in this one, and we get what we want from her in this flick. "I'll be damned if I have to sleep with some squares!" she exclaims, as she's whisked away from her friends by a car full of much older dudes.
Scott Baio plays Jodi Fosters friend, and this was way before he was 46 and ridiculous. He was probably about 18 and lame. But whatever. The movie exudes a rock and roll feel. Even though the only real perfomance in the movie was by the band Angel, who may have been the suckiest, lamest glam band ever. (Punky Meadows...your not a chick!) But the movie is still enjoyable, in that seventies party animal type way that we all enjoy... a little bit of goofy dialougue thats fun to laugh at.... and Cherie Currie rocks my face around....
Blllrrrrbbblllllrllrlbbbrlrl!!!!... (I'm not gonna tell you what I mean by that, but I can assure you that it's filthy.)
Anyway, I will recommend this one, for your rainy, lets get something different tonight night movie. It'll hold your interest.
Movie Review: Surprised Me Then With How Accurate It Was...Still Think So.
Summary: 5 Stars
Foxes was a movie that surprised me with how gritty and accurate it was, then and now. I was 22 when this flick came out in 1980, and it quite realistically sums up the end of the 1970s. I recall the 70s as being far from the Happy Face, Brady Bunch era they're often remembered as in pop media these days. My high school experiences from '72 to '76 were much more like the grubby, druggy, post-Watergate-and-60s-hangover jaded teen pessimism portrayed in this movie. Jodie Foster is outstanding as the capable, common-sense teen lead, and Cherie Currie does a great job as the train-wreck tight-jeans doomed sexpot chick who's headed for the trailer park, pimp's stable, or morgue slab--take your best guess which. U-hadda-be-there, I guess. Great girl-point-of-view coda to the 1970s, and very recognizable to those of us who grew up in that era. Gritty and real. Superior movie, redolent of it's time.Movie Review: Fascinating film about teens
Summary: 5 Stars
If you grew up in LA or the San Fernando valley then this is something you won't want to miss. The film is about teens in their senior year in the San Fernando valley who don't understand adults or themselves really. They want to be grown up but they have no idea how to get there.
Jodie Foster and Cherie Curry from The Runaways do an excellent job here as does everyone else. Cherie Curry probably didn't have to stretch much to play her character Annie and Jodie Foster as always does a great job with her character too.
The film isn't polished. Nor is the acting. And it shouldn't be. Some people dismiss the film as inept and low budget. The film would not work if it were high budget and polished with perfect acting by everyone. The acting is natural and that is why this film works.
You won't forget it after seeing it.
Movie Review: powerful teen drama
Summary: 5 Stars
I loved this movie from the moment I saw it for sale at my video store's discard rack ten years ago. I recently received the DVD as a gift and the sound quality is a big improvement over my old vhs copy. I recommend it for performances, the story and the photography. Jodie Foster's monologue toward the end of the film is particularly memorable. Each girl's story line is realistic and the film itself does a good job of capturing teen life in the late 70s before yuppie values took hold. This is NOT a John Hughes film and is a refreshing change for anyone who was subjected that director's teen films in the 80s.