Hi, Mom!
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DVD Cover Information Actor: Abraham Goren, Allen Garfield, Charles Durning, Lara Parker, Robert De Niro Director: Brian De Palma Brand: DENIRO,ROBERT Cinematographer: Robert Elfstrom Writer: Brian De Palma Editor: Paul Hirsch Producer: Charles Hirsch Writer: Charles Hirsch DVD: Region Code 1 Audio: English (Unknown); English (Subtitled); French (Subtitled); Spanish (Subtitled); English (Original Language) Format: Black & White, Closed-captioned, Color, DVD, Full Screen, NTSC, Subtitled, Widescreen Picture Format: 1.33:1 Running Time: 87 minutes DVD Release Date: 2004-12-07 Audience Rating: R (Restricted) Studio: MGM (Video & DVD) |
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Movie Reviews of Hi, Mom!
Movie Review: Funny and Weird
Summary: 3 Stars
The second bizarre hippy satire from a young Brian DePalma (the first being Greetings), and featuring a remarkably spontaneous Robert DeNiro as a young Viet Nam vet new in the city and looking for work. The film (while noticeably dated), is practically an act of radicalism in itself as DeNiro boyishly tries to seduce his neighbors while simultaneously filming the act from his apartment to turn it into a work of explosive pornography. DePalma is clever here; he manages to transform the neighboring windows into fixed frames reminiscent of Hitchcock's Rear Window. Once a failure, DeNiro performs as a reactionary police officer in an all African American theater troupe's educational TV program, in which blacks offer liberal whites the opportunity to experience African Americanism as they beat and rape them in white-face; this sequence is particularly strange and not all together funny until DeNiro arrives as the cop. And finally, he transforms himself once again into a guerilla revolutionary, bombing Laundromats and disguising himself as a bourgeois salesman. This final section is probably the most enjoyable and improvised, though it contains none of the creativity of the first section. The film is interesting if for nothing else, because one gets to witness DePalma and DeNiro stylistically severed from their current work. However, the film seems to try to satirize everything in our society, when in fact it comes across as though it has satirized nothing.