Last of the Red Hot Lovers
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Actor: Alan Arkin, Bella Bruck, Paula Prentiss, Renée Taylor, Sally KellermanDVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Subtitled); English (Original Language), Dolby Digital 2.0 Mono; French (Original Language), Dolby Digital 2.0 Mono
Format: Anamorphic, Closed-captioned, Color, DVD, NTSC, Widescreen
Picture Format: 1.85:1
Running Time: 98 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2003-11-25
Audience Rating: PG (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Studio: Paramount
Movie Reviews of Last of the Red Hot Lovers
Movie Review: Very funny film
Summary: 5 Stars
I'm not going to summarize the film because others already have. But I do want to rescue Last of the Red Hot Lovers (LRHL) from previous comment about this being a tepid, so-so movie. My wife and I have watched this movie on VHS off and on for years and it never fails to get us rolling. I love Neil Simon and this is one my favorite movies of his plays. Neil Simon is wonderful at drawing out the rediculous in common, real-life experiences, and the New York City sacastic Jewish humor is priceless. Who can forget Barney Cashman's mid-life crisis prayers: "....I look today older than yesterday. A few years and it'll all be over. Please God, don't let it be over. Let something terrific happen today. Anything, just as long as it's something, Amen!" Or when cynical, sated, chains-smoking Elaine Navazio (Sally Kellerman) arrives in Cashman's mother's squeeky-clean, paper-thin walls, nothing-can-appear-out-of-place-when-we're-done apartment for a secret liason with Barney. Elaine: Cough...hack...hew...cough......cough....hew..hew....cough...hack...cough....Do you have a cigarette? Barney: A cigarette? My God, wouldn't you rather have some water? Elaine: I can't smoke water.
The scene when Barney smokes pot with the Paula Pentiss character made me choke laughing. "I can't feel my heart. What the hell happen to my heart!"
And fish-restaurant owner Cashman habitually smelling and trying to douse the fish smell from his fingers: Elaine: Again with the fingers. That's the second time you smelled you fingers since I been here. Barney: No, no, I was just cheking my watch. Elaine: Oh, is it time to smell your fingers?
Forget that the movie may not be a perfect adaptation of the play. Most people who see movies never read the written material they're based on anyway. This movie is funny and has more hilarious, memorable one-liners than any other movie I can think of (The Princess Bride is right up there). I've owned LRHL in VHS for years and look forward to getting it on DVD.
Summary of Last of the Red Hot Lovers
In LAST OF THE RED HOT LOVERS, balding restaurateur Barney Cashman (Arkin) thinks he can cure his raging mid-life crisis with extra-marital trysts carried out at his mother?s apartment. Unfortunately, his clumsy attempts at seducing three women in succession ? a fiery, demanding Italian woman, a weird but attractive actress and the repressed wife of a friend - all end catastrophically. Finding that being a ?player? is much more complicated and difficult than he could have imagined, Barney resolves that his boring married existence maybe wasn?t so tedious after all.
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