Rich and Famous

Rich and Famous
by George Cukor

Rich and Famous
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Actor: Candice Bergen, David Selby, Hart Bochner, Jacqueline Bisset, Steven Hill
Director: George Cukor
Brand: Warner Brothers
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Original Language), Dolby Digital 1.0; English (Subtitled); French (Subtitled); Portuguese (Subtitled)
Format: Closed-captioned, Color, DVD-Video, NTSC, Subtitled, Widescreen
Picture Format: 1.66:1
Running Time: 117 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2007-11-06
Audience Rating: R (Restricted)
Studio: Warner Home Video

Movie Reviews of Rich and Famous

Movie Review: Godawful
Summary: 1 Stars

Though released in 1981, this seems horribly dated today, with the male leads all but invisible and the storyline unsure whether to be a comedy or a drama. It's neither. It's just plain awful. The two women, Candace Bergen and Jacqueline Bisset have zero chemistry, so why they are lifelong friends is a mystery here. Mostly they scream at each other in supposed jealous rages over their careers and men. Made by a Hollywood dinosaur, George Cukor, this one is of use only as a curiosity piece. I found it agonizing.

Summary of Rich and Famous

Liz and Merry Noel become friends as college roommates and their friendship endures over the years. Liz becomes a respected novelist. Merry Noel marries, has a daughter and writes, too: so-called trash fiction that becomes enormously successful. Their story begins in college and jumps ahead some years at a time to show their relationship with each other and those in their orbits as they grow and mature.
The idea of pairing two of the hottest contemporary actresses with a Golden Age Hollywood director--in a remake of an old Bette Davis vehicle, no less--makes Rich and Famous a curiosity straddling two ages. Jacqueline Bisset, then at the height of her sex-symbol status, stars with Candice Bergen, who was morphing from glamourpuss to comedienne in the wake of her hilarious Starting Over turn. They play the roles first essayed by Bette Davis and Miriam Hopkins in the 1943 Old Acquaintance: Bisset is the serious writer, Bergen the flighty married pal whose trashy novels become bestsellers. The friendship between the two women, rivals and confidantes, remains as their professional and romantic circumstances change. George Cukor, who directed his share of similarly themed "women's pictures" during his long Hollywood career, made his final film here, creating a civilized tone to support the conversations between the two women (and indulging in one cheeky "Mile High Club" sequence on a plane). The movie played like a breath of fresh air in 1981, especially in the way it gave a couple of underappreciated actresses a chance to shine, although it does look a bit dated now. In particular, the males in the film (David Selby as Bergen's hubby, Hart Bochner as a Rolling Stone reporter) are notably underwhelming compared to the leading ladies. (A young Meg Ryan pops up for a while as Bergen's daughter.) The memorable final sequence feels earned, even more by the actresses than by the movie itself --Robert Horton

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