The Other Side of Midnight
by Charles Jarrott
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Actor: Clu Gulager, John Beck, Marie-France Pisier, Raf Vallone, Susan SarandonDirector: Charles Jarrott
Brand: Twentieth Century Fox
Producer: Frank Yablans
Producer: Hawk Koch
Producer: Howard W. Koch
Writer: Barry Sandler
Writer: Daniel Taradash
Writer: Herman Raucher
Writer: Sidney Sheldon
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Original Language), Dolby Digital 1.0; English (Subtitled); Spanish (Subtitled); French (Subtitled)
Format: Color, DVD-Video, NTSC
Picture Format: 1.85:1
Running Time: 165 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2007-03-06
Audience Rating: R (Restricted)
Studio: 20th Century Fox
Movie Reviews of The Other Side of Midnight
Movie Review: Oh yeah, this is bad. Train wreck bad, you DO find yourself watching it.
Summary: 2 Stars
I'll never forget the first time I saw this movie, my late h.s. year w/ my girlfriend of then. At that time it seemed very steamy, romantic and suggestive-the way things are in the real romantic world! HA! A mere few years later when renting it on video, I laughed at how horrible the dialogue was, how preposterous the storyline is, and how gorgeous Susan Sarandon was at that time. Marie-France Pisier is gorgeous. She's why I rented the video years after seeing it, and she was just as smoking as the first view. And for what it's worth, she's maybe the best in this movie, given the material. But that's not saying much. It's just that she'd most capable of playing tops in a hack movie. This movie is good for laughs, Cinemax late nite type soft porn appeal, and for remembering when Sarandon actually looked beautiful and not necessarily like a tart. But the rest is all ham sandwich. John Beck delivers one of the worst performances in movie history, but again, you have to take the material into consideration. It's like watching a soap from the late 60s, early 70s, and as realistic as a 3 Stooges episode. It might be just as funny as well.
Summary of The Other Side of Midnight
Based on the novel by Sidney Sheldon, this riveting story of love and revenge boasts dazzling portrayals by Marie-France Pisier, John Beck and Susan Sarandan in one of her career-making roles.Although American WWII pilot Larry Douglas (Beck) promises to marry French femme fatale Noelle Page (Pisier), he instead returns Stateside and marries well-to-do Catherine Alexander (Sarandon). And once Noelle takes a Greek multi-millionaire (Raf Vallone) as a lover, she plots to shame Larry by arranging for him to be the tycoon?'s private pilot. But in one of many delicious twists of fate in this gripping tale of love, war and betrayal, Noelle and Larry again become passionate, and when Catherine refuses to divorce Larry, the cheating couple seek a murderous revenge.
An over-the-top film co-starring a young and gorgeous Susan Sarandon, The Other Side of Midnight is a deliciously melodramatic adaptation of Sidney Sheldon's sweeping (and often schlocky) novel of the same name. Released theatrically in 1977, the film focuses on the intermingling lives of sexily innocent Noelle (Marie-France Pisier), who has a brief affair with a cad named Larry (John Beck), who ends up marrying wealthy and proper Catherine (Sarandon). When Noelle and Larry meet first lock eyes, he is a dashing World War II American fighter pilot who professes his love for her. But when she discovers she is pregnant with his baby, he is nowhere to be found. So what's a poor girl to do but abort her baby, rise to stardom as one of the world's most famous actresses, and plot revenge against her duplicitous ex-lover? But faster than you can say, "You go, girl!" (or "Oh no she didn't," depending on your point of view), Noelle once again falls for Larry's vaguely porn star charms. But what to do with Catherine, who refuses to divorce her cheating spouse? Make no mistake about it: The Other Side of Midnight is not quality filmmaking and is probably not something Academy Award winner Sarandon even lists on her resume. But she is a joy to watch, even as she has to deliver clunky lines such as, "If you don't love me, Larry, don't lay me." This is not a great movie. Heck, it's not even a particularly good movie. But it's one of those guilty pleasures that you'll watch all the way through, even as you're complaining about the implausibility of it all. --Jae-Ha Kim
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