Who Am I This Time?
by Jonathan Demme
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Actor: Caitlin Hart, Christopher Walken, Dorothy Patterson, Robert Ridgely, Susan SarandonDirector: Jonathan Demme
Brand: Monterey Home Video
Cinematographer: Paul Vombrack
Editor: Marc Leif
Producer: Neal Miller
Writer: Neal Miller
Writer: Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Original Language)
Format: Color, DVD, NTSC
Picture Format: 1.33:1
Running Time: 53 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2006-08-22
Audience Rating: PG (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Model: 300612
Studio: Monterey Video
Movie Reviews of Who Am I This Time?
Movie Review: A Tour de Force for Walken and Sarandon
Summary: 5 Stars
This utterly delightful Vonnegut story, dramatized exquisitely by Jonathan Demme, was first aired as part of the American Short Story series on PBS. (Others of note include Fitzgerald's "Bernice Bobs her Hair" with Shelley Duvall and Bud Cort, Anderson's "I'm a Fool," with a youngish Ron Howard (he still had hair!), and Richard Wright's "Almos' a Man," with Levar Burton (following his "Roots" stardom). Depending on which season, the host was an aged Jimmy Stewart or Colleen Dewhurst. Each was a jewelbox of small treasures.
Set in small-town America in the 50s, the story centers around Walken, a clerk in a hardware store, who is painfully shy and awkward but who blossoms on stage in the community theatre productions where he portrays Cyrano and Abraham Lincoln with aplomb and brilliance, but is too timid to even linger for curtain calls. When Susan Sarandon's character arrives in town, a traveling rep for the phone company installing new billing equipment, she is encouraged to audition for the company's upcoming production of "Streetcar Named Desire" with Walken, of course, playing Stanley. Much like Walken's character, Sarandon's is a somewhat shy and reclusive young woman, good at her job, but never in one place long enough to make personal connections. In her audition held at the high schoo library with the director, Walken stops by and is trapped into reading with her; her first read as Stella was halting and emotionless. But Stanley, who removes his shirt--yes, they would have seen Brando's performance on screen-- while Stella stares in admiration, evokes repressed emotions of our burgeoning Stella into giving the reading of a lifetime! She is cast! Opening night is stellar---but of course Walken disappears after one bow. Sarandon, who is now smitten but has come to know that Walken can only become more "socialized" with a script in hand! Her "device" to keep him after the last night is clever and appropriate to the title and Walken ultimately proposes to Sarandon, as Earnest Worthing and she accepts!
The other company members gather on the sidewalk outside the hardware store to congratulate the couple. When the director asks them if they would consider starring in the next production, Sarandon, with Walken behind her in an affectionate embrace, asks "Who are we this time?" It is warm, romantic, clever (Vonnegut, you know)and quietly and subtley treats the human need to discover our roles. And any viewer who has been involved in community theatre will identify! If "all the world's a stage," then we are, indeed, but small players. We just need the right script! The acting portends the continuing successes of both stars. Walken, following the "Deer Hunter" and Sarandon, after "Rocky Horror Show," continue to give us these "great performances" they did in "Who am I This Time!"
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