![]() ![]() Never has there been such a vibrant, vivacious, spirited performer and never has there been a role so ill-suited for her talents. That’s a very hard statement for me to make about Barbra Streisand. We don’t know anything about these people other than their attachment to the plot and really, we don’t care. The actors are required to go through pieces of a plot that are so bound up that they have no time to let them build characters. This is one of those movies that just gives you a headache. Then George separates from his wife, quits his job, moves into a warehouse and invites Cheryl to come along.Īnd on and on and on. Then, one night at her place, Freddie accuses his father of stealing his girl. He also discovers that her husband is a firefighter named Bobby and despite this George falls in love with her. One night, Cheryl comes into the drugstore and meets George and falls in love with him. Freddie bawks at this idea because, naturally, he’s in love with her. Meanwhile his son Freddie (Dennis Quaid) is having a fling with a married woman named Cheryl (Streisand) and he demands that it be put to an end. Hackman stars as George Dupler, a nice enough guy who loses his temper and gets a demotion to the night manage of an all-night drugstore. Then some hack stormed in and decided that the only way that a picture like this would sell is if they dumbed down the characters and threw in a few scenes of needless slapstick. Maybe it happened at the screenplay level, who could know? I suspect that it started out as an intelligent story about two people who meet-cute, have some serious issues and fall in love out of need. How did their agents get talked into putting their valuable clients into this mess. ![]() I want to know what two of the most luminous people in the movies, Gene Hackman and Barbra Streisand are doing in this dumb, witless, featherbrained bunch of nonsense. I would have paid good money to have sat in on the production meetings for All Night Long. ![]()
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