A repressed, middle-aged divorced U.S. Greek meets a young singer through a dating service and becomes smitten.
Director: Robert Altman
Stars: Paul Dooley, Marta Heflin, Titos Vandis.
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0079710/
Watched online, ok print.
12 songs in the Soundtracks.
Marta Heflin is skinny & not pretty, niece of Van Heflin. Per IMDb trivia, the role was originally Sandy Dennis, but PD was allergic to the cats she brought to rehearsal.
Ted Neeley, JC in JC Superstar ('73), plays the a-hole leader of the singing group to which MH belongs. I don't like his singing voice when he goes high.
Didn't like the characters, didn't like the music.
I suppose the point was the meeting of 2 cultures: the furniture sales Greek family influencing PD, and the free-love singing group domineered by their leader influencing MH. But I don't care. I don't care that they got together at the end. Especially since their last scene has them duplicating what the secondary (no dialog) couple was doing at the beginning of the film, and by the end the secondary pair almost came to blows. So it wasn't a message of hope. It was cynical. I don't see the point of dragging us through the lives of unattractive people and top it with a cynical ending.
I got very anxious/annoyed for the thing to end.
Lion's Gate, dir. Altman; 4
