26/28
Not from 1979 or earlier
Scenario
Sheryl Bradshaw, a single woman looking for a suitor for a hit 1970s TV show, chooses charming bachelor Rodney Alcala, unaware that behind the man’s kind facade lies a deadly secret. Some of Sheryl’s bad experiences as an aspiring actress mirror those of Anna Kendrick. The comment about Sheryl’s breasts is “taken verbatim from something that happened to me when I was 19.” The coins stolen from the laundry room are modern rooms.
Sheryl: I feel watched
We can see 3 different Washington heads. They would be National Park coins and later coins. Rodney: Do you feel watched?
Referenced in CTV News at Six Toronto: September 8, 2023 episode (2023)
I Don’t Mind Doing It Written by Morris Bailey Jr. & Lee Phillips Performed by Jackie Lavant & The Fashions Courtesy of Jamie Record Co. I ended up feeling very frustrated watching this movie because I thought it had a really good hook.
There are some very effective sequences and it’s very well shot but it’s so uneven that I couldn’t help but feel disappointed with the final product
In the end, the whole thing ends up feeling like a series of short films of which only a few I found interesting and when put together into one movie it ends up feeling repetitive. That’s not to say that it’s not effective – it’s absolutely apt in its depiction of violence against women but also in the way it depicts 70s sexism. The main thing that intrigued me in this movie was the idea of the game show part and it ended up feeling very undercooked and in the overall narrative it ultimately didn’t amount to much.
