F&B1989: Last Exit to Brooklyn

The plot was kinda loathsome (a basic combination of the “all gays must die” and the “all promiscuous women must die” tropes, so that wholesome Ricki Lake and Some Guy could have a baby (hakuna matata)), but it’s not badly made.  I mean, not that badly.  A bit sweaty, perhaps, and So Much Drama.

This film wasn’t on g_monte’s list of 1989. I was going to do Atom Egoyan’s Speaking Parts, but it didn’t arrive yet.  So I made a substitution.

Last Exit to Brooklyn. Uli Edel. 1989.

F&B1986: Peggy Sue Got Married

I was so confused watching this, until I realised that I thought that this was going to be a different Coppola film. I was thinking about “One from the Heart”, which I remember seeing during a vacation in Oslo in… 82? With one of my sisters. I must have been 13 or 14. I remember being kinda mesmerised. Neon, scrim dissolves… But I don’t remember anything about the plot.

But this isn’t that movie. I don’t think I’ve seen this before. Of course, there isn’t a lot to remember about this movie. It’s kinda devoid of interest. Perhaps Coppola wanted to make Back to the Future III, but didn’t get the contract.

Peggy Sue Got Married. Francis Ford Coppola. 1986.

Even more fizzvo “beer adjacent”