Director: Jane Wagner
Starring: Lily Tomlin, John Travolta
Running Time: 105 minutes
Synopsis: In Los Angeles, socialite Trisha (Lily Tomlins) is pursued by beach bum Strip (John Travolta). She is lonely, going through a divorce, and staying at a beach house. Strip comes around frequently, and eventually they start an affair. Strip is a low-level drug dealer, younger than Trisha, and a misfit among her friends, resulting in predictable relationship problems.
What Works Well: A couple of dogs hang around Trisha's beach house, and they are cute. For fans of ogling, Travolta spends most of the movie shirtless, and is often only wearing tight black bikini briefs.
What Does Not Work As Well: A leading contender for worst romance ever made, this is an excruciatingly bad example of tone-deaf writing colliding with shallow and unlikeable characters. The script by writer and director Jane Wagner grinds away with fingernails-on-chalkboard subtlety, Strip's pursuit of Trisha much closer to stalking than romancing. His child-man behaviour underlines the age difference, resulting in her imbecilic embrace of an affair with an annoying, homeless, and immature vagrant. Their chemistry-free, charisma-free, and charm-free relationship unfolds to a generic midnight jazz score, without any character contexts outside the claustrophobia of their dumbfounding interactions.
Key Quote:
Strip: See, the thing is, most of my friends are undependable. Except for Gregg, and Gregg is in jail now.
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