Margot Kidder

“Adapted from his own superb, blackly comic novel of eastern seabord eccentrics, macho mythology and the ultimate Florida face-off, McGuane’s sole film as director is one of the most enjoyable messes ever to be suppressed as unsaleable. His literary talent lionised and his film reputation secure on scripts for Rancho Deluxe, Missouri Breaks and Tom Horn, McGuane here exhibits a totally appealing incompetence as director: the movie’s got all the coherence of an amiable narrative jam-session. Storywise, Fonda wants to set up as a Key West fishing guide; Oates claims a monopoly and threatens to kill him if he does. That’s it…except for the crazy-quilt interaction of cultishly-cast fringe characters, mouthing idiosyncratically lively dialogue and obviously having a ball. Jimmy Buffet’s songs might give you some hook for what’s going on, but the fun’s infectious anyway.” – TimeOut LondonRead More »

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Elliott Gould, Margot Kidder and Mike Farrell star in this clever and wry mystery-thriller reminiscent of such Hitchcock high-adventures as “Vertigo” and “North by Northwest.”
Set in a Rocky Mountain ski resort, honeymooning Harry Kenyon (Farrell) reports his wife Chris is missing to the idiosyncratic police chief, Lt. Rudameyer (Gould). Unexpectedly, Mrs. Kenyon turns up in the company of a priest named Father M acklin (Fred Gwynne), from whom she says she sought solace after an argument with her husband. But the startled Kenyon claims that this woman (Kidder) is not his wife. Maybe she’s not, but th efacts convince Rudameyer that she is an that Kenyon is off his rocker. Is she really his wife? If she’s not, what is she up to? The answers li in a series of plot twists in this brilliantly acted and cleverly written thriller.Read More »

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James Earl Jones and Lynn Redgrave star as mutually insane neighbors in a California apartment house who become romantically involved (she thinks she’s sexually intimate with Puccini, and he periodically wrestles with a demon of his own named Hank). Charles Burnett (Killer of Sheep, The Glass Shield) directed this whimsical, bittersweet 1999 feature, handling the actors with sensitivity, but the preciousness of Anthony C. Winkler’s screenplay, adapted from his own novel, only underlines how much better off Burnett is writing his own scripts (Nightjohn being an exception). With Margot Kidder.
Jonathan Rosenbaum, Chicago ReaderRead More »

When college professor Peter Proud begins to experience flashbacks from a previous incarnation, he is mysteriously drawn to a place he has never been before but which is troublingly familiar. As if drawn to her by cosmic force, he soon finds himself unwittingly in the company of his previous incarnation’s wife. This woman, Marcia Curtis, recognizes in Peter startling characteristics which he shares with her dead husband, Jeff. Even the sound of his voice seems at times to be that of the dead man. Peter becomes romantically drawn to Ann Curtis who is or was his daughter (Jeff and Marcia’s daughter). Recognizing the incestuous nature of their relationship, Mrs. Curtis tries to keep the two young people apart. But how? Must she reveal the terrible secret of the final minutes she shared with her husband in order to keep this man from her (their?) daughter?Read More »