BLAME IT ON RIOÂ (18)
D:Â Stanley Donen
Sherwood (Stanley Donen)
USA 🇺🇸 1984
100 mins
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Comedy
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W: Charlie Peters & Larry Gelbart [based on the screenplay
'Un Moment d'Egarement' by Claude Berri]
DP: Reynaldo Villalobos
Ed: George Hively & Richard Marden
Mus: Ken Wannberg
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Michael Caine (Matthew Hollis), Joseph Bologna (Victor Lyons),
Valerie Harper (Karen Hollis), Michelle Johnson (Jennifer Lyons), Demi Moore (Nikki Hollis)
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During the early 1980's, Michael
Caine made some poor choices undertaking certain roles, as he has often admitted to, choosing scripts based on the filming location and practically globe-trotting on the studio
bucks.Â
One of the films he made within this period was this tepid sex
farce, based on a 1977 French film (Un Moment d'Egarement), set on the sunny beaches of Brazil where a married, middle-aged businessman begins an affair with his best friend's teenage
daughter.
It's all in pretty bad taste and doesn't have much to laugh
about, except perhaps Michelle Johnson's attempt at acting. Â Insipid rubbish. I can't quite decide what to blame it on.
4/10
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