1983 Movie Reviews – Baby It’s You, Curtains, and My Tutor

Welcome to an thrilling year-long mission right here at The Nerdy. 1983 was an thrilling 12 months for movies giving us quite a lot of movies that might go on to be beloved favorites and cult classics. It was additionally the begin to a serious shift in cultural and societal norms, and a few of these nonetheless reverberate to this present day.

We’re going to choose and select which films we hit, however proper now the checklist stands at practically 4 dozen.

Sure, we’re insane, however 1983 was that nice of a 12 months for movie.

The articles will come out – normally – on the identical day the movies hit theaters in 1983 in order that it’s their true fortieth anniversary. All movies are additionally watched once more for the needs of those evaluations and aren’t being completed from reminiscence. In some circumstances, it really would be the first time we’ve seen them.

This time round, it’s March 4th, 1983, and we’re off to see Child It’s You, Curtains, and My Tutor!

Fast aspect notice: Since we launched this sequence this 12 months, we’ve found that Classic Video Podcast is doing the very same mission with two variations: First, it’s audio (naturally), and second, they’re doing each main movie. We’ve listened to quite a few episodes and it’s enjoyable checking off their ideas in opposition to my very own. Examine them out over at Classic Video Podcast.

Child It’s You

I’ll give Child It’s You this, it begins off as a seemingly easy Romeo & Juliet retelling, and it evolves into one thing very totally different.

Jill (Rosanna Arquette) is an upper-middle-class Jewish woman in a New Jersey highschool who turns into the romantic goal of current switch, Sheik (Vincent Spano). Sheik is a dapper dresser, however by no means goes to class and does nothing however circumstances issues within the college. Jill is an A-student and finds herself falling for this Frank Sinatra obsessed unhealthy boy.

Whereas the movie might have taken an easy path of a contented ending, it as a substitute takes a flip of following these characters till they’re out of highschool and studying the arduous method that the true world holds some arduous truths for everybody. Simply since you had been good at one thing in highschool doesn’t essentially imply it should translate into your younger grownup years. Jill finds school a way more troublesome expertise, whereas Sheik learns what was cute when he was a youngster isn’t so cute as an grownup.

No new floor is damaged right here, but it surely’s an enticing story that takes some dangers. Some repay, some don’t, but it surely’s a worthwhile watch.

Curtains

Generally I’m fortunate sufficient to get just a few weeks forward on my movie awaiting this sequence. I’m at all times thrilled after I’m not working to the minute of launch, however then I generally run right into a state of affairs resembling Curtains the place I struggled with “Wait… did I truly watch this?”

I bear in mind precisely one scene from this movie, which is the one you see above what must be the world’s longest ice skating scene adopted by an equally lengthy “I believe I’ll simply sit right here and watch this loopy individual strategy me till it’s too late.”

The entire movie revolves round a director who works with an actress who’s a bit too far down the ‘Technique Performing’ highway and insisted on being checked into an asylum to organize for her most difficult position so far. In the meantime, with out warning, the director begins auditioning different girls for the position at a secluded property.

That is a type of movies the place one thing simply doesn’t really feel proper, so I went and seemed up trivia on it, and certain sufficient, manufacturing was a large number. The director and producer had been at odds for lengthy sufficient that filming truly needed to be completed in two groupings with totally different crews and even one recasting.

It’s a messy, boring movie that you’ll overlook practically as quickly as you end watching it.

My Tutor

Oh… good. Bear in mind Non-public Classes from 1981? Properly, it’s again for 1983. At the very least this time it’s mildly extra palatable because the male is older, but it surely’s nonetheless only a bizarre male-fantasy story of ‘this older girl can’t resist me.’

Terry (Caren Kaye) is employed to tutor Vobby (Matt Lattanzi) in French over the summer time in order that he can move a check and get into a superb college. In fact, this being the 80s, there’s just one method that is doing they usually find yourself sleeping collectively regularly, however solely after he witnesses her skinny dipping within the household pool.

There’s an odd side-story about Bobby’s pals and him making an attempt to lose their virginity and preserve ending up in odd sexual misadventures, but it surely allowed the movie to simply drive up its nudity rely.

The 80s ran rampant with a lot of these movies, and this one was a staple of late evening cable film channels for what appeared like years. Whereas the movie is basically innocent for essentially the most half – ignoring the ickyness of the principle relationship – it’s only a huge nothing. You don’t really feel as if these characters go on any type of a journey aside from Bobby who learns to face as much as his fad by the top. Everybody else just about ends the movie the place they started, and also you surprise why you spent 97 minutes of your life anticipating something totally different.

All that stated, it’s an nearly important viewing for anybody making an attempt to discover 80s movies because it was so ubiquitous on the time.

1983 Film Critiques will return on March 11, 2023 with 10 to Midnight and Trenchcoat!

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