Siskel & Ebert (TV Series)
Quiz Show/Milk Money/A Simple Twist of Fate/A Good Man in Africa/What Happened Was... (1994)
Gene Siskel: Self - Host
Quotes
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Roger Ebert - Host : [reviewing "Milk Money"] Y'know, this movie raises at least one obvious question, and that is: WHO in the WORLD do they think the target audience is for this film? Smaller kids aren't gonna understand it, older audiences are gonna find it offensive and absurd, and I don't exactly see the family audience flipping for a movie about fixing up your dad with a prostitute! But, that's a marketing question, and I also have an artistic question: Did ANYONE, ANYONE, think this material would or could or should work? It's one of the most inanely contrived stories of the year, and not even the genuinely likable performances from all of the leads, Ed Harris, Melanie Griffith, and Michael Patrick Carter as the kid, can save "Milk Money". This movie goes RIGHT into the dumpster.
Gene Siskel - Host : Yeah, it's a, it's a disaster, at the conception level, absolutely. And also, y'know... y'know how American films, uh, when they're viewed outside of our country, we're viewed as REALLY puritanical and snickering about sex, and really juvenile and retarded and adolescent?
Roger Ebert - Host : This is an example.
Gene Siskel - Host : This is it. You can point to this picture and say, "Boy, are you people preoccupied with the most STUPID things." And you can imagine a bunch of grown men who put this project together sitting around and thinking, "Uh, this'll work." Why don't they just flip through dirty pictures?
Roger Ebert - Host : There's an old, there's an old theory about Hollywood, which is that a lot of the executives out there can't think of any way to meet a woman unless she's a hooker, which is why, for example, in a lot of screenplays, that's what the woman is. Prostitution is one of the most common occupations for women in the movies, because maybe those guys don't know any women other than their wives who do anything else. I dunno.