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They All Laughed (1981)
Hommage to NYC in 1980 and to georgeous and otherworldly Dorothy Stratten
Why give a film, bashed by most other reviews 10 out of 10 stars?
Because the proper way to watch this film is to turn off the soundtrack and instead listen to your favourite chill out music and focus on the scenes showing the bustling and teeming streets of NYC and Dorothy Stratten.
Don't bother with the atrocious dialogues, and instead you will be rewarded with a most fascinating time capsule of the year 1980.
Now, why Audrey Hepburn decided to star in this flick I really beyond me. She shouldn't have. She mostly wanders around the streets, what a poor performance. And why did she have the strange haircut, she looks too much like a demure grand ma, certainly sporting an outfit more like in her older films and with longer hair would have been appropriate.
John Ritter looks like the even nerdier version of nerdy Bill Gates (who knows, maybe he's his lost brother) whom any woman with eyes even remotely as functional as those of a mole would ignore or only marry because of a fat bank account and Bob Gazzarra is awful, no aura, no charm, no charisma, no nothing.
Patti Hansen is a delight to the eye and Colleen Camp is kinda of cute and sweet, a tad little too short and wide and even with high heels Dorothy Stratten towers over her.
There is something majestic, aristocratic and classy about Dorothy Stratten, she doesn't need high heels and still stands so tall and in some way, well imposing is the wrong word, but one can feel somehow her presence. She has a special aura, a charisma, there's something lovely and tender about her. She's approachable and yet still quite different than say Colleen Camp, Dorothy is somehow an all-American girl in the sense that all Americans can love her but she's still not the girl next door, you won't see many Dorothy's in your life. While Colleen Camp could be anybody's cute neighbour or girlfriend.
Dorothy Stratten looks a little bit like a Russian or Hungarian beauty, one wonders whether she really is (or rather was) a fully blooded Anglo-Saxon.
It's not possible, at least for me, to watch this film, or at least the scenes starring Dorothy Stratten without thinking about what happened to her after the shooting of the film. It's sad that she didn't even get to see the film because of her murder. Of course this is not a great film, but to a young and potentially promising actress, fate, god, the creator or whatever you want to call it should at least have granted her seeing this flick. It was her work after all, and even thoug her performance as actress was not "stellar", who could blame a 20 year old for not playing like Ann-Margret? Now enough of the eulogies for the deceased blonde angel.
Actually, I don't quite understand why Peter Bogdanovic bothered making this feature film, why didn't he simply shoot a documentary about NYC and star Dorothy Stratten as narrator and "tour guide"? This would have been better than the failed "comedy" we have now.
Anyway, if you want to kill your time and make a time travel to a magical place with a ravishing blonde fairy tale angel, well here you are with "they all laughed", who knows, maybe you will also laugh.