Star 80

Bob Fosse’s last film and certainly not his best. Why watch it? Eric Roberts is creepy and compelling as Dorothy Stratton’s psychotic Svengali Paul Snider. Cliff Robertson is amusing as Hugh Hefner and Roger Rees is controlling in a nicer way than Snider as Peter Bogdanovich, I mean Aram Nicholas. What else is cool about this film? The throwback feel it as of 80’s or maybe really 70’s film making. Or is it just Fosse’s style and the technology of the time. Whatever it is, I miss that roughness that most films today lack even when they try to recreate it.
Favorite moment: Paul trying to convince one of Hef’s minions to let him back into the mansion. What a schmuck!
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