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Ah yes, "Summer Lovers." The 1982 flick starred Mr. Gallagher as ... I believe he's listed as "Luckiest Man on Earth" in the credits after basically spending a summer in the Greek isles having sex with Daryl Hannah and Valérie Quennessen.
While I work feverishly on editing our "Summer in the 80s" podcast, please enjoy the cheese-tastic trailer of one of my favorite summer movies.
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1. You made me rent this awful movie last summer...
2. Who drinks out of a vase anyway? Bad analogy.
Posted by: Christine | June 03, 2008 at 12:36 PM
1. You made me rent this awful movie last summer...
2. Who drinks out of a vase anyway? Bad analogy.
Posted by: Christine | June 03, 2008 at 12:36 PM
Duly noted. Going into the netflix queue ASAP!
Posted by: jane | May 31, 2008 at 12:01 PM
I loved it, Jane. So, I guess that's a yes.
Posted by: Marissa | May 31, 2008 at 11:55 AM
Which I've never seen, now that I think of it. Crash the second, that is. Hmmm. Is it worth a rental?
Posted by: jane | May 31, 2008 at 11:54 AM
Yeah, CRASH sans 'ed'. Definitely not to be mistaken with the Academy Award winning film from 2004.
Posted by: Marissa | May 31, 2008 at 11:50 AM
Crash the first (as I think of it) is indeed a weird, wild flick. Car accidents as aphrodisiacs. Who knew.
Posted by: jane | May 31, 2008 at 11:48 AM
James Spader. "CRASHED" ~ very bizarre indie flick.
Posted by: Marissa | May 31, 2008 at 11:37 AM
No way - would never have worked. Valerie was like a mustang, she needed to be free. Expecting her to settle down would destroy the very essence of her being he was attracted to in the first place.
I have way too many opinions about this film.
Posted by: Tonianne | May 31, 2008 at 11:34 AM
Seeing Peter Gallagher in Sex, Lies and Videotape took care of that for me. Another movie I haven't seen in forever that I should give a rewatch (James Spader!)
But Gallagher will always be ok in my book, as he's in maybe my favorite guilty pleasure movie of the '90s -- While You Were Sleeping.
Posted by: jane | May 31, 2008 at 11:29 AM
Peter gives the Royal Treatment to a couple more people in this flick.
He should have settled down with Valerie.
Posted by: Spears | May 31, 2008 at 11:27 AM
Any memory of Gallagher's work was erased after seeing him as Buddy Kane, "The Real Estate King" in AMERICAN BEAUTY
"yes your majesty!!!"
Posted by: Marissa | May 31, 2008 at 11:23 AM
It's been just this side of forever since I saw this movie. Wow.
I want to watch it again, just to see if Peter Gallagher's Eyebrows got screen credit for they appear to play a nice supporting role.
Posted by: jane | May 31, 2008 at 11:16 AM
Marissa, Your Dangerous (ala Top Gun)!
Posted by: Mike in Austin | May 31, 2008 at 11:12 AM
Uncle Rico ... Rico Suave'
Posted by: Marissa | May 31, 2008 at 11:06 AM
I like Spandau Ballet. I like "True". I like Napoleon Dynamite. I run with scissors just to prove I'm dangerous and crazy.
Posted by: Marissa | May 31, 2008 at 11:05 AM
Que, no hablo ingles. Como se llama que?
Tonianne, I zapped you an email before I saw your Netflix post.......I ordered it Amazon.
Posted by: Mike in Austin | May 31, 2008 at 10:58 AM
Mike - "Uncle Rico" is so sticking, dude.
Posted by: Tonianne | May 31, 2008 at 10:53 AM
So sorry Marissa, in my head, I'm that guy from Napolean Dynamite, uncle Ricco. I think Kahn said it best....I was a prince.....just making a funny.
Posted by: Mike in Austin | May 31, 2008 at 10:52 AM
I won't comment on Spandau Ballet, but as far as Summer Lovers is concerned, the cheese most assuredly does not stand alone.
Riss/Mike - to Netflix. Pronto.
Posted by: Tonianne | May 31, 2008 at 10:51 AM
Oh Mike, you're such the big monkey stud on the SIT80s campus.
Posted by: Marissa | May 31, 2008 at 10:44 AM
I've never seen this movie but damn I lived it over and over and over.....
Can't we go back?
MinA
Posted by: Mike in Austin | May 31, 2008 at 10:40 AM
I've never seen this movie. There. I admit it.
Posted by: Marissa | May 31, 2008 at 10:34 AM
OMIGOD.
Sean gives you nothing but grief over liking Spandau Ballet's "True," and I have been foursquare in your corner, my friend. But this public proclamation using the word "favorite" in the same sentence as SUMMER LOVERS?
The cheese stands alone.
Posted by: Rick | May 31, 2008 at 10:10 AM