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| This is what forbidden love looked like in 1982 |
Obviously
this will not have the punch that Someone I Touched did, though it does carry a
message of some importance. The older woman with the younger man; a
May-December romance!
I’m not
sure what was going on in the world in the early 80’s that they needed to make
a TV movie about such things, but they did, and it’s not taken lightly. I mean,
this is as serious as serious can be, there’s the painful moment when the young
doctor must decide if he really wants to move in with the amazingly rich and
attractive older woman (did he really need to think about it?), or the other
painful moment when the younger guy’s friends ask him and his older girlfriend
if they both want to go bowling – as if! Sorry guy who eventually marries one
of the Brady girls, and other guy who later plays a cop/acting coach in
Reservoir Dogs, but your good friend is too good for you now.
Yes, you
read me right, one of the husbands of the Brady girls is in this and he steals
the show. Not because of anything other than the fact that I knew I knew him
from somewhere but couldn’t place it, and it bugged me until I figured it out
(okay I looked it up).
Highlights:
The show starts with the guy in a bar and he is bound and determined to get to
a bowl of dip, stuff, I think (seriously, it looked gross). The older woman
moves the bowl and he dunks his hand into it, much to the delight of half the
bar – who couldn’t see him a second ago trying to reach for the bowl, but now
they all laugh and he laughs and you know deep down he wants to slap that bitch
– and I think he might when he follows her to the bathroom. He chickens out on
his plan for revenge murder and doesn’t see her again until the slopes.
Dude wants
hook up with her, bad, like real bad, and you can’t blame him. She’s a good
looking lady, I’m not gonna lie (because you’re not my wife asking me if I
thought she was good looking). Yvette Mimieux is the name of the actress, and
she is very pretty, and I didn’t recognize her but I looked her up anyway (I
needed something to do during the movie) and I found that she was in The Black
Hole and The Time Machine, and I really think I remember her from The Black Hole.
I remember that movie, that’s for sure, it’s one of what I call the Classic
Dark Disney Movies, and I’m pretty sure I remember Yvette. Either by today’s
standards or 80’s standards, in the movies, she is still pretty.
They
eventually go out to dinner and when she asks him to stop calling her Ms.
Whatever, and instead to call her by her first name, you can see he totally “completes”
in his pants right then, and even being a doctor he’s disturbed by what has
happened. He begins to cry and then promptly falls asleep – all of this
happening at the restaurant (this part my wife and I may have made up).
Another
highlight is – apparently while playing a game of chess – the older woman falls
completely and madly in love with the guy’s arm and drags her fingers up and
down his forearm, and all the while he’s looking at her like she’s gotta be the
weirdest bitch in the world, only to “complete” again, and she takes that
moment to move one of the chess pieces. I couldn’t see the whole board but was
pretty sure she won (the part about making out during chess is real, the part
about her winning is not).
Also,
every time they kiss his lips stick out like the Audrey II plant in Little Shop
of Horrors (regardless of my wife’s argument, this part is real). Made me not
like the guy.
The last
thing we saw was the phone call from the parents cleverly hiding the fact that
they were making a trek to visit their son. I haven’t seen that part yet but I’m
just gonna go out on a limb here and say it don’t go well.
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