My Dinner With Andre

[carinab]

You either hate this film or think it was really interesting. I've never heard anyone ever say, "Um, it was okay." Reading the "Bleep" movie thread made me think of this film, as it too seems to have little or no middle ground. I haven't seen it since it was in the theatre and I'm not even certain you could find it on video tape. It was made in 1981, is 110 minutes long, stars Wally Shawn and Andre Gregory, and has about eight camera angles.

IMDB describes the plot as: "Wallace Shawn and Andre Gregory, apparently playing themselves, share their lives over the course of an evening meal at a restaurant. Gregory, a theater director from New York, is the more talkative of the pair. He relates to Shawn his tales of dropping out, traveling around the world, and experiencing the variety of ways people live, such as a monk who could balance his entire weight on his fingertips. Shawn listens avidly, but questions the value of Gregory's seeming abandonment of the pragmatic aspects of life."

No car chases here. No stunt doubles. Nothing blows up. No aliens. Only two guys talking to each other for just about two hours. So, has anyone else seen this movie and what did you think?

[kevin c]

I did.

It was interesting, but not something I'd go out of my way to rent to see a second time, let alone add to my collection.

I think I caught it during one of my snooty, intellectual phases when I was single. I might recommend it to someone with the same hangup, but not to my friends that I go see Kate Beckinsdale vampire movies with (shootin buds), or comedies (my wife) or Harry Potter (my son).

I saw Swimming to Cambodia with Spaulding Gray around the same time, for pretty much the same reason, and, as I remember, it was constructed the same way.

I guess I should admit that it might be interesting to have friends who could talk like that at dinner (I am not a talker, though listening to a good tale/argument/conversation, even one sided is something I could go for).

[AlamoShooter]

Carinab

Movies can be like people in many ways. its funny that you have not viewed the movie in several years. I would like to know when you see it again if you 'see' it the same way?

I have rememberd movies and as I changed and got older= some how the 'Movie ' changed. = not what I remebered at all.

I remember James Bond being the coolest. = Now thats how women like to be treated.

Take the movie= Dr Zivago... the first time I saw it, I thought 'What a turd' he left his wife to fool around with the Blond. in the ending he got what he deserved. The second time I saw it I was divorced and I thought. Ahh not such a clear choice the wife could be happy with a pet dog, but the Blond. =! !don't let her get away! FOOL.

Now I see that =The writer captured how week men are.

My wife and I will rent Dinner with Andre soon, thanks for the heads up.

Jamie

Watch your movie again and tell us if it is what you remeber

Edited January 26, 2006 by AlamoShooter

[AlamoShooter]

Ok Linda and I rented it ... she could not stay awake, I did not finish it ... I used to know people that realy though like that and they kept trying to believe what they had to say.

But ...No The waiter was the most interesting of them all.

Sorry I just didn't get it.

Jamie