{"id":14627,"date":"2021-11-29T23:01:09","date_gmt":"2021-11-30T04:01:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/?p=14627"},"modified":"2021-11-29T23:01:09","modified_gmt":"2021-11-30T04:01:09","slug":"parents-1989-bob-balaban","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/archives\/14627","title":{"rendered":"Parents (1989, Bob Balaban)"},"content":{"rendered":"

“You know what this is, Mike?”
\n“I think it’s a pen.”
\n“It’s an opportunity!”<\/p>\n

Besides inventing Wolf of Wall Street<\/a><\/em>, this movie has good cartoony Hudsucker<\/em> cinematography and plays an impressive balancing act. Michael’s parents Randy Quaid and Mary Beth Hurt are aggressively ordinary, but he’s suspicious of all their behavior and conversations and the food they prepare. They might be murderous cannibals or Michael might be at an age where he’s becoming more interested and confused by the adult world, and 15 minutes before the end we find out it’s both.<\/p>\n

Happy family at dinner:<\/em>
\n<\/p>\n

Michael through the looking glass:<\/em>
\n<\/p>\n

Dad works at Toxico making chemicals to destroy plants. Michael gets caught in the freezer with the neighbor girl. The school psychologist (Sandy Dennis of 976-EVIL<\/em>) takes an interest, comes over to help and becomes dinner. Balaban isn’t content with simple setups, keeps adding inventive visuals (there’s an insane shot traveling though the vents when Sandy’s in the basement). The kid is my age, and never appeared in another movie. Felipe writes<\/a> “As a send off of Reagan era 50s fetishism this isn’t quite as good as The Stepfather<\/em>,” I’ll have to watch that one next year.<\/p>\n

Dennis discusses adult behavior:<\/em>
\n<\/p>\n

Michael haunted by sausages:<\/em>
\n<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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