Siskel & Ebert (1988) - Everybody’s All-American, The Good Mother, Little Dorrit, A Cry in the Dark

In this episode, Siskel and Ebert review: Everybody’s All-American, U2: Rattle and Hum, The Good Mother, Little Dorrit and A Cry in the Dark.

[@lw3646]

Little Dorrit was really good, especially the two lead performances and the music.

[@jamesmitchell8922]

I saw it in 2013 on the Sony Movie Channel. They showed both parts on the same day

[@johnnyskinwalker4095]

I thought All-American was pretty bad. I bought it for cheap on e-Bay recently, watching it for the first time. For the whole thing it felt like a parody of a biography and was not sure what they were trying to do. At some point I thought it was a comedy cause of the bad accents and clothing styles and these two actors passing as "young people". I don't know about Dennis Quaid, sometime I think he's good, sometime he's bad. Like he's too goofy, esp. when he does accents. It was only by near the end of movie where I got what they were trying to do(about people badly adapting to old age whatever). But too little too late.

[@lerm2866]

Heavy show!

[@ikoousps]

Thanks. I could spend hours here.

[@nativeroscoe64]

I liked LITTEL DORRIT that didn't feel like 6 hours. A CRY IN THE DARK is very interesting. The dingo dog weighs as much as an 8 pound baby. How can it carry the child off? Meryl Streep was excellent.

[@ricardocantoral7672]

A Dingo did, in fact, eat her baby.

[@jaykay6387]

Everybody's All-American was a bit better than they gave it credit for. I thought it was underrated when it initially came out and is one of those films that has been essentially forgotten. Flawed, yes, but the thread about a washed up former great college and pro player was done better than any film I had seen up to that point in time. Dennis Quaid was excellent, as usual, he might be one of the most underrated actors of his generation.

[@rosselliswilkinson]

Dreamscape is one of my favourite Dennos Quaid movies

[@freemangriffin4953]

I thought Jessica Lange was superb in it...

[@johnnyskinwalker4095]

I thought it was pretty bad.

[@jaykay6387]

@@johnnyskinwalker4095 It wasn't a great film. But I thought that it had just enough insight in a "small bore" way to make it a worthwhile watch. It's fair to say that it sucked, though. There is enough "bad" about it to come to that conclusion.

[@johnnyskinwalker4095]

@@jaykay6387 I saw it for the first time a few weeks ago and throughout the whole movie I thought it was some sort of parody with the bad hair and bad accent. lol It got a little better near the end though.

[@dionysoscub]

I'm sure it's just a typo, but the movie came out in 1988.👍🏾

[@acholl980]

It's fixed

[@reneedennis2011]

I've seen Yhe Good Mother. It's a good movie

[@wolfpox]

Siskel is so drunk on this episode it's hard to believe they aired it.

[@jamesmitchell8922]

As if he enjoyed U2