{"id":2016,"date":"2006-12-16T22:35:31","date_gmt":"2006-12-17T05:35:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/?p=2016"},"modified":"2020-12-14T00:34:25","modified_gmt":"2020-12-14T07:34:25","slug":"willie-and-phil-1980","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/?p=2016","title":{"rendered":"Willie and Phil (1980)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>&#8220;A woman is not allowed to come between two men who are friends. It&#8217;s not allowed! It&#8217;s illegal!&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n<table>\n<tr>\n<td>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/12\/Willie-and-Phil-Poster.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/12\/Willie-and-Phil-Poster-196x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"196\" height=\"300\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-23314\" srcset=\"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/12\/Willie-and-Phil-Poster-196x300.jpg 196w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/12\/Willie-and-Phil-Poster-83x128.jpg 83w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/12\/Willie-and-Phil-Poster.jpg 494w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 196px) 100vw, 196px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Synopsis:<\/strong><br \/>\nIn the 1970s, two friends (Michael Ontkean and Ray Sharkey) fall in love with the same woman (Margot Kidder) while exploring alternate lifestyles.\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>\n<p>\n<strong>Genres, Themes, Actors, and Directors:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Friendship<\/li>\n<li>Love Triangle<\/li>\n<li>Margot Kidder Films<\/li>\n<li>Paul Mazursky Films<\/li>\n<li>Romantic Comedy<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Review: <\/strong><br \/>\nPaul Mazursky&#8217;s disappointing homage to <a href=\"http:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/?p=27915\"><em>Jules et Jim<\/em> (1962)<\/a> falls flat on every count. We never care for these three characters, nor do we particularly understand why they become friends and then lovers. As Pauline Kael writes, &#8220;Jeannette doesn&#8217;t live up to what Willie and Phil say about her, and they don&#8217;t live up to what the narrator&#8230; says about them.&#8221; Indeed, Mazursky&#8217;s annoying voiceover merely distances us further from these two-dimensional folks. Finally, the trio&#8217;s experiments with acid, free love, living off the land, and spirituality may have been a fun trip down memory road when the film was released in 1980, but have been portrayed countless times since then, and offer nothing new to our understanding of the &#8217;70s.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Redeeming Qualities and Moments:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>A sometimes clever overview of 1970s &#8220;lifestyle&#8221; choices and spiritual searches (but done much better in many other films)<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/12\/Willie-and-Phil-Still.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/12\/Willie-and-Phil-Still-1024x544.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"340\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-57758\" srcset=\"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/12\/Willie-and-Phil-Still-1024x544.png 1024w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/12\/Willie-and-Phil-Still-300x159.png 300w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/12\/Willie-and-Phil-Still-128x68.png 128w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/12\/Willie-and-Phil-Still-768x408.png 768w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/12\/Willie-and-Phil-Still-1536x816.png 1536w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/12\/Willie-and-Phil-Still-508x270.png 508w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/12\/Willie-and-Phil-Still.png 1824w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Must See? <\/strong><br \/>\nNo. This homage to <em>Jules et Jim<\/em> is a major disappointment. <\/p>\n<p><strong>Links:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/imdb.com\/title\/tt0081758\/\">IMDb entry<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/1980\/08\/15\/archives\/willie-and-phil-3-lives-sort-of-shared.html\">NY Times Original Review<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.timeout.com\/film\/64625.html\">Time Out Capsule Review<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rogerebert.com\/reviews\/willie-and-phil-1980\">Roger Ebert&#8217;s Review<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;A woman is not allowed to come between two men who are friends. It&#8217;s not allowed! It&#8217;s illegal!&#8221; Synopsis: In the 1970s, two friends (Michael Ontkean and Ray Sharkey) fall in love with the same woman (Margot Kidder) while exploring alternate lifestyles. Genres, Themes, Actors, and Directors: Friendship Love Triangle Margot Kidder Films Paul Mazursky Films Romantic Comedy Review: Paul Mazursky&#8217;s disappointing homage to Jules et Jim (1962) falls flat on every count. We never care for these three characters,&#8230;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"><a class=\"btn btn-default\" href=\"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/?p=2016\"> Read More<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">  Read More<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2016","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-reviews"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2016","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2016"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2016\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":57760,"href":"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2016\/revisions\/57760"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2016"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2016"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2016"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}