{"id":66,"date":"2006-03-10T13:49:50","date_gmt":"2006-03-10T20:49:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/?p=66"},"modified":"2021-01-29T13:45:07","modified_gmt":"2021-01-29T20:45:07","slug":"pipe-dreams-1976","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/?p=66","title":{"rendered":"Pipe Dreams (1976)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>&#8220;Oh, baby &#8212; I told you again and again to stay out of those kind of things.&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n<table>\n<tr>\n<td>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/03\/Pipe-Dreams-Poster.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/03\/Pipe-Dreams-Poster-199x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"199\" height=\"300\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-22789\" srcset=\"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/03\/Pipe-Dreams-Poster-199x300.jpg 199w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/03\/Pipe-Dreams-Poster-85x128.jpg 85w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/03\/Pipe-Dreams-Poster.jpg 580w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 199px) 100vw, 199px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Synopsis:<\/strong><br \/>\nA woman (Gladys Knight) whose husband (Barry Hankerson) has run out on her goes to Alaska to try to win him back. <\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>\n<p><strong>Genres, Themes, Actors, and Directors:<\/strong> <\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>African-Americans<\/li>\n<li>Alaska<\/li>\n<li>Feminism and Women&#8217;s Issues<\/li>\n<li>Marital Problems<\/li>\n<li>Strong Women<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Response to Peary&#8217;s Review:<\/strong><br \/>\nAs Peary notes, this &#8220;acceptable low-budget film&#8221; &#8212; a rare, non-exploitative 1970s movie about a black couple&#8217;s relationship &#8212; is more a curio for Gladys Knight fans than anything else. Other than the &#8220;rousing&#8221; soundtrack, the film&#8217;s primary strength lies in the way it shows Knight trying to help out her needy female friends in the &#8220;male-dominated&#8221; territory of Alaska.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Redeeming Qualities:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>A refreshing focus on a black couple in a mostly-white state<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/03\/Pipe-Dreams-Black-Couple.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/03\/Pipe-Dreams-Black-Couple-1024x552.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"345\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-47370\" srcset=\"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/03\/Pipe-Dreams-Black-Couple-1024x552.png 1024w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/03\/Pipe-Dreams-Black-Couple-300x162.png 300w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/03\/Pipe-Dreams-Black-Couple-128x69.png 128w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/03\/Pipe-Dreams-Black-Couple-768x414.png 768w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/03\/Pipe-Dreams-Black-Couple-1536x828.png 1536w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/03\/Pipe-Dreams-Black-Couple.png 1835w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><\/li>\n<li>Beautiful cinematography of Alaskan wilderness<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/03\/Pipe-Dreams-Still.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/03\/Pipe-Dreams-Still-1024x557.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"348\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-47366\" srcset=\"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/03\/Pipe-Dreams-Still-1024x557.png 1024w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/03\/Pipe-Dreams-Still-300x163.png 300w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/03\/Pipe-Dreams-Still-128x70.png 128w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/03\/Pipe-Dreams-Still-768x417.png 768w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/03\/Pipe-Dreams-Still-1536x835.png 1536w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/03\/Pipe-Dreams-Still.png 1827w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><\/li>\n<li>The haunting theme song (&#8220;So Sad the Song&#8221;), which will stay in your mind for quite a while. <\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Must See? <\/strong><br \/>\nNo, unless you&#8217;re a hardcore Gladys Knight fan; I recommend buying <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/B00000I3BE\/ref=pd_kar_gw_3\/103-1385931-9591012?%5Fencoding=UTF8&#038;v=glance&#038;n=5174\">the soundtrack<\/a> instead.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Links:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/imdb.com\/title\/tt0075068\/\">IMDb entry<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/1976\/12\/24\/archives\/film-gladys-knight-and-alaska-pipeline.html\">NY Times Original Review<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Oh, baby &#8212; I told you again and again to stay out of those kind of things.&#8221; Synopsis: A woman (Gladys Knight) whose husband (Barry Hankerson) has run out on her goes to Alaska to try to win him back. Genres, Themes, Actors, and Directors: African-Americans Alaska Feminism and Women&#8217;s Issues Marital Problems Strong Women Response to Peary&#8217;s Review: As Peary notes, this &#8220;acceptable low-budget film&#8221; &#8212; a rare, non-exploitative 1970s movie about a black couple&#8217;s relationship &#8212; is more&#8230;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"><a class=\"btn btn-default\" href=\"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/?p=66\"> 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":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-66","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-responses-to-peary"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66","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=66"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":66780,"href":"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66\/revisions\/66780"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=66"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=66"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=66"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}