Soapdish | Sally Field, Kevin Kline

Soapdish | Sally Field, Kevin Kline | Just a really funny movie!

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Soapdish

	Soapdish Sally Field, Kevin Kline Paramount, 2001 average customer review:based on 54 reviews view larger image
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highly recommended

Though this movie did decent box-office business, it was never as funny as it should have been or as clever as it thought it was. The film is set behind the scenes at The Sun Also Sets, a soap opera starring Sally Field that is suffering a ratings slump. To lure the audience back, the producers resurrect a dead character, played by Kevin Kline, with whom Field was once a lover of but is now at odds (and helped exile to dinner theater, where he is first glimpsed playing Willy Loman). Written by Andrew Bergman and Robert Harling, the script has its funny moments but never manages to string them together, despite a cast that includes Whoopi Goldberg, Robert Downey Jr., Cathy Moriarty, and Carrie Fisher. --Marshall Fine

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A Must Watch

Great romantic Comedy. Great plot, a little dark at times, which you'll love. What a cast! Really, you need to see this flick!

Just a really funny movie!

So silly, so funny -- the near-sighted Kevin Kline trying to read his cue cards (bran flavor? brake fluid? brain fever!), Whoopie Goldberg's exasperated writer (what do you mean bring him back? He was de-capitated! How am I going to write for someone without a head?!). Great cast, funny funny movie.

Life imitating soap imitating life...

Don't listen to the naysayer's and haters out there; `Soapdish' is hysterical from start to finish. Yes, this is a golden comedy that works so often you forgive its small faults and minor missteps for the big picture is perfectly satisfying.

Okay, so, let's get down to it. The film tells the story of Celeste Talbert, a huge star on a Soap Opera that has seriously been running for years. Her co-star Montana Moorehead is dying for a larger role, so much so that she would de anything to get Celeste off the show. This would include tempting the shows producer David Seton Barnes with her goodies (um, goodies?). When Talbert's niece winds up as an extra on the show things look like they are always falling in Celeste's favor, but when the show rewrites in her ex-lover Jeffery Anderson everything starts to unravel.

This film is an actor's goldmine, littered with comedic performances that are brilliantly fleshed out and inspired. At the helm of this ship is Sally Field, who in my opinion delivers one of the greatest performances of her career. What is so awesome about each performance, Field's in particular, is that they perfectly fit in that mode of acting so that their real life persona is almost as ridiculous as their Soap-star persona. Filed marvelously portrays all of Celeste's idiosyncrasies with reckless abandon and draws her too us. Kevin Kline is a gem as Jeffrey, and Robert Downey Jr. is hilarious (just love this guy) as the overzealous Barnes. The film belongs to Cathy Moriarty though. She manages to make Montana the most villainous yet intriguing character in the film (not to mention her all too obvious secret that dares to reveal itself at the wrong moments). Whoopi Goldberg and Elisabeth Shue also deliver nice supporting performances too, Goldberg owning each scene like she always does.

The real winner here is the script, which pits real life against the Soap world, which is really imitating life to the extreme, and what works is that `Soapdish' makes it's `real life' moments so much more interesting than it's `Soap Opera' moments. As the actor's lives start to unravel in front of the camera we see them going in and out of character and we see the thin line between reality and fiction.

In the end I strongly recommend this film. It has a few faults, sure, but the sum of its parts creates one hugely refreshing and entertaining film that is sure to keep you laughing and have you begging for more. Field and Moriarty are pure laugh-riots, and the rest of the cast stay right in toe to create a surefire crowd pleaser.

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Plain fun

When this movie came out I was younger than 10. But I remember watching it every single time they had it on TBS or TNT. This movie is, plainly put, a lot of fun. Very funny interpretations and a hell of a cast.

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