Made for Each Other (1971)

An eccentric woman meets an equally odd man at a group therapy session and they begin a relationship.

Director:

Robert B. Bean

Writers:

Renée Taylor, Joseph Bologna

Stars:

Renée Taylor, Joseph Bologna, Paul Sorvino

1 nomination.

Cast

Cast overview, first billed only:
Renée Taylor	...	Pandora
Joseph Bologna	...	Giggy
Paul Sorvino	...	Gig's Father
Helen Verbit	...	Pandora's Mother
Olympia Dukakis	...	Gig's Mother
Louis Zorich	...	Pandora's Father
Ron Carey	...	Group Member
Despo Diamantidou	...	Group Member (as Despo)
Peggy Pope	...	Group Member
Susan Brockman	...	Group Member
Michael Brockman	...	Group Member
Art Levy	...	Group Member
Freeda Wexler	...	Group Member
Barbara Levy	...	Group Member
Norman Shelly	...	Doctor Furro

Storyline

An eccentric woman meets an equally odd man at a group therapy session and they begin a relationship.

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Plot Keywords:

boyfriend girlfriend relationship | caught masturbating | masturbation | group therapy | family dinner | 

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Taglines:

The pair who created "Lovers and Other Strangers" take on marriage and other impossibilities.

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Genres:

Comedy

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Certificate:

GP

Details

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Release Date:

12 December 1971 (USA)

Also Known As:

Feitos um para o Outro

Company Credits

Production Co:

Wylde Films

Technical Specs

Runtime:

100 min

Sound Mix:

Mono

Color:

Black and White Color

Aspect Ratio:

1.85 : 1

Did You Know?

Trivia

Joseph Bologna's film debut.

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Quotes

Gig 'Giggy' Pimimba: How can you be so perceptive when it comes to me, and so stupid when it comes to yourself?

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Connections

Referenced in Celebrity Ghost Stories: Joan Osborne/Ahmad Rashad/Renee Taylor/Mia Tyler (2011)

User Reviews

The perfect comedy

I haven't seen this film since it came out in 1971; my mouth dropped open. One of your reviewers said it is a virtual gem but that's wrong--nothing virtual about it, it's a REAL gem! Maybe the funniest, most intelligent, poignant, true-to-life film I've ever seen. Just a couple of scenes...

As the film opens, Joseph Bologna is graduating from Brooklyn College (I think) and is standing, in gown and mortarboard, with his two proud, obviously much less educated Italian-American parents. Being a proud, prickly adolescent, he idiotically uses this joyous landmark family occasion to start a nasty argument in which he rants against his baffled parents, warning them of what is going to happen to people like them when people like him righteously rise up to end the wrongs they have been enduring. The topper is that the viewer notices he is wearing, under his gown, a necklace of shark's teeth, a la Black Panther terrorists (remember them?).

Then we meet his girlfriend, Renee Taylor (in real life, co-writer and long-time wife). She is this neurotic, psychoanalytically-oriented, minimally talented, would-be actress. Also a pushy Jewish Brooklyn girl who is Bologna's greatest booster--and would-be wife. She has developed a high-concept (she thinks) act we see her perform in a smoky, low-ceiling Brooklyn dump of a night club. The act is a series of impersonations. Her gimmick is that at the beginning of each, she coyly asks the audience "Who am I?" After each impersonation she asks the audience who the subject was. No one knows the right answer. But, unaware of the magnitude of the disaster, she bravely soldiers on. It is riotously funny yet as painful as Chaplin's dinner in "The Gold Rush" in which, as the evening wears on, it becomes clear that his lovely female guests won't show up.

Does anyone know how to buy a DVD of this extraordinary film by two geniuses?