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Scenes from a Mall (1991) 5.0
On their 16th anniversary a married couple's trip to a Beverly Hills mall becomes the stage for personal revelations and deceptions. Director:Paul Mazursky |
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Deborah Fifer
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Mime
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Sam
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Jennifer
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Dr. Hans Clava
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Michael Brown | ... |
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Joseph Warren | ... |
Joe Cool & the Coolers (Rap Group)
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Darrell Mason | ... |
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El Mariachi Bustamente
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On their 16. anniversary, during a shopping stroll, the lawyer Nick Fifer confesses his wife Deborah some affairs. She goes wild and insists on a divorce. After they agreed to the dividing up of their belongings, Deborah confesses having an affair, too. Now he gets very upset and wants the divorce for his part, but the last word is not spoken yet. Written by Thomas Manhardt <Thomas.Manhardt@wu-wien.ac.at>
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A hilarious adventure in marriage, infidelity and bargain shopping! See more »Genres:
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EnglishRelease Date:
22 February 1991 (USA) See more »Also Known As:
Ein ganz normaler Hochzeitstag See more »Box Office
Budget:
$3,000,000 (estimated)Gross:
$9,563,393 (USA)Company Credits
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Nick Fifer: [defensive] Am I the kind of guy who loses his temper?
Deborah Fifer: Please! You smashed the mime in the jaw!
Nick Fifer: [defensive] I gave him 100 bucks...
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Written by Tomas Mendez
Performed by El Mariachi Bustamante
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Most of the film's mall scenes where filmed on a sound stage in Queens, New York. It was a two-level set nearly a quarter mile long with over 150 fully stocked stores. Scenes with elevators and escalators where filmed at a real mall in Stamford, Connecticut. Some exterior shots where filmed at the actual Beverly Center Mall in Los Angeles. See more »Quotes
[Last lines]Nick Fifer: [defensive] Am I the kind of guy who loses his temper?
Deborah Fifer: Please! You smashed the mime in the jaw!
Nick Fifer: [defensive] I gave him 100 bucks...
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"CU-CU-RRU-CU-CU, PALOMA"Written by Tomas Mendez
Performed by El Mariachi Bustamante
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This is a "comedy" that pairs two of the funniest, fieriest Jewish comedians alive. It is about a bickering married couple that works out all their marital problems during a trip to the mall. Sounds great! Get to work. Wait. What is this? This is crap! Fix it! What? You can't? You already filmed it with a second-rate crew in just the past couple of days? What the hell is wrong with you?!
I can understand it if Paul Mazursky wasn't as successful as one would think with this film because he didn't want to make the screwball comedy that everyone would expect, but what is so pathetic about this is that there are many moments where the film truly does believe it is being funny, such as the scenes with the irritating mime.
Like most modern marriages, after about half an hour you might really want to reconsider your vows with this film, because although it starts blandly enough, you still feel that you can expect the laughs to start piling up, but they never ever do. Not once. Bette and Woody aren't even very good. What do they have with which to work? They can't spark off of one another in spite of generally giving as much as they can to these two-dimensional characters.
Overall, this is quite an unnecessary film, a contrived effort to cash in, but with no juices at all except the anticipation of having Bette and Woody in the same film. It's almost unbelievable how bad it is. I understand if one does not trust the almost unanimous bashing this film gets until one actually sees it, because I am guilty of this. Woody Allen, as a writer and director, has never made a bad film. Even his worst film is twice as good if not more than this waste of talent.