In the early 1990s, my personal TV was a black and white one, with only 3 active channels (OH MY GOD, WHAT A TRAGEDY THAT WAS!). Anyhow, back then, I was having a very dull afternoon. But with this movie, it turned into Miracles!
All of its elements clicked, especially the cast. Teri Garr is something else. She can be innocent, annoying, comic, angry, sad, and vivid in the same time. It's great to see her in a movie of this sort. Too bad that cinema didn't use her that well. She could have been a star of some romantic comedies at the time. But alas. In any case, I know that this is a reason why her fans, including me, must cherish this movie best.
Tom Conti is fine. He made a productive duet with Teri. I loved the scene in which the plane falls down while the 2 are insanely laughing on the situation itself. However, why I thought that Conti was having a strange paroxysm of Peter Sellers?? He seemed to me haunted, during the whole movie, by the late actor's soul, moves, voice,...etc!
I love this comedy. It's filled up with action and mad events. The thing about it is that everything you don't expect happens. However, the best of it remains in the fact that this action comedy is about the return of love between 2 people. I just adore genre movies when they have MEANING.
For a buddy-movies' freak like me, this movie IS important. It has the formula of "arguing man and woman on the run, who become lovers at last", which is a common theme in these movies instead of "2 arguing men on the run, who become friends at last". This formula is so familiar since older godfathers like Two Mules for Sister Sara (1970) and Foul Play (1978). Now, in relation with 1986, I listed other similar movies of the same kind that were produced, some were super like (Legal Eagles) and some were disastrous like (Shanghai Surprise). It's clear that (Miracles) joins the super ones. It's funny, surprising and lovable.
Finally, it was black and white TV set, but - believe it or not - I just can't forget this movie's colors!
All of its elements clicked, especially the cast. Teri Garr is something else. She can be innocent, annoying, comic, angry, sad, and vivid in the same time. It's great to see her in a movie of this sort. Too bad that cinema didn't use her that well. She could have been a star of some romantic comedies at the time. But alas. In any case, I know that this is a reason why her fans, including me, must cherish this movie best.
Tom Conti is fine. He made a productive duet with Teri. I loved the scene in which the plane falls down while the 2 are insanely laughing on the situation itself. However, why I thought that Conti was having a strange paroxysm of Peter Sellers?? He seemed to me haunted, during the whole movie, by the late actor's soul, moves, voice,...etc!
I love this comedy. It's filled up with action and mad events. The thing about it is that everything you don't expect happens. However, the best of it remains in the fact that this action comedy is about the return of love between 2 people. I just adore genre movies when they have MEANING.
For a buddy-movies' freak like me, this movie IS important. It has the formula of "arguing man and woman on the run, who become lovers at last", which is a common theme in these movies instead of "2 arguing men on the run, who become friends at last". This formula is so familiar since older godfathers like Two Mules for Sister Sara (1970) and Foul Play (1978). Now, in relation with 1986, I listed other similar movies of the same kind that were produced, some were super like (Legal Eagles) and some were disastrous like (Shanghai Surprise). It's clear that (Miracles) joins the super ones. It's funny, surprising and lovable.
Finally, it was black and white TV set, but - believe it or not - I just can't forget this movie's colors!