The Pursuit of Happiness

This film was made to be a midnight movie. I could just imagine all the characters in the film being played by dressed-up teens. It would be a riot. Two silver spoons are supposedly attending Columbia (both of them are prime community college material). In the greatest challenge of her acting career, Barbara Hershey, who loves to take off her pants, plays a Columbia coed. Please. Things are not much better with the clueless Michael Sarrazin, who makes more bad decisions in two weeks than most people make in a lifetime. Neither of these characters could even find the room for the SAT test to get into any college. Normally, I would say don't waste your time, but watching this film is like watching a 20 car pileup on the highway; you just can't ignore it, even though it is horrible to watch. Robert Klein is very good, though, as is EG Marshall. His son in the film would go on to make Boys in the Band, a great movie. Someone has to make this a midnight movie.