Get Out Your Handkerchiefs

In a 1979 episode of Sneak Previews, Chicago Tribune film critic Gene Siskel praised the film, calling it "an offbeat, sometimes very serious comedy" that is "always surprising," going on to say that "`Get Out Your Handkerchiefs' is about a man - albeit a very young and small one - who really respects a woman, and that's a refreshing emotion to see, as is the whole movie [...]". In a huge disagreement, co-host and Chicago Sun-Times film critic Roger Ebert opened his rebuttal by saying, "In other words I take it you liked this film." Ebert quickly followed by saying it was one of the worst films he had ever seen ("I thought it was decadent, depraved, dumb, stupid, the characters were unattractive..."). His final word on the film, in a line similar to one later made famous in his scathing print review of the 1996 ensemble mob comedy "Mad Dog Time," was "I think it should be cut up to make ukulele picks."

Due to possible problems with the Child Protection Act UK cinema and video versions were cut by 5 secs to edit a scene where Christian looks at Solange's naked body as she lays in bed. The cuts were later waived for the 15-rated 2007 DVD.

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