What seems at the start like a bit of English slapstick soon turns into something altogether darker. Alfie is a player ( a ladies man) a 1960's misogynistic anti hero. Alfie played by Michael Caine in a role that catapulted him to stardom manages to father a child, steal a young Jane Asher and sleep with countless married women including a fellow patients wife all with the carelessness of a teenager playing truant from school.
This is before he meets his match in the more worldly Shelley Winters whose character is no stranger to getting what she wants either.
Although very funny in places , Alfie's world turns 180 degrees until the player becomes the played.
A poignant movie ultimately about people using people. I first watched this in 1988 and it had quite the affect on me as a young 20 year old man. Three wives and god knows how many kids later I wish I'd paid even more attention.
This is before he meets his match in the more worldly Shelley Winters whose character is no stranger to getting what she wants either.
Although very funny in places , Alfie's world turns 180 degrees until the player becomes the played.
A poignant movie ultimately about people using people. I first watched this in 1988 and it had quite the affect on me as a young 20 year old man. Three wives and god knows how many kids later I wish I'd paid even more attention.
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