Monday, January 22, 2024

Movie review - "Maxie" (1985) **

 Hollywood used to make a lot of random movies like this. I guess it still does, just on streaming. It's a riff on Blithe Spirit with dull Glenn Close and Mandy Pantinkin discovering the ghost of a 20s slapper in their building... in San Fran, when surely LA would've been more suited?

She wrecks some havoc but it doesn't have much of a reason or rhythm. Blithe Spirit had troubles in the new marriage and Madame Arcadi., the ghost had a clear goal (get her husband back). This is more haphazard.

There's some fun to be had - Close trying to seduce priest Stephen Furst, Patinkin's co worker hitting on him, Harry Hamlin as Julius Caesar.

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