Watch: Such Good Friends 1971 123movies, Full Movie Online – Julie Messinger has it made. She is a New York housewife whose husband, Richard, is an editor for a prominent photography magazine. They have a small circle of friends, including well-meaning, but inept Dr. Timothy Spector, photographer Cal Whiting and Cal’s live-in girlfriend Miranda. Julie’s mother spends her days getting pedicures and manicures, applying make-up and fake eye-lashes and buying expensive clothes, all the while criticizing her daughter for her looks and behavior. When Richard goes into the hospital for a minor mole-removal surgery, Julie gets more than she bargained for. Richard suffers from complications and goes into a coma, supposedly caused by a rare surgical factor, and she gathers friends and family together, culminating in a hilarious “quasi-cocktail-party” scene in the blood donation center of the hospital. While dealing with red tape, hospital bureaucracy and clueless doctors, Julie discovers her husband’s “little black book,” which contains the names of her friends. She confirms that her husband had been sleeping around and proceeds to make a fool out of him by getting it on with his male friends. When the complications get more ominous, guilt opens the door to her liberation as a woman. A scathingly funny examination of the dirty rich partying while one of their number lies on the brink of death..
Plot: Julie Messinger is an intense woman who hides her wild emotions and desires under her conventional facade. Her husband Richard checks into the hospital for a simple mole removal that goes seriously wrong.
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Such An Out-Dated Movie
I’m a big fan of the beautiful, sexy, and talented Dyan Cannon. I saw this film when it first came out in 1971 and thought it was funny, sexy, well-acted, and entertaining. Well, I just saw this movie today, after some 35 years and it hasn’t aged well. The movie about a medical mishap and extra-marital affairs is now old news. The plot no longer has the kick it had back in 1971. There are some bright spots that are still shinny; an all-star cast of veteran actors, the sexy Miss Cannon and the equally attractive Jennifer O’Neal, and one very humor “sex” scene. Aside from that, the movie is slow moving and somewhat dull. The plot is depressing, and the ending makes little or no sense. So, unless you’re a big fan of Dyan Cannon or Jennifer O’Neal, I’d forget about Such Good Friends.
Dissipated urban humor
A sharp, deadpan-hilarious dark comedy which never found its audience, probably because there are so many different targets set up by the material: modern marriage, adultery, doctors, hospitals, the literary world, sexual fantasies, sexual positions, Jewishness, lesbian experimentation, revenge (maybe feminist revenge) and, of course, the hard work of dying–which brings everything full circle by the finale. Director Otto Preminger chases after the pungent satire in Elaine May’s script (under a pseudonym) in every direction, and yet the film doesn’t feel scattershot; it is a rude, wicked rose in constant bloom. The wife of a celebrated writer and magazine editor in New York City finds out her husband’s been cheating on her within their circle of friends–and this discovery comes while he’s in the hospital dying after having had a mole removed! Dyan Cannon delivers one of her best performances; she’s glib, bitter, sexy and naughty, which helps viewers overlook the fact the tone of the movie sometimes has an icy pallor. One of Pauline Kael’s complaints was that Cannon’s character goes after men without seeing the irony of her actions–that she has no self-respect–and this in fact may be true. We never learn where the wife’s priorities lie; she’s a good mother to her boys, she’s a good listener when her friends come around to bitch, but she’s too encompassed in thoughts of the past or in trying to stay strong to figure out how being cheated on really makes her feel. Preminger gets fine performances out of a colorful cast, and there are big laughs in the film, but cutting-edge comedies can also cut too deeply without nimble handling. Preminger isn’t very careful, but that may be intentional. ***1/2 from ****
Original Language en
Runtime 1 hr 41 min (101 min)
Budget 0
Revenue 0
Status Released
Rated R
Genre Comedy, Drama
Director Otto Preminger
Writer Lois Gould, Elaine May, David Shaber
Actors Dyan Cannon, James Coco, Jennifer O’Neill
Country United States
Awards 1 nomination
Production Company N/A
Website N/A
Sound Mix Mono
Aspect Ratio 1.78 : 1
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Laboratory Movielab, USA (color by) (as Movielab)
Film Length N/A
Negative Format 35 mm
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Printed Film Format 35 mm