SHORT TAKES
SLITHER (MGM) — This one’s a very strange movie about a group of lower middle class wackos running all over Southern California searching for some embezzled funds that got stashed away years ago. Lots of good working class touches: laundromats, tuna fish sandwiches, mobile homes, dinners of Dr. Pepper and corn on the cob.
SHORT TAKES
SLITHER (MGM) - This one’s a very strange movie about a group of lower middle class wackos running all over Southern California searching for some embezzled funds that got stashed away years ago. Lots of good working class touches: laundromats, tuna fish sandwiches, mobile homes, dinners of Dr. Pepper and corn on the cob. Slither is so in love with, and amused by, its cast of crazies that it’s impossible to .feel any other way about the flick itself. Very, very good cast with James Caan, doing a dumb-funny Dustin Hoffman turn, and Sally Kellerman, as a speed freak, taking the top honors. And to top it off there’s a big put-on ending that blows the whole thing right in your face. Highly recommended, and an auspicious directorial debjat for Howard Zieff* the genius who gave you all those AlkaSeltzer and Benson & Hedges commercials.
