This is a solid comedy, with some good laughs and strong performances, but did anyone buy the notion of Ally Sheedy as "
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WarpedRecord — 19 years ago(June 24, 2006 03:19 PM)
This is a solid comedy, with some good laughs and strong performances, but did anyone buy the notion of Ally Sheedy as "plain"? Couldn't they have uglified her a bit or gotten a less pretty actress?
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mikex5 — 19 years ago(August 17, 2006 05:23 AM)
I thought Ally sheedy was really good in this movie. She played the role realy well. She reminded me a little of Talia Shire in the first Rocky filmkind of shy and intreverted. I thought she pulled it off well. Ally Sheedy is pretty, but she's not a knockout, IMO
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Studioart81 — 17 years ago(October 20, 2008 06:32 PM)
Granted there was at least 10 or more years age difference between Candy and Sheedy in real life, their characters may have closer in age. Who knows? It is not so uncommon to "rob the cradle" and date someone much younger or older than one's self these days!
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jaystarstar — 12 years ago(February 26, 2014 04:14 PM)
There was a 12-year difference (Candy b. 1950, Sheedy 1962).
The movie was released in 1991 which made the characters 41-29. Not a thing wrong with that.- You ever seen Superman $#$# his pants? Case closed.
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HarveyManfredSinJohn — 11 years ago(July 04, 2014 10:55 PM)
I really like this underrated movie, and I loved the moment where after Candy's brother, played by Kevin Dunn, implies Candy is too good for Sheedy he is taken to a mirror and asked to point out, in all honesty, what he sees (in reference to Candy and Dunn's less than hunky looks).
However, I still kind of agree with the posters, including the OP, who have stated that Ally was too attractive to play a 'plain girl'. Perhaps she isn't a 'knock out' by Hollywood standards but I think it's a stretch to call her 'plain'. It might have been interesting to see a genuinely plain actress in the part.
Then again, beauty is in the eye of the beholder, and I suppose the point is that although Sheedy was far from unattractive she was hardly very 'glam' either. Maybe Dunn was thinking his brother should get with a more conventionally glamorous, curvy, big-haired blonde type. -
KatzaSchuk — 17 years ago(February 19, 2009 09:26 AM)
I hated the moment when Danny's brother called her plain and told Danny he could do better. It was a totally lie. She may have been shy, but she was perfectly lovely and Danny was lucky to get her.
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zizix — 16 years ago(March 07, 2010 10:01 AM)
I found it pretty absurd when the brother referred to her as "plain".
Though, I never thought she was even supposed to play a "plain looking" girl (which Ally Sheedy definitely isn't) but just a very shy, introverted person. So that doesn't make her miscast, but it does make the brother's comment very out of place. -
Howlin Wolf — 15 years ago(August 18, 2010 02:08 PM)
I think that's Hollywood code for 'pale' and 'quiet'; the characters she plays are often wallflowers, but she really is a beautiful lady.
Maybe the brother is into brash, assertive women, and that's why he makes his comment? We just don't all have the same taste and can sometimes judge the choices of others because of it.
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WarpedRecord — 15 years ago(August 18, 2010 04:40 PM)
Good point. Usually a "plain" actress in Hollywood would be one who doesn't go out of her way to be noticed, who has a "normal" job where she's not bossing others around, who is oblivious to her beauty. That would apply to Ally Sheedy's character here, but I find the woman herself positively radiant in all her roles. Of course, part of her appeal is that very subtlety.