Modern day 'Marty'
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Archived from the IMDb Discussion Forums — Only the Lonely
arobicpro — 15 years ago(November 26, 2010 10:08 AM)
So many parallels between the storyline and characters in this movie with the 1955 classic movie "Marty." Two lonely people, both in their 30's and still living home with their parents. The male lead, not so attractive, used to getting snubbed with an overbearing mother who thinks he has his pick. Then mother becomes afraid of losing the son, all the way down to wanting to sell the house. Ethnic differences between the characters. There are just too many similarities for this not to have been what the screenwriter had in mind.
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jaystarstar — 12 years ago(October 11, 2013 10:26 PM)
And, in some ways, it was.
Although while Danny's friends/brother were somewhat crass and obnoxious in their opinions of Teresa, they were nowhere near as flat-out asinine and repulsive as Marty's moronic sidekicks in the 1955 film.
That gave "Marty" a real mean-spirited subtext in that it left you with the feeling the best thing for him to do would be to tell his "friends" to F themselves and hit the Fing road - as long as he hung around with those losers his chances of ever meeting any kind of attractive or personable woman were exactly zero (actually less than zero any woman he was likely to get involved with while still associating with them would likely be a neurotic, self-loathing, immature, dependent ding-a-ling).
At least "Only the Lonely" ended on a hopeful note that Rose would allow Danny to step out on his own a bit and be his own man.- You ever seen Superman $#$# his pants? Case closed.
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greenpen33 — 10 years ago(November 21, 2015 12:53 PM)
I agree! I was just about to post the same thing before seeing that you beat me to it. It does definitely seem like it could be defined as a modern remake of "Marty." There are definitely sufficient similarities. With that said, "Marty" appears pretty modern in its own right for being made in the 1950s! We discussed how modern it appears for its time when we watched it in my film class.