S.O.B.
Director: Blake Edwards
Year Released: 1981
Rating: 2.0
"Satire" of Hollywood by Edwards: burned-out director with a tremendous flop of a movie decides to re-shoot it with his wife (Julie Andrews) topless - he realizes, after fifty-plus years of age, that sex sells and not sappy goodness like song-and-dance numbers and whiskers on kittens. Physical comedy and potty jokes are humorless and don't work - everyone seems to be screaming over everyone else to be heard, especially yelping lunatic Richard Mulligan. Some nice touches sneak in, like the entirety of Robert Preston's performance as a free-spirited doctor (as well as William Holden playing ... William Holden) and the "great actor" that dies by the beach in the first scene but whose visibly exposed corpse doesn't get recognized until the middle of the movie, but the rest of it is just bloated.
