Glenn Close in "Maxie" (1985)

I have to admit that I couldn’t sit through this one…

Maxi Pad

It was just...silly.

We watch it every Thanksgiving! Oh, how we laugh!

1985. Must have been a huge flop. Can't find it streaming anywhere except on youtube. DVD costs $100 on Amazon.

Looks like my kind of movie. I'll have to watch it.

[quote]She had to be embarrassed by this one, right? Even more than "Albert Nobbs."

At least ALBERT NOBBS earned her an Oscar nomination.

And another Oscar loss.

It fails to froth.

Lots of terrible film were made in 1980s, most were stupid and boring.

[quote]r8 = most were stupid and boring

Now they're absolutely Marvel-ous!

“How could such a good cast - Glenn, Mandy Patinkin, Ruth Gordon - make such a stinker?“

OP - I know you’re asking this rhetorically, but no brilliant cast can overcome a terrible script. If it ain’t on the page…

She redeemed herself pretty quickly. Jagged Edge came out a few weeks later and was a huge hit.

Maxie wasn't as bad as people on DL make it out to be. She got a Golden Globe nomination for it.

So you bitches mention Glenn, Mandy, and that old hag Ruth. What about me? I was in it, too, ya know.

[quote]She got a Golden Globe nomination for it.

Yeah, they don't just hand those out, do they?

Looked it up on Youtube. Why does it look like a TV sitcom?

I liked the book it’s based on titled “Marion’s Wall.”

Gordon's best acting starts at 2:36.

"Maxie" was supposed to launch Glenn as Hollywood's next leading lady after several acclaimed performances in supporting roles, but the movie landed with a thud. Miss Close seemed to lack the pizzazz and oomph to essay a free-spirited jazz floozy, and as mild-mannered Jan, she seemed self-conscious and deliberate in her acting choices.

The movie was based on the novel Marion's Wall (1973), which Paramount Pictures had optioned the rights to, with the intention of casting Liza Minnelli in the title role, but the project never materialized. I could definitely see Liza in this role.

HBO used to show it constantly back in the day along with Jagged Edge.

I am not Meryl but that backless dress isn’t doing her no favors….

That film must have been made back when they didn't pressure actresses to be stick thin. Glenn looks so healthy and bouncing in her tablecloth there.

It does have a sitcom or TV movie feel about it. Enjoyed the 1985 San Francisco street scenes. That's about it.

R16 Glenn's attempt to sound like a 1920s talkin' picture actress is cringe-worthy.

"Powdah?" Oh, come on, Glenn.

Has anyone seen Glenn in the TV movie “Something About Amelia” where she discovers that her husband (Ted Danson) has been raping their older daughter?

Ruth Gordon died one month before the movie premiered. At least she was spared from seeing this one flopping so badly.

She’s a triple threat, just like me!

R23 and if I recall correctly she sticks by Ted and keeps the family together. I saw this as a young teen and can still recall the queasy feeling it gave me.

I enjoyed this movie immensely. I bought a DVD copy from a guy who ripped VHS tapes and made pretty high-quality DVDs from them.

Guess I'm the only one that liked it

I saw this in the cinema on a trip to New York. The thing I most remember are the creases on Mandy's face. He looked better with a beard.

She was kind of stuffed into that curtain she was wearing...pig.

His ass was virtually creaseless in "Yentl."

This was turned into a West End musical called "Maddie." It flopped big but did get a cast album and a book about "the making of."

Hey I got a kitchen remodel on my country home so it wasn't all for naught.

1985, huh?

Ah, yes. I remember it well. That was the year I starred in Best Picture winner "Out of Africa," receiving my sixth Oscar nomination.

Leeza Gibbons cameo?

I was really rooting for this movie. I really liked the actors. My wife and I sat there, more and more aghast at how horrible it was, when it took a plot turn that was SO stupid, so VERY stupid, that my wife and I looked at each other and wordlessly got up, put on our coats, turned around -- and found that we were the only people left in the theater.

This one of those titles I always saw available at Blockbuster and thought I should get around to see it. Glad I didn't

Poor Glenn, those were the cunt years for Mandy. And he was a cunt to Streisand, so you know he'd have had no problem cunting at her.

They should have gotten another actress to play Maxie, also her being played by Glenn made no sense and her doing that horrible squeaky voice was just annoying.

R35 It's been so long since I've seen this movie, I can't quite remember the plot turn.

Was it Glenn Close's character's decision to let Maxie take over her body so Maxie could star in a Hollywood movie?

She resisted at first R39, but eventually, she decided to go along with the idea.

Don't forget my husband.

The Glenn - Meryl meme is so fresh and funny! It's the wit that keeps me coming back for more!

The trailer

The two of us cheered when Glenn punched Mandy.

My mother's boyfriend when I was in junior high school to high school owned a local chain of video stores. He'd bring every movie ever home for us to watch the Sunday before they were supposed to hit the shelves (on Tuesdays, I think.) We seriously watched HUNDREDS of movies.

"Maxie" is the only one I remember someone finally taking out of the machine and moving on. And we watched a ton of truly horrible movies.

is this the movie set where Mandy Patinkin forced everyone to watch him perform the entirety of Camelot?

OP- Albert Nobbs is her transman alternate personality.

DL is not the place to look for fresh or funny, R42, but it's cute you think so.

Glenn sings.

R49. Sure she does...

She's no Norma Desmond.

R44 = every two people in Hollywood who have ever discussed Mandy Patinkin

It's weird to remember that Mandy was once attractive and not just annoying.

"Were," R37? When did they end? Because they sure resumed by the spring of 2000.

R46, you're thinking of HEARTBURN, but it wasn't the entire score of CAMELOT -- "just" the entirety of CAROUSEL's "Soliloquy."

But it felt longer.

OP, I doubt that Miss Close was terribly "embarrassed" by ALBERT NOBBS -- a project that she herself more or less lugged to the screen nearly 30 years after she played the part Off-B'way, securing her 6th Oscar nomination in the process.

Or as we call it at my house, her 6th act of ritual humiliation.

R53 = Kathryn Grody

[quote] is this the movie set where Mandy Patinkin forced everyone to watch him perform the entirety of Camelot?

I would kill to hear his Julie Andrews.

"Oh, Genevieve... Saint Genevieve... it's Guinevere, remember me?"

Have you seen the Deliverance? I don’t think she embarrasses easily.

R60 She probably thought she was gonna get an Oscar nomination for Maxie in the same way she thinks she's gonna get an Oscar nomination for The Deliverance.

It's a sweet, feel-good film that was stable fodder in the 80s. You at least get to see a tiny bit of the Ambassador Hotel.

Although I often wonder if Trudy died while they were in Hollywood and they missed the funeral. And did she leave them the building?

I agree, R62. I love reading about the 1920s. The movie's a fun romp.

Both sets of my grandparents were born around the turn of the 19th/20th centuries. They were all in their 20s in that decade, and they all seemed an interesting lot. My paternal grandmother died in 1935, but came from Canada. From what I learned she was care-free and free-spirited. My maternal grandfather (the son of immigrants on the East Cast) had a love affair before marrying my grandmother while in medical school out West. The woman was from a wealthy family who broke up the affair -- thinking he was a gold digger. The woman he later fell for -- my grandmother -- had enough wits and smarts about her to escape a hard scrabble life on a farm. I knew her as common sense woman who was also very much a lady.

I have pictures of all of them from the 1920s. My maternal grandfather looking very handsome in a big cawl-collared sweater/robe; my good-looking paternal grandfather jacket-less, still with a necktie, wearing suspenders in a canoe with an oar in hand wearing a big smile; my paternal grandmother in bobbed curls/perm with a big smile on the arm of my grandfather, and my maternal grandmother with bobbed hair looking very pretty as she sat for a formal photograph in a flapper's dress.

I would have loved to have known them then

Glenn plays a woman so sexless that even a horny priest is not attracted to her.

Whimsy is very hard to pull off and multiple dog reaction shots don't help.

A rare flop for Glenn. As has been mentioned, she was excellent in Jagged Edge from the same year.

I think the consensus was that a significant portion of the audience was dissapointed upon viewing when it became clear that this was not the life story of the woman who invented the first feminine hygiene product that could be inserted internally, as most would have expected seeing Glenn Close's name above the title.

This movie must have one of the quickest under-the-cover blow jobs in cinema history.

Most women avoid married men. I improve them.

Glenn should mount MAXIE: The MUSICAL! since she will never be Norma on the big screen.

R70 she'd have to mountain SOMEONE to get that vehicle made into a musical or anything else.

R71 Bitch, then do it.

Jeez, what a crowd. Looks like a convention of blind dates.

Go peddle it elsewhere, lady. The goods look damaged. My man aint buying.

Maxie?

Yes, she already was rather large at that time.

If you've ever wanted to see and hear Glenn gargle in public, this is the movie for you.

Now boss lady, will you take your arm off him or will I just take your arm off.

Here I am looking at my wife's face, my wife's body, and I'm telling you I don't want to be unfaithful with you. This is nuts.

I don't get the hate for Albert Nobbs. I love that movie and Glenn is heartbreaking.

OP- Mandy Patinkin looks like Noah Wyle.

Someone's always scotching the party.

Maxie chasing after Mandy prefigures Alex Forrest maniacally chasing after Michael Douglas.

I saw this in the cinema and really enjoyed it. It was lighthearted, with a few laughs and a touching performance from Ruth Gordon. I was able to get a DVD at a reasonable price a couple of years ago, and the film holds up on rewatching. I think its biggest problem is the editing. It constantly gives the impression that you're watching an "edited for television" version that is missing some scenes...

I can resist any woman from Eve to Greta Garbo.