Rosie O'Donnell's acting in Riding The Bus With My Sister

This movie destroyed the careers of Anjelica Huston, Andie Macdowell, and Rosie O'Donnell.

I must admit, I watch this movie every so often (or at least the Rosie scenes, not the whole movie) and can't stop laughing uncontrollably. It's like a SNL skit. They should have passed it off as a comedy.

This really backfired on Rosie's attempt to make this her 'dramatic actress' project.

And they Data Lounge was OVEH

Makes Rob Lowe in Square Dance seem like a genius.

Oh god, oh man

i came here to post that, R5

One died. Transcendent.

“Is it still raining? I hadn’t noticed”.

Costar Andie has some great acting skills, too.

Can someone translate R3? Is R3 Joey Luft?

Turned me off deviled eggs

Regardless, Rosie was playing a real person.. She met her, hung out with and her interpretation is how the real Beth is. Growing up she was called severely retarded, Now she's diagnosed as Autistic,

yet Sean Penn almost gets the Oscar

I love the first comment under the video at op's link.

"This movie has aged well."

Seriously? Is that person on crack??

r13 I was thinking this movie was in the 80s or something. Wow.

Am I missing something? It's extreme,but there are people that disabled in real life and if that's what she's supposed to be portraying it's actually pretty accurate.

Opie and Anthony’s (I know, I know) Jim said when this came out, “she’s not acting. This is the same voice she used to goof on the slow kids back in Commack!”

It was funny when Huston was going around promoting her two volumes of autobiography (terrible, btw) she made sure nobody mentioned this. According to her the only movie she ever directed was Bastard out of Carolina.

R15 Yeah, I guess you're missing her bad acting.

[quote]It's like a SNL skit

Watch and compare. I don’t know which came first but I’m team Kaitlyn

Rosie?

I am Sam was hilarious

Everybody knows you never go full retard.

[quote]t was funny when Huston was going around promoting her two volumes of autobiography (terrible, btw) she made sure nobody mentioned this.

Geez, can you blame her ?

I guess someone said to Rosie:

"This dramatic turn will be great for your career. It will be your Emmy you've been craving - the one that will show the world you're a serious actress aside from being a comic. It will do for you what 'Friendly Fire' did for Burnett. What 'Stone Pillow' did for Lucy. This is your moment to shine, Rosie."

And Rosie believed it.

Dats da suck job!

[quote]I guess someone said to Rosie: "This dramatic turn will be great for your career. It will be your Emmy you've been craving - the one that will show the world you're a serious actress aside from being a comic. It will do for you what 'Friendly Fire' did for Burnett. What 'Stone Pillow' did for Lucy. This is your moment to shine, Rosie."

It was undoubtedly My Friend Julie.

R12, I won my first for copying her.

I don’t think it ruined any of their careers.

Hilarious review of this dreck!!!

Rosie is looking for a toilet seat?

It’s hard to watch clips of this because it’s so awful. I die of secondhand embarrassment.

Have to say, this performance may be questionable. but Rosie is brilliant in the series MILF, playing the lead character's (probably bipolar) mother. Not kidding, a masterful performance.

In the trailer at R1, I can't believe that they actually used the R-word to promote the film.

What year was this??

Now we have 2 threads a year on this amusing shit show. It's a bit much. Do you all have OCD?

Howard Stern and Robin Quivers discussing Rosie's acting in the movie.

They're absolutely HORRIBLE!!

R30 For crissakes, you must mean SMILF. Which was last on 6 years ago.

Get out of your crypts, you sad old codgers.

Time marches on.

Did you see the porn version, Riding My Sister On the Bus?

[quote] Did you see the porn version, Riding My Sister On the Bus?

See it?

I LIVED it!

Here is the thread from 10 weeks ago.

Lol at R33.

That was pretty brutal.

I can just imagine Anjelica Huston watching her first screening of this movie.

Rosie hamming it up on film, and Anjelica recoiling in horror, as she announces to the room, "Oh, no no no. This will simply NOT DO!!! I'm ruined!!"

The bus driver is cute and pleasant.

It’s hilarious how it’s so terrible that even Stern and co are restrained. They don’t have to do anything but play clips.

From the film’s Wikipedia page:

“The film, like the book, is about the time Simon spent with her sister Beth, who has a developmental disability,”

Excuse me?

A review on IMDB:

I lived in the room above the laundromat used in the movie. The day before they started filming I broke my leg at work. I was a roofer in those days, and managed to shoot myself in the tibia with my nail gun (honest, it shouldn't have fired without my finger on the trigger but it did).

I had no idea they were filming a movie. And first thing in the morning I hobbled down the stairs and the first person I saw was Rosie O'Donnell, having a conversation with my landlord and when she saw me she asked what happened, I told her I was a rooter and broke my leg. Apparently everyone in my building had been informed about the movie except myself, my landlord figured I'd be working those hours and didn't tell me about it. I was then informed that I either had to stay home all day, or stay behind the yellow tape. I told them that wasn't possible as I had a doctor appointment and had nowhere else to go in the meanwhile and I will come and go as I please, and needed access to my bathroom.

Geeze, they solved the problem by giving me a stool right behind Anjelica Huston for the whole 3 days of the shoot!! I was able to talk to her all the time, but didn't... I listened and watched. When she didn't appear busy I talked to her and mentioned her Grandfather and asked how it felt to be in Canada again.

She was just so down to earth, and didn't treat me like an irritating pest.

I don't recommend breaking your leg as a way to meet Hollywood stars, but you can't get Andie MacDowell to sign your cast unless you do.

It was filmed in Toronto?

Her grandfather, Walter Huston?

I liked Rosie in Another Stakeout and Exit to Eden

with the right director, Rosie could give a very good performance

In the water, she's a very skinny lady.

I liked her in Nip/Tuck. She was extremely convincing as a trashy powerball winner.

I've never heard of Another Stakeout, r46. I'll have to check that out.

Am I dreaming…did Juliette Lewis also play a developmentally disabled individual?

Several times r50 but only once intentionally i think.

Leo did it best and I'm not kidding.

Meredith Baxter did it too, as Winnie.

I never heard of this movie or this performance, but when I played the clip, after a little while I started laughing out loud.

So did Linda Purl and Shaun Cassidy in the 1979 TV movie Like Normal People.

Also, Leo DiCaprio.

[quote] It’s hilarious how it’s so terrible that even Stern and co are restrained. They don’t have to do anything but play clips.

I'm shocked at how many times both Stern and Robin used the R-word.

And not just the R-word, but the one that's an actual slur.

A very twisted friend gave me his Emmy screener of this years ago, knowing it would be the perfect present.

She was definitely tard-coded in Kalifornia, r50

What was her other retard movie r58?

She also played a retarded teenager in Cape Fear and a retarded floozie in August Osage County, r59.

I forgot about those. She also seems a bit slow in Natural Born Killers.

In the past, Sian Barbara Allen was the go-to retarded girl.

Juliet Lewis was a bit "special" in Romeo Is Bleeding.

I’m started to wonder if maybe Juliette Lewis is just retarded

Interviews with Rosie and Andie.

Like Normal People, with Linda Purl and Shaun Cassidy, premiered on ABC on April 3, 1979.

BUT—No Other Love, with Richard Thomas and Julie Kavner, beat it by a week-and-a-half, premiering on CBS on March 24, 1979.

I guess 1979 was a very special year...

Rebecca De Mornay should have been in this movie, playing Rosie's nemesis!

I had an English Lit prof who said Gertrude Stein was retarded.

How has nobody remembered the masterful performance of Jodie Foster in, « Nell »?

Also Cliff Robertson

Rosie recently had dinner with Linda Purl and Patrick Duffy. Three legends.

Rosie recently had dinner with Linda Purl and Patrick Duffy. Three legends.

Did they ride the bus?

Of course I have flawless taste. Have you seen my new neck?

[quote] I'm shocked at how many times both Stern and Robin used the R-word. And not just the R-word, but the one that's an actual slur.

Ma’am, get off of Datalounge.

[quote]Am I missing something?

Quite a few cues, and maybe a few brain cells.

Are you "riding the bus?"

Maddie Ziegler in Sia's film Music. I can't believe this got greenlit just a few years ago.

Is she retarded too?

R77 = Rebecca DeMornay.

Being from Boston that was one of the great childhood insults:

Ah you re-TAH-ded?

Boom-a-wang-wang-wang-BOOM-a-wang-wang!

"Boom-a-wang-wang-wang-BOOM-a-w - ang-wang!”

Performed by the No-Tones, from Children of a Lesser God!

DING DING DING! We have a winner!!!

I think OP meant, "Acting" in the title.

Rosie O'Donnell's bad acting aside....

The dialogue for the movie was fucking horrible, too!

What was the point of the story?

I just watched a short clip, and it was boring as hell.

Of all people, I would never have expected Anjelica Huston to make a terrible movie like this.

Did she think it would win her an award, or something?

[quote] Being from Boston that was one of the great childhood insults:

This reminds me of a story from a previous workplace. I was introduced to someone I was sure had special needs. After shaking their hand, I thought "it's really great this company is so progressive when it comes to hiring those with developmental disabilities!". And a minute later, the guy sitting next to me goes "isn't his Boston accent so cool?". I was secretly mortified and laughing simultaneously.