Sunday, January 29, 2012

The Happening (1967)


Columbia Pictures
Directed by Elliot Silverstein
My rating: 2.5 stars out of 4
IMDb
(Sony Movie Channel)

Bored teenagers in Miami wake up after an all-night party looking for "kicks". They stumble on Anthony Quinn in his mansion and decide to kidnap him. Quinn telephones all of the important people in his life asking for money but they turn him down. Dismayed, he turns the tables on the kidnappers and helps them extort even more money from his "friends". A good idea that is not fully developed, the film is content to play for laughs which are not really there instead of exploring the more serious themes it raises.

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