Friday, February 10, 2006
Cocoon
- Who's watched: M & G
- Mentions: *1* *2*
- Commentary: This is not an often watched movie of ours. Sometimes my mother can stand it, sometimes she can't. Same with me. We both have a little bit of a problem with the dancing couple, although they add outrageous comic relief. We both agree there are a few offensively clichéd depictions of the elderly but, overall it's clean. Mom's favorite relationship is the one between the couple whose wife has advanced dementia. Mine is the relationship between Jessica Tandy's and Hume Cronyn's characters.
Update 5/14/2020: It is interesting to note, here, that, throughout our companionship, which lasted for 15 years, my mother never thought she had dementia and acted as though she didn't. Maybe this is partly because she was only mildly demented, if you want to classify her condition (and, while she was alive and we were companions, I never did) and partly because I never treated her as though she had dementia. I mean, never. If she had some difficulty that might have been chalked up to dementia, I treated it as though it was simply a human difficulty, not a demented-human difficulty. I mean, brass tacks here: All the difficulties, all of them that manifest, sometimes profusely, when someone is demented also manifest, in lesser degrees, sometimes much lesser to non-existent degrees, in people who aren't classified as demented. And that's the truth [imagine a loud raspberry, here]!
Actor Role Actor Role Actor Role Actor Role Don Ameche Art Selwyn Gwen Verdon Bess McCarthy Wilford Brimley Ben Luckett Maureen Stapleton Mary Luckett Hume Cronyn Joe Finley Jessica Tandy Alma Finley Jack Gilford Bernie Lefkowitz Herta Ware Rose Lefkowitz Brian Dennehy Walter Steve Guttenberg Jack Bonner Tahnee Welch Kitty Linda Harrison Susan
Here's a link to the Wikipedia write-up of the film.
Release Date: 1985
Directed by Ron Howard.
Labels: aliens, dramedy2, fantasy3, hume-cronyn, popcorn-and-soda4, science-fiction2
