![]() Yet, an Ayn Rand-ian opportunist/feminist read would encourage Trisha for taking whatever physical liberties that she could before promptly disposing of him- behavior not unlike many a man. One feminist reading in which Trisha’s initial “no” must rightly mean no is problematic to the movie’s conceit that Strip is in fact a worthy guy. ![]() Pull down the theoretical optometrist refractor, begin switching critical lenses, and you could be there all day. Interestingly, this is where varied readings of Moment by Moment tend to collide. It no doubt helps that Strip is portrayed by Travolta at peak youthful effervescence. Somehow, against certain odds, Strip is revealed as genuine, and their affair begins in earnest. This bombshell turns the tables, leaving Trisha desperate to make it up to him. Sooner than later, however, she offends him with that insinuation, causing him to walk out stating that “You rich people are all naturally suspicious”. Trisha is no fool, suspecting that this pest is nothing but a gold-digger. ![]() Strip offers her illicit sleeping pills, which he overheard her pharmacist denying her. She occupies her luxurious California beach house all alone as she quietly tries in vain to get her life back on track. Strip is a lonely puppy-dog of a guy who, for the first twenty minutes of the film, pesters the faint acquaintance Trisha to justifiably restraining-order levels. Eventually, they fall in love, though, quite authentically, it’s never an easy relationship. But it’s also purely a character drama, the story of two disparate people connecting. The story is a simple one- undeniably decompressed, even at times too simple. Even with two of the biggest stars in pop culture playing kissy face on screen, filmgoers and critics ultimately could not abide this sort of thing. The “women’s picture”, a popular genre unto itself through the 1940s, had long since gone dormant in the increasingly male-driven U.S. Moment by Moment was the next one, seemingly ready-made and served piping hot, particularly for a 35+ female demographic. Her crossover to the big screen was spurred on by Robert Altman, who, following a part in his classic ensemble Nashville (1975), produced her first film as a lead, Robert Benton’s The Late Show (1977). Tomlin is actually the top-billed star of this distinct two-hander, already long established as a wildly successful comedian. In the film, Travolta plays a drifting beach bum called “Strip” Harrison (who lives up to his first name a couple of times as he doffs his clothes down to a speedo) who falls deeply in love with wealthy divorcée Trisha Rawlings, played by the older Lily Tomlin. Perhaps more to the point, the nature of the Moment by Moment’s romance was too much. ![]() Despite not being a shambles at the box office, the notion of a non-dancing Travolta was apparently simply too much for audiences to accept. Rolled out by Universal Studios as its major release of the 1978 holiday season, the film quickly acquired a reputation as one of the worst movies ever made. Then came the third and final film of the contract, the romantic drama Moment by Moment. Two of those films were the zeitgeist-rocking musicals Saturday Night Fever (1977) and Grease (summer, 1978), which quickly elevated Travolta to the level of super-famous superstar. In the late 1970s, super-producer Robert Stigwood signed rising TV star John Travolta to a three-picture deal. To learn more about how and for what purposes Amazon uses personal information (such as Amazon Store order history), please visit our Privacy Notice. You can change your choices at any time by visiting Cookie Preferences, as described in the Cookie Notice. Click ‘Customise Cookies’ to decline these cookies, make more detailed choices, or learn more. Third parties use cookies for their purposes of displaying and measuring personalised ads, generating audience insights, and developing and improving products. This includes using first- and third-party cookies, which store or access standard device information such as a unique identifier. If you agree, we’ll also use cookies to complement your shopping experience across the Amazon stores as described in our Cookie Notice. We also use these cookies to understand how customers use our services (for example, by measuring site visits) so we can make improvements. We use cookies and similar tools that are necessary to enable you to make purchases, to enhance your shopping experiences and to provide our services, as detailed in our Cookie Notice.
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