good to watch on a rainy day
Added 10/19/2009
This is not a movie I would suggest for everyone, but good to watch on a lazy afternoon or something like that.
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It was okay,
Added 8/6/2009
It was an okay movie, but most parts came over kind of weird. And the chronology of the scenes were messed up. Or something.
IT was really confusing to watch, and I was kind of disapointed. The acting was great, but the script or just the whole movie was just lacking something.
And the ending for me just plain sucked. It was so plain and..I don't know, unsatisfying. Thw whole thing would have been better as a play. Which was what it started out as,right?
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less than faithful. copy of "faithful"
Added 1/6/2009
Confusion reigns. I was about to buy the fun movie with my favorite actor, Chazz the Jazz, and who in the heck are these stand in actors anyway? No Chazz, no Ryan, lucky to have Cher?
If we are selling pirates, who done in the oh so clever scriptwriter/actor, Chazz? And ohhhhhh,Chazz, where are you now?
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Faithful?To be or not to be with fatal possibilities
Added 9/17/2008
I agree with several other Amazon reviewers this movie is underrated. I cannot understand why for example, Leonard Maltin's professional reviewer accords it only two stars.
The title tells all: it is a film that is basically about what does it take to label somebody as being unfaithful? At one point Margaret -Cherilyn Sarkisian or "Cher"- challenges the mafia's hit man Tony -Chazz Palminteri- whom somebody has hired to kill her when he admits to be "rather unfaithful" with "What do you mean? You are either faithful or unfaithful?". " Tony's definition of not having sex in a sexual relationship is similar to Bill Clinton's.
Unlike Moonstruck, however, Faithful is not Oscar material (although I can easily think of some Oscar winners of poorer quality than this movie) but strangely enough Cher does a better job as Margaret in this film than even in her outstanding performance in Moonstruck in which she co-starred with a rather blah Nicholas Cage. Perhaps because her role and lines here are better despite the movie being much less skilfully structured than in Moonstruck. The criticism that it is based on a stage play that doesn't translate so well on the screen is invalid. Films such as Kenneth Branagh's Henry V and Al Pacino's The Merchant of Venice, as well as the older "The Importance of Being Ernest" of Anthony Asquith were all originally stage dramas but still went well when adapted to the screen.
I first saw a bit of this film on TV some years ago when we were set to go out for dinner and it was already well in progress so there was no point in taping it. A few days ago it came up on TV again I recorded it in case we got drowsy (like most good films shown on Greek TV channels it began at 11 pm). However, we managed to stay awake and I am certainly going to see it again now I have the tape. Warning: the film is rather flat for the first 30 or so minutes with Cher doing a good job but Chazz Palminteri taking rather long to ease into his role as the reluctant neurotic hit man. ( Incidentally surely Amazon has erred in not listing Chazz as one of the actors despite his key role in Faithful but has several comparatively unknown persons shown who only briefly appear? I mean Chazz not only co-stars with Cher and O'Neal but was a co-writer and co-producer of the movie!) From then on the film builds up with several twists, turns and red herrings in the plot. I agree with one remark that the tacked on epilogue is blah and unnecessary, it should be edited out for the next DVD release and relegated to the deleted scenes part of the bonus material.
Yes this is not an action movie. So if you have had a bad day in the office and need to relax with a good no-brainer don't watch it tonight. The film's value is mainly in the word exchanges in a very dry humour suitable for a black melodrama (comedy is a bit misleading). We laughed at many points,- much more times than in many a so-called screen comedy- but not to the extent that we were rolling on the floor. A pure light and absurd comedy such as Danny Kaye's in The Court Jester classic is needed to produce that result in our household. Earlier the same evening I'd watched the constant and rather comic action film Red Heat starring Arnold Schwarzennegger and James Belushi, so we needed to view something somewhat more cerebral late at night. I agree with some other Amazon reviewers that the film merits a second viewing once the plot is unravelled by the first screening to really appreciate what is going on in the Cher-Palminteri-O'Neal triangle. If you want to watch an enjoyable movie that demands your attention and respects your intelligence, this is it. But be relaxed first. It's like enjoying a fine wine or single malt whiskey, and has to be taken and savoured sip by sip.
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love one another YES
Added 4/24/2006
even though i have never seen Faithful i have an extreme like for her!! i like cher so much that i used to have 24 cds till two were no good and i think 2 i gave to two very special friends but my modo is when there is a will there is a way and when there is a way there is well you know!
anyway cher and helen reddy are my #1 favorites! and i am not a person who will say that they performed BAD OR GOOD!!!
cher is an excellent actor and i am still surprised that she does not like her voice while singing! she is a talented singer and a talented mom, talented actor well she is good at alot of things.
i love to watch her movies ! 1 Tea with Mussulini VHS {i think thats how you spell it ;} 2 Believe tour VHS 3 SUSPECT and excellent crime solver! VHS 4 Cher Greatest Hits CD 5 Cher Sonny and Cher CD 6 Moonstruck an excellent lovestruck movie with cher and nicholas cage VHS! 6 Cher Fitness for people who love to work out VHS ! 7 Believe Album CD 8 Believe Remix Album CD 9 Cher CD Album with dark blue background and cher with black hair back length CD 10 If I Could Turn Back Time CD Album 11 Cher Living Proof CD Album 12 and many more that i have as well !!! i myself am a cher fanatic!!
Cher and Helen Reddy are excellent singers!!
and i am older than a kid i am a late teen !
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good to watch on a rainy day
Added 10/19/2009
This is not a movie I would suggest for everyone, but good to watch on a lazy afternoon or something like that.
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It was okay,
Added 8/6/2009
It was an okay movie, but most parts came over kind of weird. And the chronology of the scenes were messed up. Or something.
IT was really confusing to watch, and I was kind of disapointed. The acting was great, but the script or just the whole movie was just lacking something.
And the ending for me just plain sucked. It was so plain and..I don't know, unsatisfying. Thw whole thing would have been better as a play. Which was what it started out as,right?
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less than faithful. copy of "faithful"
Added 1/6/2009
Confusion reigns. I was about to buy the fun movie with my favorite actor, Chazz the Jazz, and who in the heck are these stand in actors anyway? No Chazz, no Ryan, lucky to have Cher?
If we are selling pirates, who done in the oh so clever scriptwriter/actor, Chazz? And ohhhhhh,Chazz, where are you now?
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