Wordiezett So much average

Guillelmina The film's masterful storytelling did its job. The message was clear. No need to overdo.

Geraldine The story, direction, characters, and writing/dialogue is akin to taking a tranquilizer shot to the neck, but everything else was so well done.

Isbel A terrific literary drama and character piece that shows how the process of creating art can be seen differently by those doing it and those looking at it from the outside.

SnoopyStyle Dennis Pitt (Anthony Perkins) gets released from a mental institution. He has a tendency to tell fantastical lies. He is taken with teen Sue Ann Stepanek (Tuesday Weld) and pretends to be a CIA agent. She is wildly eager to believe him. He gets fired and engineers a mission to sabotage the factory. She joins him on his mission, kills a security guard, and steals his gun. Her mother threatens Dennis over Sue Ann.Perkins is never forceful but always has that creepy off-centered presence. Sue Ann's quick acceptance of his lies is a little odd. There is an interesting switch in the power dynamics as her strange naivety turns into disturbed manipulative Lolita. It would be great to have more sexuality in the manipulations. This is plenty dark but I want the tone to be even darker. This is a fascinating little movie.

powjsp19 The content and plot of this movie had much suspense. Tuesday Weld and Anthony Perkins were terrific. One thing that needs to be mentioned here was the fine filming of this movie,not the director so much but the way this was superbly shot by David L. Quaid. Hitchcock would have been proud. The shots down the stairway when when Sue shoots her mother and the subsequent collapse and fall backward with breakfast going all over the place. The scene at the bridge when the " bomb" is being placed. David Quaid must have been in the water for this shot.Then the collapse of a part of the bridge and the death of the worker.Even the shot at the outside diner car at an angle captures Sues' psychotic look near the end of the movie.

brefane A fine, atmospheric thriller and an absorbing psychological drama that makes a few cogent sociological observations as well, the aptly titled Pretty Poison is based on Stephen Geller's novel She Let Him Continue and is the only film of note from director Noel Black who gets uniformly persuasive performances from the entire cast especially Beverly Garland and John Randolph, and the finest, most nuanced performances of their careers from Anthony Perkins and Tuesday Weld who as Dennis and Sue Ann are more complex than Bonnie and Clyde, Butch and Sundance, and Thelma and Louise. The highest compliment I can pay to Perkins and Weld is that they are simply believable, and they are a credit to Lorenzo Semple Jr.' script which won the NY Film Critics Circle award for best screenplay. This sleeper along with four other 1968 releases: Night of the Living Dead, Faces, Rosemary's Baby, and Rachel,Rachel, is one of the essentials of 60's American cinema. Released without fanfare by 20th Century Fox, Pretty Poison is rarely shown and the remake is, UNsurprisingly, inferior. The original is available on DVD, and definitely worth your time and money.

christopher-underwood This is a very unusual and quirky movie with great performances from Tuesday Weld and Anthony Perkins. It is also a bit of a worrying film in that everybody seems a bit unbalanced or at least not quite up to scratch and we are never quite sure where it is going to go. At first things seem straightforward enough, in fact Perkins' fantasies/make-believe tales for Weld are becoming just that much too silly when the whole thing takes off when the little lady gets a bit bigger. Not just a little bit bigger, either because she begins to dwarf Perkins. All very well done for no sooner have we begun to write Perkins off as an out and out psychopath, he becomes all vulnerable and we are forced to begin to re-evaluate Weld. My only criticism is that the film should have either been more hard nosed or played the whole thing for laughs more. Listening to the director at the start of the commentary on the DVD it seems that there was a deliberate attempt by the studio to soften the effect following the real life assassinations of the time. Well worth watching.