Comments on: RIP Charles Grodin

By: OlderandWheezier

OlderandWheezier — Thu, 20 May 2021 19:05:07 +0000

For the record, chorizo and eggs is awesome.

By: lynnblc

lynnblc — Thu, 20 May 2021 04:50:43 +0000

You got me to watch the movie again. One of the best road trip and buddy movies of all time. They were so young and beautiful.

By: Cicero

Cicero — Thu, 20 May 2021 03:32:40 +0000

Midnight Run is one of the best movies ever.
Grodin and De Niro basically seem to have played themselves, personality-wise, particularly DeNiro as this arrogant ass who stands for little that is moral or of spiritual value. Until the end of course.
I like morality plays, like the Western movies of the 1940s-1950s, when you could tell the bad guys because they wore black hats, and you knew they would end up in hell well before the movie’s end.
I hope Grodin had a happy life.

By: Fractal Rabbit

Fractal Rabbit — Thu, 20 May 2021 00:43:34 +0000

May he rest in peace. Midnight Run is a fantastic movie. I have fond memories of it because it was one of the first ‘R’ rated movies I was allowed to watch with my dad when he rented the VHS. We laughed ourselves silly.

By: NCC

NCC — Wed, 19 May 2021 23:52:22 +0000

Midnight Run is a great film. One of the most underrated of my lifetime.

By: Aggie

Aggie — Wed, 19 May 2021 23:29:09 +0000

I thought Grodin was excellent in “Heaven can Wait” as well. He seemed to specialize in the characterization of a polite, cringing, deferential, devious ingrate, in a very understated and funny way.

By: The Deej

The Deej — Wed, 19 May 2021 23:25:27 +0000

“I’m a white collar criminal.”

Grodin’s delivery of that line, and the kid’s reaction, really tickled me. I had to rewind it and watch it again about five or six times.

By: Yancey Ward

Yancey Ward — Wed, 19 May 2021 23:14:03 +0000

That was a great and fun movie. I haven’t seen it as often as Neo, but more than twice which is true of only about 10 films for me. It is one of those movies that when I come across it surfing the movie channels, I will stop to watch it for 10 or 20 minutes.

And, yes, that scene with the ex-wife and the daughter is very moving.

By: DNW

DNW — Wed, 19 May 2021 22:04:45 +0000

I guess other people noticed it too. As if the guy’s CV would have been forgotten about by everyone but sharp-eyed DNW.

Was right there in the link

“Early in his career, Grodin was in the running to star as Benjamin Braddock in The Graduate (1967), then played an obstetrician in Rosemary’s Baby (1968).”

That’ll teach me.

Not sure what, exactly. But something.

By: DNW

DNW — Wed, 19 May 2021 21:51:51 +0000

I think he played the treacherous doctor in Rosemary’s Baby.

She finally found her way out of the maze and to a sympathetic, real world grounded rescuer …

Well, nope, actually.

Of course that was another fundamentally dishonest movie … a stacked deck. But it sure made an impression on people.

I never saw it till years after its release, it showed up on late night TV