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Kiss Me, Stupid (1964)

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Reviews Counted:20

Fresh:15

Rotten:5

Average Rating:6.4/10

Runtime: 2 hrs 8 mins

Genre: Comedies

Synopsis: In Wilder's smutty low comedy, Dean Martin has little trouble easing into the role of Dino, a womanizing pop singer with a yen for the grape. En route to Hollywood after a Las Vegas gig, he stops... In Wilder's smutty low comedy, Dean Martin has little trouble easing into the role of Dino, a womanizing pop singer with a yen for the grape. En route to Hollywood after a Las Vegas gig, he stops in a small Nevada town, where his arrival is considered a piece of extraordinary fortune by amateur songwriters, music teacher Orville J. Spooner (Ray Walston) and mechanic Barney Milsap (Cliff Osmond). To guarantee Dino's presence and a hearing for their songs, Barney makes a few alterations in his car, while Orville offers his house for the night. But when he learns of the singer's overwhelming need for sex, Orville gets his attractive wife Zelda (Felicia Farr) out of the house and persuades local hooker and waitress Polly the Pistol (Kim Novak) to take her place in case the singer needs special attention. Even so, when Dino makes the predicted moves on Polly, the music teacher still is overwhelmed by jealousy and throws the bewildered singer out of the house. Dino seeks refuge in a nearby bar, only to find Zelda drowning her sorrows. [More]

Starring: Dean Martin, Ray Walston, Kim Novak, Felicia Farr

Starring: Dean Martin, Ray Walston, Kim Novak, Felicia Farr, Cliff Osmond, Barbara Pepper, Doro Merande, Henry Gibson, John Fiedler, Mel Blanc

Director: Billy Wilder

Director: Billy Wilder
Producer: Billy Wilder
Screenwriter: Billy Wilder, I. A. L. Diamond
Composer: André Previn

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Jul 15, 2003

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Characteristically cynical, clever and brash, it's helped out enormously by the performances of Martin, Farr and (particularly) Novak...

Full Review Source: Time Out | comment Comment
06/24/06
Geoff Andrew
Geoff Andrew
Time Out

Undeniably lewd, Kiss Me, Stupid exemplifies the go-go Rat Pack sexual sensibilities that fed the American appetite in the dawn of the sexual revolution.

Full Review Source: Austin Chronicle | comment Comment
03/10/03
Marjorie Baumgarten
Marjorie Baumgarten
Austin Chronicle

In any event, this has to rank as Wilder's most corrosive and despairing portrait of America.

Full Review Source: Chicago Reader | comment Comment
01/01/00
Don Druker
Don Druker
Chicago Reader
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Kiss Me, Stupid is unlikely to inspire a Broadway musical, top an AFI poll, or birth a hundred-dollar coffee-table book, but it could burnish Wilder's posthumous reputation.

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06/18/02
J. Hoberman
J. Hoberman
Village Voice
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It just doesn't get very good until halfway through, in large part because the usually excellent Walston is miscast.

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08/15/02
Andy Klein
Andy Klein
New Times

Both Martin and Novak are at their near best, and the undertone of small-town desperation in Wilder and I.A.L. Diamond's script is effectively captured by Walston and his sidekick, Cliff Osmond.

Full Review Source: Chicago Reader | comment Comment
01/01/00
Jonathan Rosenbaum
Jonathan Rosenbaum
Chicago Reader
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What separates 'Stupid' from so many of the so-called 'sex comedies' of the period is its combination of cynicism and directness. Beneath the teasing and the titillation there are some genuinely provocative themes...

Full Review Source: Kalamazoo Gazette | comment Comment
08/05/03
James Sanford
James Sanford
Kalamazoo Gazette

I recommend Kiss Me, Stupid to the skeptical with no reservations whatsoever.

Full Review Source: New York Observer | comment Comment
06/25/02
Andrew Sarris
Andrew Sarris
New York Observer
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There was the sharp contrast of surface-banter and concentration on detail; of unpredictable laughter, brushed off by disciplined professionalism.

Full Review Source: New York Times | comment Comment
01/01/00
Murray Schumach
Murray Schumach
New York Times
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Whatever ambitions this romantic comedy might have had, they were never realized.

Full Review Source: Ozus' World Movie Reviews | comment Comment
11/24/06
Dennis Schwartz
Dennis Schwartz
Ozus' World Movie Reviews

Wilder, usually a director of considerable flair and inventiveness -- has not been able this time out to rise above a basically vulgar, as well as creatively delinquent, screenplay...

Full Review Source: Variety | comment Comment
08/15/07
Variety Staff
Variety Staff
Variety
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Sprinkling in bad jokes and Rat Pack references, Dean Martin's comic timing and delivery is impeccable -- as he parodies and deconstructs his image as a notorious lover and drunk.

Full Review Source: TV Guide's Movie Guide | comment Comment
08/15/07
TV Guide's Movie Guide

Novak is surprisingly affecting as the whore who is determined to make something of herself.

Full Review Source: Channel 4 Film | comment Comment
05/24/03
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08/11/08
Jeffrey M. Anderson
Jeffrey M. Anderson
Combustible Celluloid

Early production problems show, still fun Wilder

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10/19/04
Steve Crum
Steve Crum
Kansas City Kansan

Stunningly subversive, even for Wilder.

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10/03/02
Nell Minow
Nell Minow
Movie Mom at Yahoo! Movies

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01/21/05
Thomas Delapa
Thomas Delapa
Boulder Weekly

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08/17/06
Lori Hoffman
Lori Hoffman
Atlantic City Weekly

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06/15/05
Emanuel Levy
Emanuel Levy
EmanuelLevy.Com

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10/15/02
Philip Martin
Philip Martin
Arkansas Democrat-Gazette
 
 
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