Tune in Tomorrow... (Aunt Julia and the Scriptwriter) (1990)
Average Rating: 6/10
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Fresh: 5 | Rotten: 6
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Average Rating: 6.2/10
Critic Reviews: 5
Fresh: 2 | Rotten: 3
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Average Rating: 3/5
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Movie Info
Tune in Tomorrow is based on Mario Vargas Llosa's novel, Aunt Julia and the Scriptwriter. In New Orleans, circa 1951, a news writer for a local radio station, Martin Loader (Keanu Reeves), meets and falls in love with his aunt Julia (Barbara Hershey), a divorced woman who is looking for a new husband. Meanwhile, new-in-town eccentric radio-soap-opera writer, Pedro Carmichael (Peter Falk) has been hired to help boost the station's bad ratings. Pedro begins manipulating Martin and Julia's affair
Oct 26, 1990 Wide
Jan 7, 2003
HBO Video
Cast
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Peter Falk
Pedro Carmichael -
Keanu Reeves
Martin Loader -
Barbara Hershey
Aunt Julia -
Hope Lange
Margaret Quince -
Bill McCutcheon
Puddler -
Patricia Clarkson
Aunt Olga -
Peter Gallagher
Richard Quince -
Elizabeth McGovern
Elena Quince -
Jerome Dempsey
Sam/Sid -
Dan Hedaya
Robert Quince -
Buck Henry
Fr. Serafim -
John Larroquette
Dr. Albert Quince -
Robert Sedgwick
Elmore Dubuque -
Henry Gibson
Big John Coot -
Danny Aiello III
Large Albanian Man #2 -
Paul Austin
Donald Loader -
Paul Burke
Albanian Protester -
Joel Fabiani
Ted Orson -
Crystal Field
Josephine Sanders -
Mert Hatfield
WXBU Engineer -
Jayne Haynes
Aunt Hortensia -
Shirley Horn
Jazz Singer -
Ishmond Jones
Waiter -
Howard Kingkade
News Man Detroit -
Robert Kramer
Jamie -
Adam Le Fevre
Large Albanian Man -
Anna Levine
Faith Hope -
Ray McKinnon
Cub Reporter -
Irving Metzman
Producer Detroit Radio -
Bill Moor
Duke Vermont -
Aaron Neville
Neville Brother -
Dedee Pfeiffer
Nellie -
Richard Portnow
Uncle Luke -
Marcus Roberts
The Wynton Marsalis Ban... -
Richard B. Shull
Leonard Pando -
Jon Van Ness
BrentMarconnochie -
Jack Wallace
Policeman -
Todd Williams
The Wynton Marsalis Ban... -
Peter Maloney
Luther Aslinger -
Mary Joy
Frances Loader -
William Murray Weiss
Peter Loader -
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Michael White (I)
The Wynton Marsalis Ban... -
Jack Harvey
Fireman -
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All Critics (15) | Top Critics (8) | Fresh (5) | Rotten (6)
The film begins in a giddy, enjoyable tribute to its own ingenuity, which by its ending has worn thin.
Top CriticA tri-layered tale of love, creative impulses and dial-spinning, it comes and it goes, evocative and a little bit magical, flawed but forgivably so.
Sometimes we laugh easily, sometimes uncertainly, and sometimes we just look at the screen and wonder why anyone thought that was funny.
The movie spends too much time with the Aunt and not enough with the Scriptwriter.
Can't avoid but tuning out of this one!
Amusing and clever
This could easily be a made-for-TV movie.
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July 31st, MMXII: Aaaand there's a good reason for that. This movie tries too damn hard and just doesn't have what it takes. It's not funny. At best it's droll, but you can pick out the spots where you're supposed to laugh and just don't. I can think of only one gag that I found amusing. I spent most of the running time of this movie looking at my watch. Every character that was supposed to be endearing was wooden at best and irritating at worst. Peter Falk was the worst offender. I watched this movie all the way to the end before I realized that I had sat through this piece of crap once before. I just wish I had learned the first time.