Word: mayron
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Susan (Melanie Mayron) is a New York Jewish girl paying her dues as a photographer on the bar mitzvah and wedding circuit while waiting to hit the big-time. Her roommate and closest friend, Ann (played rather woodenly by Anita Skinner) is an aspiring poet who leaves Susan to get married. Susan painfully adjusts to living alone, her career advances sporadically, and after floundering awkwardly through two romantic attempts, she finally settles down comfortably in love...
WEILL'S APPARENT PURPOSE is to focus on the friendship of the two women, but she shifts to a study of Susan. While it is Mayron's performance which makes Susan such an attractive and humorous character, not all the problems with the character of Ann stem from Skinner's weak performance. Ann hovers in stereotypically suburban settings, seeming not only distant from Susan, but from the camera as well. One finds her cold and unsympathetic, and even the original friendship seems implausible at times...
...picture gets in trouble very early. The opening scenes, meant to establish the title characters, are much too sketchy. Susan Weinblatt (Melanie Mayron) comes across as little more than a standard Upper West Side ugly duckling, like TV's Brenda Morgenstern: she is a sassy, overweight Jewish woman who is luckless with men and still struggling in her career as a photographer. Her roommate Anne Munroe (Anita Skinner) is an even more familiar type-a svelte, high-strung Wasp with ambitions to write poetry. When Anne leaves the nest to get married, her relationship with Susan starts to deteriorate...