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...their heads, perform in an assortment of styles that range from self-parody to self-abuse. Jerry Orbach makes the most soporific leading man since Sonny Tufts, and the grandiose incompetence of Jo Van Fleet as the foul-mouthed Big Momma would be hard to equal. However, Robert De Niro, as a kleptomaniacal bicycle racer, and Leigh Taylor-Young as his perennially startled paramour, somehow manage to bring a small degree of charm and reality to the lamentable goings...
...made a quirkish little black comedy called Pretty Poison. None of the shrewd, chilly humor present in that effort can be detected in Jennifer on My Mind. There are only two small bright moments: Peter Bonerz does a funny, lamentably brief turn as an unctuous psychiatrist. And Robert De Niro appears as a speed-freak gypsy cab driver who doesn't want to take Marcus to Oyster Bay. "Come up, see my sister instead," De Niro leers. Marcus declines, and as De Niro hurls his purple Day-Glo cab into gear, he screams, "The gypsies lose again...
Originally and more aptly titled Son of Greetings, the movie chronicles the further adventures of Jon Rubin (Robert De Niro), one of the stalwarts of the original film. Returned from Viet Nam, Jon gets right into the swing of things by buying a 16-mm. camera and becoming the protege of a pudgy master pornographer. He sets up his tripod in his tenement apartment and plays a Peeping Tom game of Rear Window with the tenants of the massive co-op across the way. He even winds up marrying one of them (Jennifer Salt). By this time his film career...