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...used to think that old age invited a regression to childhood, and, I suppose, the Depends sales chart powerfully continues to argue the accuracy of that opinion. But the members of the"?Active Adult" community centered around the Boynton Beach Club are of a different mind: Susan Seidelman's film shows them reverting to sex-obsessed adolescence. If, as the saying goes, Hollywood is high school with money, then retirement is, according to this movie, high school with Social Security checks and AARP cards...
...group, the ostensible purpose of which is for them to share the pain they all feel at the loss of spouses, the real intent of which is get them back in the dating game. The unspoken assumption of Boynton Beach Club, which is derived from an idea proposed by Seidelman's own mother, who is credited as one of the movie's producers, is that loneliness is a fate worse than - well, yes, death. It is not exactly the ghost haunting the attic of this movie's mind. It is, at best, an inconvenience to be surmounted by busy work...
...Hollywood, the director was the guy in the safari jacket and jodhpurs who ruled the set with the whip of machismo. Now the person who calls the shots is often a woman. Pictures by such directors as Amy Heckerling and Susan Seidelman are both making money and dragging a reluctant film industry into the age of equal opportunity...
...Hollywood's most honored typecasting: the macho movie director. They have done it the old-fashioned way, by making movies that make money. Amy Heckerling's National Lampoon's European Vacation earned some $50 million at the box office and finished among 1985's top-ten-grossing pictures. Susan Seidelman's Desperately Seeking Susan raked in $27.5 million on a $5 million budget and graced many a ten-best list. Now that, as Seidelman notes, "women directors are no longer looked at as novelty items," their more established sisters can get back into the act. Barbra Streisand...
This is the voice of middle-level power speaking. It has cried out and been heard; now it can demand more. Chances have been taken, gambles won. Seidelman, 33, notes, "Desperately Seeking Susan had a female director, a female producer, a female writer, two female stars and a female executive, Barbara Boyle, who helped us get the go-ahead. If the film had bombed, it would have presented a broad target. Failure is a luxury not yet afforded to women." But Susan succeeded, and its momentum helped reduce the risk factor for hiring first-time women directors. Randa Haines...