THE FABULOUS BAKER BOYS!

Pure Delight! And what a cast in THE FABULOUS BAKER BOYS! for our Friday Movie Suggestion Night offering this week. If you are just plain fed up with the lack of imagination and passion the Hollywood grist mill churns out, you will love this movie. Basically, brothers Jack and Frank Baker (Jeff & Beau Bridges) are cocktail lounge piano players who have played exhaustive gigs in every hotel and bar imaginable for years. When the work becomes sour and for Jack--downright painful regarding his unfulfilled ambitions--the brothers decide to spice things up by adding what else? A little charm and sex appeal in the form of chain-smoking siren and hard bitten realist in Susie Diamond (Michelle Pfeiffer), a beautiful songstress. As is often the case in bands--small or large, emotions run high and low as Jack begins to fall in love with Suzie. The sibling rivalry between sex addict Jack and happily-married Frank is funny. I should mention that Meg Tilly is not to be missed in a small role that cracked me up!

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Michelle Pfeiffer will drive the men in the Blogosphere crazy sliding across the piano top in a slinky red dress. Viewers who don't know this next fact will be surprised: Pfeiffer can sing! I've never heard a better cocktail lounge version of "Making Whoopie" in my life! Her smoldering sexuality radiates and forces the defensive Jack, trapped in his own frustrating hell of lost opportunities and meaninglessness to confront his inability to open up his heart and become emotionally vulnerable to Pfeiffer. This dynamic creates a strain on brother Frank, as Suzie's unexpected audition and hiring brings forth an unexpected outcome.

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Academy Award Nominations: 3, including Best Actress for Michelle Pfeiffer & Best Cinematography & Editing. Golden Globe WINS include Best Actress & Nomination for Best Original Score. Steve Klove is the Screenwriter and Director. What we have here is three people who are confronting a mid-life crisis, where the best of life and ambitions may or may not be behind them. Watch and see!

Enjoy All!