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The Buddy System
A school truant officer uncovers a young boy's attempt to fake his residential address and subsequently befriends the kid and his mother.
| Release : | 1984 |
| Rating : | 5.8 |
| Studio : | 20th Century Fox, |
| Crew : | Production Design, Set Decoration, |
| Cast : | Richard Dreyfuss Susan Sarandon Nancy Allen Jean Stapleton Wil Wheaton |
| Genre : | Drama Comedy Romance |
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Reviews
Yawn. Poorly Filmed Snooze Fest.
Boring, over-political, tech fuzed mess
Strong acting helps the film overcome an uncertain premise and create characters that hold our attention absolutely.
Blistering performances.
This is a delightful 80's movie & what's wrong with it being predictable..yes, I love movies that you don't know what's going to happen, but every once in a while I love a movie i don't have to guess through. This is a feel good movie. You want to be the characters in this movie & it leaves you with a warm & nostalgic feeling! Richard Dreyfus is a marvel & he makes everybody that plays with him seem to be a marvel. There are not enough good words to talk about Susan Sarandon. She is as fine an actress as can be. it was great seeing her young & so beautiful. It was very strange however to see Jean Stapleton in this movie. Very weird to see her out of her Edith Bunker character.
Nicely done warm fuzzy movie. We have single moms with nice kid, Odd guy with warm heart and sexual icon running around, a dominant mother and severalanimals and ducks making us smile. This movie should not be analyzed onlyappreciated. It's like chicken soup and a warm blanket on a cold day, always appreciated.I think the world needs these non-threatening, nonintellectual, fantasies toremind of the magic of movies. Richard Dreyfuss has done a few of these and this ranks high in my favorite Susan Sarandon movies.
This is almost the exact same movie. Just like the "Goodbye Girl". All you do is make Dreyfuss character an inventor and turn the little girl into a little boy and voila, "The Buddy System"! I am sure that Richard Dreyfuss was desperate to have another hit, so he picked something that was close to his last one. Too bad it wasn't as good.If you can't get out and there is nothing to do, it is a nice enough movie to watch. If you can see the "Goodbye Girl" though, WATCH IT!!
Dreyfuss stars in the same role as his Eliot Garfield in "The Goodbye Girl," while Sarandon plays an insecure single mother in this rather shaky romantic comedy. It's all typical. Boy meets girl. Nothing too exciting.
