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Good movie but grossly overrated

The film may be flawed, but its message is not.

The movie turns out to be a little better than the average. Starting from a romantic formula often seen in the cinema, it ends in the most predictable (and somewhat bland) way.

The film never slows down or bores, plunging from one harrowing sequence to the next.

I found this a strange little movie that seems part serious drama about some damaged people, part comedy, part romance, part just entertainment. The fact is all over the place may account for a lot a people not being too high on this movie. So it is not a great movie but I found a number or things to like. So Burt Lancaster chews up the scenery - he always has no matter what he was in. It is classic Lancaster at his best. Margot Kidder carries the movie with a mostly unlikable character. Everyone else is mostly filler and scenery. Ted Danson's character is a real loser who with Margot's character mostly heal each other in the end. I like to watch it every 3 or 4 years so I can look for the little bits that forgot since the last time.

Stripper Margot Kidder goes to Mexico to meet her estranged father Burt Lancaster. First she meets American drifter Ted Danson, who shows movies to the locals from the back of his van. He takes her to meet her dad, who she learns is dying and wants to leave her with directions on how to find some money he buried from his bank robbing days. So Margot hooks up with Ted and these two crazy kids try to make it work while thinking about Papa's buried treasure.Lancaster's not in the movie for very long but he hams it up while he's around. His daughter Joanna was one of the producers so it's entirely possible that's the only reason he did this. Margot Kidder is the main star and she's chewing scenery all over the place. Reportedly she and Lancaster did not get along. It's easy to see why as they are both trying to out-ham each other at every turn. That death scene is like something from a Saturday Night Live sketch. Ted Danson comes off as the most likable member of the cast but not enough to save even a single scene from the tediousness that envelops this entire movie. The pace is very slow and the movie is mostly boring, save for the moments of unintended comedy such as Kidder's impromptu dance routine in a cantina. Not something I would recommend. The last name of Lancaster's character might amuse Superman: The Movie fans who watched this for Kidder.

Over the years I've heard many good things about Little Treasure and it was a real disappointment. Margot Kidder isn't bad (playing a character called 'Margot'!) but Ted Danson is awful. The film hinges on a bizarre triple-reference for the phrase 'little treasure' that is very misogynistic and not appropriate to go into here. Burt Lancaster is also dreadful, wittering on about a long-dead friend of his called Scobie and spending much of the first half of the film (before he thankfully dies) walking around with his rotting foot in a birdcage. If that sounds bizarre, it is! But not at all entertaining. I would miss this one.

A charming little film. Margot Kidder turns in good piece of work as the stripper searching for her dream, and thinking of her G-string as a sort of psychological protection from the sleaziness of her world. I've never much cared for Ted Danson, but he is pretty good here as the semi-no-account drifter who falls for Margo. The pace is a bit slow here, but the film gets better as it goes along.