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Perfect cast and a good story

One of my all time favorites.

Like the great film, it's made with a great deal of visible affection both in front of and behind the camera.

It is an exhilarating, distressing, funny and profound film, with one of the more memorable film scores in years,

Just saw this film on Amazon. Well worth the watch for anyone old enough to remember the days of "The Big Three" network television, where the guest stars were almost as regular as the series stars.That said? I got the sense Ms Oliver never quite 'fit in' to whatever task, professional or otherwise, she was pursuing. The possible exception being her early theater days.She obviously was a very bright woman with plenty of talent, never mind the devastating good looks. And while most of the interviewee's recall a very vivacious and positive spirit, with a good nature? I just got the sense she always wanted to be somewhere else, deep down inside.I was very saddened by the manner of her passing, in which it seemed she was really tired of fighting, and or living.And I'm not being critical of her here. This was just how I interpreted this film.The doc itself really hadn't hooked me at first. It almost seemed like a bland old "A&E" bio from the 80's, without the high production values.But in the last half hour, a sudden abundance in attention to her deeper personal life grabbed me. Her relationship to her mother, lack of a long term relationship, childless, and eventually the manner of her death was just? Sad. There is no other way to describe it, for me.I'm glad the doc was made, as Susan's is a story worth telling.Things may have been much different for her, in terms of her aspirations, had she been born 10-15 years later.Again, for those from this era, I'd recommend this.

I had no idea who or what The Green Girl is or was. Now I find myself having seen it three times, each more interesting and fulfilling than the last. Unexpectedly, one of the most interesting things was learning more fully about an entire industry through one person. About movies, television, about it's people, actors, directors, related persons, history, literal behind the scenes interactions, meaning generally and specifically, than I ever conceive imaginable. At the same time much broader and much narrower than I could have ever thought possible. Then comes the surprising shocker of all as a documentary. It hit me with what I expect from real entertaining invigorating movies. It has drama about drama about drama. It elicits feelings and emotion about the very people and things that are themselves initiated and formulated to elicit feelings and emotions in the first place! first about the subject person, secondly about the people intimately acquainted with the subject person. And also, not the least, about the person, people, background, processes, contacts, research methods of who made this movie / documentary; and how this movie / documentary came to be born in the first place, and how things unfolded as it was made. It has that ineffable something that keeps bringing me back to see it again. I might not be done yet. I might see it A forth time. I already know I'm going to see Few Options a second time. Touching, insightful, educational, and interesting. Yes, both of them, that's interesting, and perhaps even strange. - Thank you again, George

Disclosure-I donated on Kickstarter, saw this in a theater prior to DVD release, am not an employee, am not related to cast or crew and not connected with Hollywood. ***WARNING-SPOILERS AT BOTTOM***First, Thank You to Susan's family, friends and co-workers who took their time to reminisce about her and share photos and other items and to the crew.Susan Oliver died in 1990 in obscurity, but news travels fast today on the Internet. Curiosity and technology caused George Pappy to use his iPhone to see Susan's IMDb page, he read her autobiography and this set into motion events that made this movie. The dedicated crew made this for less than $80,000, with much hard work, wearing of multiple hats, frequent flier miles and countless Tweets and Facebook posts. Amy Glickman-Brown did a fantastic job sifting through hours of B&W and color footage to showcase Susan's life. Since some footage is over 50 years old and of varying quality, a considerable amount of time was spent on digital video noise reduction. Much of Susan's dialog is from scripts, so Elizabeth Brown excellently acts as her voice, speaking life from Susan's written words. The soundtrack music is unobtrusive and smoothly augments the movie's flow. Production finished in the nick of time, as Peter Duryea died during filming and Nancy Malone, Biff Manard, and Mira John Slovak died before the DVD release. The Director's commentary elaborates on some topics and mentions an outtakes DVD will be made. When all film, television, still photo, print and web credits are listed, it's an amazing amount of time, research, travel, legal work, editing and test screenings to produce a 96 minute documentary! I saw Susan first in 1976 in "The Menagerie". In late 2012 on Antenna TV, I saw her in "The Naked City", went to IMDb and saw "The Green Girl" link. This DVD showed me many things about Susan; I saw the M*A*S*H episode she directed, many of her movies and television appearances, read her autobiography and would've loved to have met her. I spoke with fixed and rotary wing pilots about aircraft flight characteristics and I'm amazed Susan crossed the Atlantic alone in a single engine plane with 480 flight hours; she really was driven! Susan had many facets: actress, record setting pilot, writer, director, humanitarian (flew for Easter Seals) and "a good egg" to name a few and she strikes me as someone who would probably have succeeded in almost anything she attempted. For a such a stunningly beautiful, fascinating woman who brought much joy to millions, sadly her life was not very happy. I've bought several DVD's for friends who like Star Trek and one is a retired military pilot. ***FINAL WARNING-SPOILERS BELOW***In the DVD, my favorite photos of Susan are: holding the 1970 Powder Puff Derby trophy, in pigtails, smiling brightly from ear to ear, as pilot Margaret Mead talks nearby in a telephone booth and wearing a flight suit near a military jet. The last scene is a black screen with white letters captioning Susan's words as she leaves a farewell message on a relative's answering machine. Presented without music, each sound, the answering machine beep, the original cassette tape's limitations and the receiver hanging up sound is perfection. The crew gives Susan the final word in her own voice, some of the last words she ever said to loved ones. Rest In Peace.

A good documentary with the most clips of Susan Oliver's career that will ever be assembled. As such it is also a valuable overview of the early days of television. However, several problems come up that call into question the resources and abilities of the filmmakers. The chief one is a lack of interviews or reflections from significant television and film industry peers. Ms. Oliver worked with scores of top-level actors, many of whom are still with us, yet none deigned to be in this documentary, despite almost certainly being asked. Especially curious is the absence of Jerry Lewis, with whom she made several movies and was clearly a friend who offered to pay her hospital bills at the end. We are left with heavy screen time given to lesser-known performers, some of whom didn't even know she was a pilot, undermining their own credentials as intimates. The one notable exception was David Hedison, although even he is hardly a household name. The film also heavily relies on lesser-known Hollywood writers, production people, and friends, many of whom are posed with their books (and sometimes artwork), offering plenty of praise but little real insight into Ms. Oliver's life and work. While famous people don't necessarily a good documentary make, their complete absence from this film undermines both the claims of Susan Oliver's importance to the industry and the professional credentials of the filmmakers...to say nothing of seriously hurting the film's chances of garnering mainstream interest. The documentary also makes no attempt to put any of Ms. Oliver's work or life into perspective, by use of a narrator or any analytical framework. The film is an endless series of TV and movie clips and talking head testimonials...there is no over-arching voice to bring it all together and offer up any kind of summation on who Susan Oliver was and why she might be important and worth remembering. Details about her personal life, especially her puzzling romantic liaisons and the obviously complicated relationship with her famous astrologer mother, are given a quick once-over. We are only given hints as to whom she may have had relationships with, and while privacy is always sacrosanct, a documentary that doesn't at least attempt to delineate the home life of its subject becomes more a curriculum vitae than a true story of a person. One can't help but feel the filmmakers kept things light in an effort to do honor to Ms. Oliver. That they did, but the documentary finally leaves one with the same feeling one has about Susan Oliver's career: it was oddly incomplete, and less than it should have been.