Robert De Niro, Allen Garfield, Lara Parker
Vietnam vet John Rubin returns to New York and rents a rundown flat in Greenwhich Village. It is in this flat that he begins to film, 'Peeping Tom' style, the people in the apartment across the street...( read more
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DVD Release Date: December 7, 2004
Stats: 91 reviews
Before turning into a suspense auteur, Brian DePalma directed this subversive little film, heavily inspired by the vanguardist french nouvelle vague. A sequel of "greetings" in which he let DeNiro run the show with amazingly funny results.
"Greetings" was good but the sequel "Hi, Mom!" is astonishing, easily the best of Brian De Palma's early comedies and still one of the greatest films he has made. It's overflowing with terrific ideas and is brilliantly shot and edited, retaining a vitality and an awesome power in...( read more)
Weird, funny send up of the end of the flower-child generation and the beginning of the "me" generation. De Palma shows that he can handle satire if only given the chance.
Why can't De Palma keep making movies like this, It's not perfect but it is alot more ambitious than the last few films he's put out. It's counter cuture satire that still holds up today. Whats incredibe is that you would think De Niro would just be ok with this being one of fir...( read more)
it's not good, but that sequence in the middle with the play sticks with you, and De Niro is fantastic.
I'm a big supporter of avante-garde filmmaking. This is just off the charters. The pseudo-porn DeNiro tries to make. The gentrification guerilla torture - too long and bizarre. Maybe this would have been less weird if I was high.
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