The Pickle

A bad movie ABOUT a bad movie. Is that original, or what? If it is, then that's the only good thing about it. The lovely Ally Sheedy couldn't stop this bomb from destroying movie theaters and VCR's everywhere. It should also... Full review

It's very interesting to think of how very much this movie could have achieved and didn't. It was supposed to be a look at humanity versus consumerism and art versus marketability. The Pickle is actually three movies in one- we have... Full review

Harry Stone's The Pickle is an example of awful film making....Mazursky's The Pickle is an intriguing combination of drama, satire, and farce.....The Pickle (the movie- within-the-movie) is a terrible story about a giant cucumber that's actually a space ship.....The people around him offer support, but little that anyone says or does comforts the poor director..... ... Full Review

Actually, the sci-fi story with Little Richard as the undisputed ruler of Cleveland looks like it might have been an ideal vehicle for Edward D. Wood Jr.. ... Full Review

This fake film is so inexplicably hapless that it undermines the wraparound movie, which apparently exists in the real world. The Pickle " might have worked better if Harry's new work had remained entirely offscreen - described, but not seen. ... Full Review

This morning as I perambulated about during my habitual pre-dawn stroll, I happened upon the Depression-era Cockney bootblack who first appeared in my Scenes From A Mall entry. ... Full Article

B ecause of last year's unrelated but identically titled movie, The Best Man had to become Gore Vidal's The Best Man , which is just as well considering that Vidal is the best thing about it. ... Full Article

"If there's anything you can do to help us . . ." Supervising Judge Harold Shabo sent out this plaintive SOS last week from the aging, decrepit mental-health court, a former mustard-and-pickle factory known as "The Pickle." ... Full Article