Sheila Levine is a Jewish-American princess and a native of Harrisburg, Pennsylvania. An innovative, bright, but painfully introverted individual, she comes to New York City with her mother and father to take an apartment with a nightclub-hopping roommate. Persuaded to go to a nightclub one night, she meets a doctor named Sam Stoneman who is on the hunt for a one-night stand…
Director: Sidney J. Furie.
Writers: Kenny Solms, Gail Parent (novel).
Stars: Jeannie Berlin, Roy Scheider, Rebecca Dianna Smith, Janet Brandt, Sid Melton, Charles Woolf, Leda Rogers, Jack Bernardi, Allen Secher, Lynne Pope, Jon Miller, Noble Willingham, Richard Rasof, Evelyn Russell, Don Carrara, Sharon Chatten, Karen Anders, Craig Littler, Sandy Helberg, John Morgan Evans, Charles Walker.
This film was truly Dynamite. Never heard of it before.
Saw this (on ABC I believe) in the mid-70s, never again till now. Flabbergasted to find it, thanks so much!
Request-wise: A widescreen HARD CONTRACT would be an early bday/xmas present, as the youtube version isn’t quite awesome looking. Had a VHS from TCM’s airing 20 years ago, but that one busted.
It’s on Youtube:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i3foaMsABpA
Only copy available atm in widescreen AR, very poor quality :'(
Insanely terrible yet boring. Not Berlin’s fault. Bad script, bad director, bad Legrand score.
Awesome film, Berlin and Sheider are fantastic, and Legrand’s score is lovely.
What a find, thanks!
It has so little to do with the book I wish they had changed the title. The premise of being dead (almost) is just not part of the plot anymore. Not many laughs either.