Rich and Famous

Name: Rich and Famous
Genre: Drama
Released: October 9, 1981
Duration: 117 min
Rating: 52
Cast: Candice Bergen, Daniel Faraldo, David Selby, Hart Bochner, Jacqueline Bisset

1981

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Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM) | Release Date: October 9, 1981 | R

Starring: Candice Bergen, Daniel Faraldo, David Selby, Hart Bochner, Jacqueline Bisset, Joe Maross, Matt Lattanzi, Meg Ryan, Nicole Eggert, Steven Hill

Summary: Liz (Jacqueline Bisset) and Merry Noel (Candice Bergen) become friends as college roommates and their friendship endures over the years. Liz becomes a respected "serious" novelist. Merry Noel marries, has a daughter and writes, too: "trash" fiction which becomes enormously successful. Their story begins in college and jumps ahead some yearsLiz (Jacqueline Bisset) and Merry Noel (Candice Bergen) become friends as college roommates and their friendship endures over the years. Liz becomes a respected "serious" novelist. Merry Noel marries, has a daughter and writes, too: "trash" fiction which becomes enormously successful. Their story begins in college and jumps ahead some years at a time to show their relationship with each other and those in their orbits as they grow and mature.… Expand

Director: George Cukor

Genre(s): Drama

Rating: R

Runtime: 117 min

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Judith Martin

This particular kind of social satire, a quick and deft combination of fashions in clothes, words and romance, can be done better on the screen than in books, where it requires the enumeration of too many details, or on stage, where the details can't be seen. Rich and Famous, directed by George Cukor, does it brilliantly. [9 Oct 1981, p.21]

David Ansen

This swiftly paced comedy is a deliciously impure compound of old-fashioned "women's film" formulas and up-to-the-minute sexual mores. It is, from moment to moment, trashy and touching, literate and ludicrous, bitchily funny and as full of sharp, sophisticated insights as it is of appalling blind spots. Part soap opera, part comedy of manners, it refurbishes shopworn cliches into a gloriously unrespectable entertainment. [12 Oct 1981, p.98]

Staff (Not Credited)

Considering neither Bisset nor Bergen had ever shown the slightest acting ability before in movies, their performances in the Bette Davis/Miriam Hopkins roles in this loose reworking of Old Acquaintance are very capable. Read full review

Dave Kehr

The lead performances, by Jacqueline Bisset and Candice Bergen as two college friends who become competing novelists in later life, have the Cukor audacity without the Cukor grace, and his visual expressiveness is in evidence only sporadically. Yet the film stays in the mind for its dark asides on aging, loneliness, and the troubling survival of sexual needs. Read full review

Vincent Canby

The movie can't make up its mind whether it's about a tumultuously difficult but rewarding friendship or whether it's a sendup of the contemporary literary scene. It fails as both. Read full review

Gary Arnold

The new movie adorned with this sure-fire title happens to be a tacky and disreputable attempt at a sophisticated comedy about women writers. Read full review

TV Guide Magazine Staff (Not Credited)

This could have been--and is--a very funny film; unfortunately, most of the laughs are unintentional. Read full review

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