Stephi is spoiled, a bit self-centered and something of a nag, but (thanks to some three-dimensional playing here) you just know how much she caares about Travis and how she only wants to make him happy. (They're both virgins.) He has dreams of fancy cars and panting blondes, dreams followed by nightmares of Stephi locked inside his queasy stomach - dressed in her wedding gown. Travis has never been to a big city and has never owned anything fine, anything to call his own, and has never been with anyone except Stephi - and he hasn't really been with her. Travis and Stephi are absolutely crazy about each other and, what's more, they were made for each other. Travis' family breeds horses and is strictly lower middle-class, while Stephi's dad, "Bull" Lawrence (the name says it all), is admired as the local "manure mogul." Travis Rogers and Stephi Lawrence have lived in Waxahachie, Texas, all their lives, on their families' respective farms. The man and the woman here are essentially kids, just barely out of high school. And, as in most romantic comedies, the man and woman here are each outraged by (and attracted to) an element in the other's character. It's the familiar battle of the sexes and, although the film comes with an undeniable '80s feels, it has a sweet, unpretentious touch that's ageless. Men here, represented by the groom-to-be, are painted as dreamers, while women, in the form of his sweetheart and future wife, are seen as realists.
Set on the eve of a wedding, "It Takes Two" deals with what men ostensibly want (hot cars and hotter women, and lots of them) and what women want (love and a security that might be restricting). Which exactly describes "It Takes Two." But it was too late for Beaird's film. In 1989, Steven Soderbergh's "Sex, Lies and Videotape" would become the darling of film festivals and would open the door for small, edgy films dealing with real-life man/woman issues. "It Takes Two" was ahead of its time by just a few months. It is very much an independent film but no one grasped that back in '88, largely because of unfortunate timing. It was half-heartedly released (by United Artists, then on its last leg) and casually dismissed by critics (that is, those who bothered to see it). There is an inclination to call this a lost film but, the fact is, this is a movie that was never found in the first place.
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13 years and two days later.I finally get to see this movie to update this.David Beaird's "It Takes Two," from 1988, is an unusually accomplished and knowing little film, at once enchantingly funny and shrewdly observed. Never found this on DVD but just happened to find it in HD on Amazon.
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I hadn't seen it on TV in a long time so I tried to capture the end of it. Quote I only caught the tail end of this movie. I can't say if Talbots are now complete bangers or not - so many of them were disposed of over the years you can hardly see any on the road. PSA only developed one Talbot on their own, the rather nice Samba (rebodied Peugeot 104) - although the Peugeot 309 was actually initially conceived as Talbot Arizona and only rebadged as Peugeot in the last moment (when PSA decided to do away with the underperforming Talbot), hence the "out of step" number. It didn't prove overly popular due to a combination of different reasons, one of them being the fact that Chrysler Europe was already falling flat on their face, which is why Auburn Hills sold them to PSA for $1 or something (provided PSA would take their debt). Talbot was resurrected when PSA (Peugeot Societe Anonyme which absorbed Citroen just before) acquired the remains of Chrysler Europe (Rootes Group, Simca), and it served as a brand for the models they took over (old Simcas and Chryslers, including the COTY Horizon and 1307/Alpine). I wonder what happened to Talbot, they used to make such stylish cars
I like to see old car adverts from the 80s and early 90s (sometimes they turn up when you watch a film on an old video), they are like a timewarp, you see extremely dated and obsolete cars that are now complete bangers looking all new and shiny. I only caught the tail end of this movie. See all comments about this movie and its vehicles AuthorĬhase between the Lamborghini and Ferarri:
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