BLAME IT ON RIO (1984) ¢ ¢ 1/2
D: Stanley Donen
Michael Caine, Joseph Bologna, Michelle Johnson,
Demi Moore, Valerie Harper, José Lewgoy
A lightweight tropical farce starring Michael Caine as a middle-aged businessman who gets involved with a colleague's teenaged daughter while on vacation in Brazil. Stanley Donen directed, and it's a long way from "Charade" and "Singin' In the Rain", but there's a nice, subversive streak running through it that's kind of fun, and Caine's so good, you might get a kick out of it, anyway. Young Demi Moore, playing Caine's daughter, has a nominally topless beach scene in which her hair appears to be glued to her chest. Michelle Johnson, whose hair is shorter than Moore's, plays the object of Caine's lust.
Stanley Donen
(1924-2019)
