Sunburn
August. 10,1979A model and a private eye help a New York insurance investigator on a deadly case in Acapulco.
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I like the storyline of this show,it attract me so much
Pretty good movie overall. First half was nothing special but it got better as it went along.
In truth, there is barely enough story here to make a film.
By the time the dramatic fireworks start popping off, each one feels earned.
Richard Sarafian's "Sunburn" is very much lighthearted comedy. It's not a movie that'll give you belly laughs, nor is there anything serious or explicit about it. Most of the humor derives from Charles Grodin's and Farrah Fawcett's personalities bouncing off each other. Nonetheless, the movie is a neat look at Acapulco (although I'm sure that the city is a lot more developed now), and the car chase at the end is to die for. That's what it is. Nothing special, just a plain old comedy/murder mystery.Aside from the main stars and Art Carney, other cast members include Joan Collins, William Daniels (Dustin Hoffman's father in "The Graduate"), Keenan Wynn (Bat Guano in "Dr. Strangelove") and Alejandro Rey (Carlos Ramirez on "The Flying Nun", on an episode of which Fawcett played one of his love interests).
I remember being very upset when Farrah left TV and started making movies. It was before VCRS and DVDS so once she was gone there was no way to see her every week. The movies that she made once she left didn't help with getting your Farrah fix. She still looked beautiful, but they didn't capture her personality the way her TV show was able to. This is a starring role for Farrah Fawcett (her second film after leaving Charlie's Angels) but it is Joan Collins who turns out to be the sexier of the two and who steals the film despite her small role. Charles Grodin is seriously miscast and makes the film hard to watch. Luckily the scenery is beautiful and so are the two women. This was the movie that made me realize how sexy Joan Collins really is. Watch her vamp it up in her Pre-Dynasty days.
Based on Stanley Ellin's not-bad mystery novel "The Bind", "Sunburn" became Farrah Fawcett's second attempt to resurrect her TV golden-touch at the movies (it drove her back to television after one more try, the sci-fi bomb "Saturn 3"). It has amusing fashions and disco music, a pleasant ambiance at the outset, lots of sand and sunshine, but a script that becomes murky early on. There are too many sub-plots and incidental characters here (such as Joan Collins in an indescribable bit). The central relationship between insurance investigator Charles Grodin and model Fawcett (posing as his wife) is curious but unsatisfying, and Art Carney has very little to do as a gumshoe. Not a disaster by any means, and '70s aficionados will soak up the clichés, but it's easy to see why "Sunburn" never attained much of a following: it's a commercial for Acapulco--not a movie. *1/2 from ****
This is one of my all time favorites. For pure entertainment value. I usually go for much more thought provoking films, but this one was fun. I saw it originally on cable many years ago. I still hear the 10cc song "I don't want to lose you. Dadda dadda da dah" and think of putting lotion on Farrah's back side while she lies with that bed sheet seductively covering her!(Which was much more enticing than actually seeing a nude scene.) With the dry comedy of Grodin, and his way of making you believe it could be you and the always likeable Art Carney I just wish I could've been there in Mexico with them. I almost became a Insurance Investigator! I wish I could find this on video. Stranded on an island, this would be one of my 5 films to keep.