I don’t know if there was any conspiracy against Caruso or Long. Either of them could have avoided career purgatory if their instincts for selecting scripts weren’t so awful.
Ok - it’s the next day now - let’s talk. I didn’t set out to bash, I’ve read the satire explaination; I just called it as I saw it. Awful central performance, clunky dialogue, cliched plot etc.
However one thing that did puzzle me; the burger motif. On several occassions she apparently celebrates her freedom/success/whatever by eating a burger. Most strikingly when sitting on the bonnet of a car looking at the neon lights of the Starlight at night. A comment on consumerism? A surrealist joke? Any thoughts?
MiM
I caught a bit of it last night. It seemed campy and I could see why people get a kick out of it.
Not together maybe. Personally I can’t think of a movie in which the words “Shelley Long” and “good” would co-exist peacefully as descriptors. Caruso’s abortive movie career I haven’t followed but what I remember of it is pretty painful.
Otto:
I kinda liked The Money Pit.
And *Outrageous Fortune * was pretty good, too. 
Fools! Shelley Long’s career peaked with Night Shift.
The David Caruso-Nic Cage remake (Kiss of Death, I think) was really good.
–Cliffy
Troop Beverly Hills* was brilliant on every level.
(Hey, if you can say it about Showgirls…)
Oh, c’mon, who didn’t like Shelley Long in Caveman?