Hi, Mom

R

Released Apr 27, 1970

1h 27m

Comedy

List

73%

Tomatometer

11 Reviews

55%

Audience Score

2,500+ Ratings

After serving in Vietnam, veteran Jon Rubin (Robert De Niro) arrives in New York City and approaches sleazy producer Joe Banner (Allen Garfield) about directing a pornographic film. Rubin becomes obsessed with his beautiful neighbor, Judy Bishop (Jennifer Salt). He also begins shooting footage of the residents of an apartment building on the other side of the street. Soon, he falls in with a group of militant black activists as he struggles to find meaning in his increasingly unsatisfying life.

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Richard Brody

New Yorker

De Palma offers a self-conscious time capsule of downtown sights and moods, especially in his rambunctious, hilarious, yet nonetheless disturbing parodies of public television.

May 30, 2016

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Eric Henderson

Slant Magazine

The most Hitchcockian riff that De Palma ever examined is the capacity for the human psyche to harbor intense, complicated divergence.

Rated: 4/4

Jun 11, 2004

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David Nusair

Reel Film Reviews

Hi, Mom! suffers from an almost painfully meandering and off-the-wall vibe that grows more and more infuriating as time slowly progresses.

Rated: 1/4

May 3, 2016

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Dennis Schwartz

Dennis Schwartz Movie Reviews

Now considered valued mostly as a relic.

Rated: B-

May 31, 2011

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Fernando F. Croce

CinePassion

Brian De Palma's joke, in its manifold aspects, roasts the counterculture's navet regarding cinema as "truth 24 frames per second"

Feb 12, 2010

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Emanuel Levy

EmanuelLevy.Com

Sort of a sequel to De Palma's Greetings: De Niro plays a Vietnam vet who attempts to pursue a "Peeping Tom" art career with a new kind of porn film.

Rated: C+

Dec 5, 2006

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william k

Another early De Palma satire this time around has a more focused narrative with Robert De Niro as its main protagonist, better, if not always good humor and some imaginative sequences.

Rated 3 out of 5 stars

03/31/23

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Eitan D

really bad movie, bad cinematography & and the idea sucks

Rated 1.5 out of 5 stars

04/18/21

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jim b

Pathetic excuse for a movie, if you're looking for a good De Niro movie or good De Palma one you won't get it here, Jennifer Salt is wasted too, this movie attempts to have both comedy (in the first half or less), with De Niro as a peeping tom trying to make porn from his window across from Salt's character, and then it switches into this thing about the Black Panther movement, and the two parts don't work at ALL. This *STINKS*!!!!! One of the five worst movies I've ever seen. Pure garbage.

Rated 0.5 out of 5 stars

03/30/23

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Audience Member

Funny, absurd, and unorthodox.

Rated 3.5 out of 5 stars

02/19/23

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Audience Member

Some good stuff in it, but too all over the place.

Rated 2 out of 5 stars

02/19/23

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Audience Member

De Niro was oke funny , but was this a movie , more a documentary....soon forgotten by me . SOMDVD

Rated 2.5 out of 5 stars

02/21/23

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Synopsis

After serving in Vietnam, veteran Jon Rubin (Robert De Niro) arrives in New York City and approaches sleazy producer Joe Banner (Allen Garfield) about directing a pornographic film. Rubin becomes obsessed with his beautiful neighbor, Judy Bishop (Jennifer Salt). He also begins shooting footage of the residents of an apartment building on the other side of the street. Soon, he falls in with a group of militant black activists as he struggles to find meaning in his increasingly unsatisfying life.

Director: Brian De Palma
Rating: R
Genre: Comedy
Original Language: English
Release Date (Theaters): Apr 27, 1970, Limited
Release Date (DVD): Dec 7, 2004
Runtime: 1h 27m