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Hi, Mom

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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 The 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 Full Review 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 Full Review Alan Jones Radio Times De Niro reveals the charismatic form that would mark his later career. One of De Palma's freshest, angriest and most unique efforts. Rated: 4/5 Jul 2, 2025 Full Review Sean Burns Crooked Marquee One of the most audacious things I’ve ever seen. Oct 28, 2024 Full Review 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 Full Review Dennis Schwartz Dennis Schwartz Movie Reviews Now considered valued mostly as a relic. Rated: B- May 31, 2011 Full Review Read all reviews

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Audience Member Funny, absurd, and unorthodox. Rated 3.5 out of 5 stars 02/19/23 Full Review Audience Member Some good stuff in it, but too all over the place. Rated 2 out of 5 stars 02/19/23 Full Review 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 Full Review Audience Member (***): [img]http://images.rottentomatoes.com/images/user/icons/icon14.gif[/img] Rated 4 out of 5 stars 01/18/23 Full Review Audience Member Brian De Palma's Hi Mom! Is acted, directed, written, and edited on a grand scale. Part 3 of the back theater is extremely intense and holds up well. Love that ending! Rated 4.5 out of 5 stars 01/23/23 Full Review walter m "Hi, Mom!" starts with a building superintendent(Charles Durning) bending over backwards, literally not figuratively, to rent a lovely slum apartment to Jon Rubin(Robert De Niro) who accepts it in order to film the occupants of the apartment building across the way. Instead of going straight to the Museum of Modern Art with his footage, he goes to the first smut peddler(Allen Garfield) he comes across who seeing the pornographic possibilities decides to bankroll him despite the dubious legality, ethics and morality of the enterprise. While filming, Jon takes special notice of Judy Bishop(Jennifer Salt), always lonely, and decides to seduce her. Like most of Brian De Palma's more recent films, "Hi, Mom!" wears the influence of other films on its sleeve, in this case the French New Wave(as do other films in the current 'New Yawk, New Wave' festival currently showing at the Film Forum, as other people have pointed out). But at least here, he takes the jump cuts and puts them to alternately hilarious and disturbing uses while telling an original story to deftly show how technology separates us, not brings us together, made still relevant today by the advent of the infernal cell phone while giving glimpses of a bygone New York City. For a while, this may feel like little more than elaborately devised skits but it all comes together toward the end in an increasingly provocative narrative. Rated 4 out of 5 stars 03/31/23 Full Review Read all reviews
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Brian De Palma

Director

Robert De Niro

Jon Rubin

Allen Garfield

Joe Banner

Jennifer Salt

Judy Bishop

Charles Durning

Superintendent

Lara Parker

Jeannie Mitchell

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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
Producer
Charles Hirsch
Screenwriter
Brian De Palma
Production Co
West End Films
Rating
R
Genre
Comedy
Original Language
English
Release Date (Theaters)
Apr 27, 1970, Limited
Release Date (DVD)
Dec 7, 2004
Runtime
1h 27m
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