A Vietnam vet moves into an apartment and peers through other people's windows across the street, meets one of the women, and discovers Black theater.A Vietnam vet moves into an apartment and peers through other people's windows across the street, meets one of the women, and discovers Black theater.A Vietnam vet moves into an apartment and peers through other people's windows across the street, meets one of the women, and discovers Black theater.
- Superintendent
- (as Charles Durnham)
- N.I.T. Journal Revolutionary
- (as Hector Valentin Lino Jr.)
Storyline
Did you know
- TriviaThe opening scene in which the landlord (Charles Durning) is showing Jon Rubin (Robert De Niro) around his crummy new apartment is a parody of a then-contemporary television public-service announcement for the New York Urban Coalition, in which a similarly-slimy landlord shows off a dilapidated apartment to a black man. The movie scene follows the commercial closely, and both De Niro and the unnamed black renter accept the apartment with the same words: "I'll take it," but the commercial is in black-and-white. (The public-service campaign, titled "Give A Damn", was also responsible for the same-named 1969 hit single by the pop group Spanky & Our Gang.)
- GoofsWhen Jon Rubin is finally about to seduce Judy Bishop in her apartment, a microphone is visible, 'peeping' into the room several times from behind the sofa where she is lying down.
- Quotes
[last lines]
John Winnicove: I don't mean to push you...
Jon Rubin: And I'm...
John Winnicove: ...but we have to get off the air now.
Jon Rubin: But...
John Winnicove: Do you have anything...
Jon Rubin: Are you...
John Winnicove: ...that you would just like to say in summary?
Jon Rubin: Well, uh, I would like to say something, uh if you don't mind.
John Winnicove: No, of course not.
Jon Rubin: Uh, I'd like to say hello to my mother, if you don't mind.
John Winnicove: Uh, of course.
Jon Rubin: Hi, Mom!
- ConnectionsFeatured in Scene by Scene: Brian De Palma (1998)
- SoundtracksHi, Mom!
Music by Eric Kaz
Lyrics by John Andreolli
Sung by Jeffrey Lesser (as Jeff Lesser)
Recorded at A&R Studios under the supervision of Eric Kaz
Engineer: Dave Sanders
I'd never seen this movie so I sought it out and watched it on YouTube. Wow, what an annoying schizophrenic mess. No wonder nobody's ever heard of it. It starts out great and with great promise -- the whole Charles During/sleazy landlord bit was truly satirical and funny, as was the initial Peeping Tom idea/DeNiro/Jennifer Salt sequence (she never stops eating during their date) -- but man, then it takes a complete 180 and nose-dives into a lengthy, unfunny, and very annoying cinema verite style whose point I'm still not quite sure about. The entire second half of the film is one long "Huh?", as is the ending. "Hi, Mom!" is a very dated film and an odd duck for sure, though not totally without merit, but all-in-all it's a misguided attempt that deserved to be forgotten.
- MarkSweepstakes
- Jan 4, 2019
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Details
- Runtime1 hour 27 minutes
- Color
- Sound mix
- Aspect ratio
- 1.85 : 1