Second Sight (film)

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Second Sight
Theatrical release poster
Directed byJoel Zwick
Written byTom Schulman
Patricia Resnick
Produced byMark Tarlov
Starring
CinematographyDana Christiaansen
Edited byDavid Ray
Music byJohn Morris
Production
company
Distributed byWarner Bros.
Release date
  • November 3, 1989 (1989-11-03)
Running time
83 minutes
CountryUnited States
LanguageEnglish
Box office$5,368,865

Second Sight is a 1989 American

Boston, Massachusetts for a missing person
who has allegedly been kidnapped.

Although scripted by Patricia Resnick (who previously co-wrote 9 to 5) and Oscar-winner Tom Schulman (who won for Dead Poets Society), the film was a critical and commercial failure; it garnered mostly-negative reviews, and earned only $5.3 million at the United States box office.

Production

Second Sight was being produced around the time of the

new age spirituality and reincarnation; a photo of MacLaine was hung in the bedroom wall of Pinchot's character as an homage.[2] In the middle one of his research sessions, Pinchot collapsed, which doctors said was due to exhaustion but the film's psychic technical advisor believed was due to his response to the extra-sensory perception and hypnosis he had been exposed to over a long period of time.[2]

One psychic Pinchot talked would randomly begin

speaking in tongues repeatedly during conversations, which the psychic said was the result of a spiritual sensation he could not explain; Pinchot said the encounter was helpful in establishing his character.[2] During one scene in the movie, Pinchot is in the office of a man who is in another location and has to urinate, and as a result Pinchot's psychic character begins squirming as if he has to use the bathroom. Pinchot said this scene was inspired by a visit he had with a psychic who used to get drunk whenever she was near somebody who was drunk at a party.[4] The character wears slippers throughout the movie because when Pinchot met psychic Peter Hurkos during his research, they went out to lunch and Hurkos wore sandals because he forgot to put on his shoes.[2]

The Aretha Franklin song "Freeway of Love" plays during a chase scene in the middle of the film.[2]

Reception

The film was not successful commercially or critically. It made only $5.3 million at the United States box office, $2.16 million of which were earned during the opening weekend.[5]

Second Sight received mostly negative reviews. Hal Hinson of The Washington Post said it appeared the film "looks as if it was shot on an everything-must-go, discount basis", and that Pinchot's character "is utterly lacking in either charm or wit". Hinson said the dialogue and direction style were terrible and that Larroquette was rehashing his character from the television comedy series, Night Court.[6] The New York Times reviewer Janet Maslin said Joel Zwick's direction "is so outstandingly maladroit (that) it squelches any possible humor". Maslin also said the film featured too many car chases and had such a pacing of such "artificial liveliness from beginning to end" that "there's nothing in the last reel to distinguish it from the first".[7]

Availability

The film was released on

MOD title from the Warner Archive Collection
, marking its first release in said format.

Cast

References

  1. ^ Dolenz, Micky Little, Tawny, Pinchot, Bronson (1989-11-03). "AM Los Angeles November 3, 1989". AM Los Angeles. Los Angeles. KABC-TV.
  2. ^
    Geraldo
    .
  3. Live with Regis and Kathie Lee. New York City. WABC-TV
    .
  4. ^ Hall, Arsenio, Pinchot, Bronson (1989-11-02). "The Arsenio Hall Show November 2, 1989". The Arsenio Hall Show. Los Angeles.
  5. The Internet Movie Database
    . Retrieved 2009-05-15.
  6. ^ Hinson, Hal (1989-11-04). ""Second Sight" (PG)". The Washington Post. Retrieved 2009-05-15.
  7. ^ Maslin, Janet (1989-11-03). "Movie Review - Second Sight (1989) - Review/Film; Private Detectives and Public Peculiarities". The New York Times. Retrieved 2009-05-15.

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