Hi, Mom!

1970

Action / Comedy / Drama

9
Rotten Tomatoes Critics - Certified Fresh 73% · 11 reviews
Rotten Tomatoes Audience - Spilled 56% · 2.5K ratings
IMDb Rating 6.1/10 10 5761 5.8K

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Plot summary

Vietnam vet Jon Rubin returns to New York and rents a rundown flat in Greenwich Village. It is in this flat that he begins to film, 'Peeping Tom' style, the people in the apartment across the street. His obsession with making films leads him to fall in with a radical 'Black Power' group, which in turn leads him to carry out a bizarre act of urban terrorism.


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January 07, 2019 at 02:29 AM

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Robert De Niro as Jon Rubin
Lara Parker as Jeannie Mitchell
Charles Durning as Superintendent
Gerrit Graham as Gerrit Wood
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Movie Reviews

Reviewed by Boba_Fett1138 6 / 10

Ever wondered what Brian De Palma and Robert De Niro used to do before they got famous?

They made some weird stuff together. Brian De Palma always has been a director with an unique and unusual style, that always had been quite experimental and I love him for that but that doesn't mean that I think that all of his movies are very good.

"Hi, Mom!" is far from a great movie because it feels like such a big mess. The story is being all over the place and it makes lots of sudden jumps and which the story just completely takes another turn and becomes one about something totally different. Like basically all of De Palma's earliest movies, this one feels more like an art-house one.

The movie got shot as if they improvised a lot of stuff just on the spot. Also the actors seemed to have improvised quite a lot while playing, which is something that I do like about this movie. The movie does not feels stylized or planned out but more feels rebellious and simplistic, which adds to the whole satire element of the movie.

As a satire this movie does has some messages in it and it also at times does this in a good way. The movie does really become an effective one in certain parts but this doesn't of course prevent the movie from being a very disjointed one.

Not an horrible movie but still far too messy and odd for me to really like it or consider this a watchable one for just everyone.

6/10

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Reviewed by mark.waltz 7 / 10

It's just part of the play.

Reminding me in many ways of John Cassavetes very personal early film "Shadows", this early Brian DePalma film has to be seen to be believed. In fact, it takes the styles of many previous independent art house directors and modernizes it in a way that could not be copied. Part of the film is so realistic and frightening and even militant that you wonder if they gathered a bunch of strangers off the street and films them without them being aware that this was only part of a movie. Those sequences, part of the infamous "Be Black Baby" subplot, are shot incomplete documentary-style, making me interested in seeing an actual documentary on the making of this film.

It's real theater of the streets when a bunch of white people are utilized in what they think is experimental theater that turns out to be a little bit too realistic where they are made to be black and the black actors all of a sudden are white. Insinuations of robbery, rape and shootings are followed by the arrival of a white cop played by Robert De Niro, and it is all part of the performance art staged to make a point. The screams and shouts and crying all seem to real to be acted out, and it's probably one of the most bizarre sequences in a cult film ever, the one that can never be forgotten.

Repeating his role from the DePalma film 'Greetings", DeNiro what is a voyeur, moving into an apartment building on LaGuardia way where he sets up his camera to film neighbors across the street, becoming infatuated with the insecure Jennifer Salt whom he basically cons into going out on a date. Looking very funny in his curly wig, a somewhat thin Charles Durning is a hoot as the landlord. Daniel auditions for the role of the cop within the experimental play, and it's that sequence that really becomes the focal point especially after the three stars confront a variety of white people on the street to ask them if they know what it's like to be black in America.

The funniest element of that segment is people after they realize what they have just gone through, exhausted and still panicky but exhilarated carried out by single and seemingly enlightened, but the question is whether or not that will remain. It certainly should be explained what the title is referring to because you certainly never meet anybody's mom, but you do get a glimpse into what New York what it was like as far as its counterculture 50 years ago. The film is a little whack as far as retaining a linear story, situation with DeNiro and Salt basically dropped for much of the movie. To think that both De Niro and DePalma have gone on to legendary status after seeing their early films is a testament to the motivations that got them into the industry in the first place, and this is certainly a must for film students.

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