In Praise of Older Women

Andras Varda (Tom Berenger) is orphaned in WWII Hungary, where he becomes a kid hustler for the American GIs. As he grows up, he is disillusioned with the fickle girls of his own age.

Average cheating movie, starts good and fast but Tom Berenger is not good type for this role, his wooden acting made movie less interesting, Joe D'Alessandro type of guy would have made this movie a lot better. Best thing about movie that all actresses delivered good performances.

George Kaczender's In Praise of Older Women, from Stephen Vizinczey's novel of the same name, is an extremely controversial film. The Canadian version of the MPAA objected to the nudity and explicit simulated sex in the film and would not release it unless Kaczender removed 2 minutes of footage.

I caught this playing constantly on cable TV late at night back in the early 80s. Not much of a plot.

Well, this film was made to fill a niche that no longer exists. Like the old B-movies sort of went away when that area fell to television, this film was soft-core before cable channels filled that niche.

This film though artsy ,was , well, you guessed it redundant. Growing up as a middle man for a brothel and being introduced to sex from a countess at the ripe old age of 11 or so, Andres becomes a stud, not gigolo , for sex starved housewives, between 30 and 40 or so.

It's 1936 and the Spanish Civil War is about to start. Andres, who is a student at a religious school in Spain, wants to go to join his mother, who has left for Northern Spain.

This 1997 Spanish production is the second screen adaptation of Stephen Vzinczey's novel "In Praise of Older Women." I didn't see the first one, but it would be difficult to top this one.

To be very honest, I can't really disagree with some of the negative reviews out there concerning this film. But every once in a while, some movie appeals to you and deep down you know that it's really not that good.