Who Am This Time? I Movie Review

I discovered this treasure on a library shelf where you can check out “educational” tapes like this one for a whole week for free! Even Christopher Walken aficionados who follow his every professional move may not know about Who Am I This Time? Susan Sarandon is Helene Shaw, who is cast in a local production of A Streetcar Named Desire and is immediately attracted to Harry Shaw (Walken), the actor playing Stanley Kowalski. When they play scenes together, she can feel that he is receptive to her interest in him, but without a script, the crushingly shy Harry says nothing, Helene is frustrated, and they get nowhere. Eventually, she is able to find the key that will solve the riddle; he is responsive, and the whole town is ecstatic that Harry has found happiness at last. The splendid direction by Jonathan Demme does full justice to the original source material by Kurt Vonnegut Jr; in one short hour, this gentle tale will creep up on you. It also makes you wonder why Walken, who can play sweeties as deftly as he does psychos, has been cast in so few good guy roles over his long career.

1982 60m/C Susan Sarandon, Christopher Walken, Robert Ridgely, Mike Bacarella, Aaron Freeman, Caitlin Hart; D: Jonathan Demme; M: John Cale. VHS, LV