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They locate a nice electrical outlet in the kitchen, she plugs in for a recharge and out of gratitude the two of them repair all the Louisville Slugger fall-out in the building. You can tell because he has glowing red headlights and a craggy yet handsome profile while she’s all aerodynamic curves and big blue blinkers. It’s obvious to the attentive viewer right from the get-go that what we’re dealing with are a boy and a girl hubcap. Okay, they aren’t so much your classic beefed up Independence Day spacegoing juggernauts as they are rather charming little airborne hubcaps, but let’s not get too hung up on the semantics here. What dear Faye makes of all the ongoing chaos is fairly unclear, except that she persists in addressing the leader of the baseball bullies (Carlos, a Hispanic gang banger type) as “Bobby” and eventually offers to cook him a ham.Īnd so as the sun sets and night falls on the wreckage of their miserable pathetic lives, the sad little story of “civilized” urban warfare would seem to end before it began.Įxcept that Faye left her window open and two flying saucers invaded the building. Mason and Marisa have their own problems and Harry is hiding behind his drapes. After a visit by the unfriendly neighborhood interior redecorating squad, Frank is on the razor edge of calling it quits and retreating to an elderly care facility in the Promised Land of New Jersey.

#Batteries not included movie

Tenants “pregnant-but-my-boyfriend-will-be-back-momentarily” Marisa, “talented-but-misunderstood-artist” Mason and the television addicted ex-boxer Harry Noble who only speaks in advertising slogans (few too many right hooks in the cranium, eh buddy?), are vaguely allied with Frank and Faye in their mutual quest not to be dis-lodged, as it were.Īs the movie begins, we discover that what envelopes of ready cash won’t accomplish, it seems a baseball bat and applications of gang violence will. Her husband Frank (Hume Cronyn) is a frustrated and grieving old man struggling to care for his wander-prone wife while defying the big business mogels and their rent-a-thugs who’re trying to pry him none too gently out of his lifelong home.

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Come on in, meet the residents and watch out for that falling plaster.įaye Riley (Jessica Tandy) is an elderly woman who’s gone so far around the bend that you’d swear she’s come full circle and started a second lap. No, this isn’t the opening sequence of a Bugs Bunny cartoon. Yup, smack dab in the middle of the building site to end all building sites, there’s one small oasis of a hold-out and nothing gets built until everything gets flattened.

Imagine then, in the center of this grubby wasteland, the oasis of a dilapidated yet occupied restaurant/apartment building. Sue’s Review: Picture, if you will, a vast expanse of urban dirt, with herds of bulldozers and backhoes patiently churning up the landscape in expectation of generous applications of concrete and girders. Sue’s Rating: Holy Jumpin’ Breadboxes, Batman! “This is the ’80s, Mason! Nobody likes reality anymore!”