It's no "Little Fugitive"
"Lovers and Lollipops" has some nice little moments and some terrific photography but, overall, this film pales in comparison to that other GREAT Morris Engel/Ruth Orkin collaboration, "Little Fugitive." "L&L" is the story of Ann, a widow, and her seven year old daughter, Peggy, living alone in New York City.Enter (or re-enter) Larry, "an old friend" of Ann.This film is their courtship leading up to marriage and the strains of this relationship on little Peggy.Engel and Orkin's approach to movie-making seems to be to take such a simple storyline as this and try to get some poignant moments in the simplicty.The method worked very well in "Little Fugitive," but here the "moments" are few.Perhaps because in "L&L" we're watching, for the most part, adults we need something more complex to make them interesting. "Little Fugitive," however, was almost entirely about a boy wandering through Coney Island: as simple a scenario as can be, and the results are brilliant.One of the great moments in "L&L": little Peggy eating a handful of lollipops in the sand at the beach.If you're a student of film, or a fan of photographer Ruth Orkin's work, this will appeal to you for study's sake.But if you're just a movie fan looking for entertainment, pass this one by.Rating: 5/10.score 5/10
Sardony 20 June 1999
Reprint: https://www.imdb.com/review/rw0058532/34779
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