While You Were Sleeping-Not-Jeff Goldblum And Michelle Pfeiffer’s “Into
The Night” (1985) A Film Review
Into The Night, Jeff Goldblum, Michelle Pfeiffer,
Having just finished my 27th mid-life crisis gag I can
relate to Jeff Goldblum’s angst and aggravation and alienation from his wife,
his wife’s so-called clandestine affair with some workmate, from his own work
as a worker bee in some aerospace operation, and from his drumbeat existence.
Although I can’t get my head around what our boy did to resolve his crisis as
detailed in the film under review Into
The Night. Can’t figure to go to the mat with scads of bad guys, a few
shots fired in anger, murder and mayhem no matter how foxy the damsel in
distress to work out that mid-life dilemma.
Angst and alienation driven Jeff who can’t seem to sleep during
his crisis, not a good thing for the fast judgements he will face, decided that
he will take that trip out of town to work on his issues as suggested by a
friend and does it on the fly. He gets to the airport but then gets cold feet
and is ready to head home. But in a split second his fate gets whacked around
by a decision he makes to help Michelle Pfeiffer out of what appears to be a
serious jam of unknown original but of pressing concern since the bad guys who
will help drive the film-and Jeff’s decisions are on the march. Of course,
along the way it does not hurt that the gal Jeff is helping out of whatever jam
she is in is drop-dead beautiful but that will keep for another time since the
forces of evil are coming down on her head.
What is driving Michelle to desperate acts and Jeff to decisions which put him in deeper and deeper into her life is that she had been the “mule” smuggler of a precious jewelry theft where the delivery got botched, get banged around and she was left with the goods running for her life after the guy she was to transfer the goods too was wasted by competitors also interested in the goods. We are off and running to beat the band. It appears that the final destination for the jewels was to be an Iranian agent, female, who had her henchmen running ragged over the damn thing. Like I said I would have thought twice about getting knee-deep into this one just to be able to sleep at night without sedatives no matter how foxy the damsel in distress was. But maybe that is because I resolved my own mid-life crisis, resolved it in a very different way.
