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1978 American romantic film by Joe Brooks

If E'er I See You Again

If Ever I See You Again film poster, 1978.jpg

Theatrical release poster
Directed by Joe Brooks
Written by Joe Brooks
Martin Davidson
Produced by Joe Brooks
Starring Joe Brooks
Shelley Hack
Jimmy Breslin
Jerry Keller
George Plimpton
Cinematography Adam Holender
Edited by Rick Shaine
Music past Joe Brooks
Distributed by Columbia Pictures

Release appointment
  • May 24, 1978 (1978-05-24) (U.S.)

Running time

 105 minutes
Country United States
Language English

If Ever I See Y'all Again is a 1978 American romantic drama film about a composer who rekindles his relationship with a former girlfriend. It stars Joe Brooks, who as well co-wrote, produced, directed, and scored the flick, and Shelley Hack. The flick's theme song, "If Always I Meet Y'all Once again", was a moderate striking for Roberta Flack, reaching #24 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart.

Plot [edit]

Bob Morrison is a successful composer of TV commercial jingles who has get rich from his work, assuasive him to make a good life in New York Urban center for himself and his two immature children. However, Bob is frustrated with having to conform his music to the ideas of executives such equally Lawrence who are frequently eccentric or rude. Bob secretly envies his former friend David, who has lived in relative poverty for years while pursuing a career as a classical pianist. David's sacrifices are now starting to pay off with a concert at Carnegie Hall, and he is also happily married, while Bob has been a widower for some years (the decease of his wife is strongly implied, although not shown or stated straight). Bob never got over his college girlfriend, Jennifer Corly, who slept with him briefly in college and then, saying she wasn't ready for a serious delivery, broke upwards with him and dated another homo.

Bob and his assistant Mario travel to Los Angeles for i day to meet two moving picture producers for whom Bob hopes to score a picture show. While at that place, Bob learns that Jennifer is living in Malibu, calls her and visits her at home shortly before he has to exit. Jennifer has get a painter, is still cute and single, and seems attracted to Bob, even kissing him goodbye at the airport. Bob falls in honey with her all over again.

Dorsum in New York just before Christmas, Bob's frustrations pb him to decide with his partner Steve Warner to close downwards their jingle-writing business organisation, thus putting Mario out of a job. However, before Bob can inform Mario, Mario makes a grateful spoken language thanking Bob for all Bob has done for him, leaving Bob feeling too guilty to speak farther. Bob then learns the producers are seriously considering hiring him, but that they insist he come to Los Angeles to record music for the final audition. Bob reluctantly agrees to go, although he prefers to piece of work from New York.

Upon arriving, Bob calls Jennifer and invites her to his recording session and to dinner, but she abruptly turns him downward. A down-hearted Bob goes to the studio, but thank you up after David arrives unexpectedly to play piano at his session, and and so Jennifer arrives, having changed her mind. Afterwards, Bob confesses to Jennifer that he equanimous the love song recorded at the session many years agone with her in mind. Bob and Jennifer brand dearest and spend time together, only Jennifer breaks up with him once more, telling him that although she loves him, she's "non a forever person" and can't change. As she drives away, Bob learns that he got the film score job and that he will fifty-fifty be able to work from New York City every bit he prefers, pregnant that he will not be returning to California.

Heartbroken, Bob returns to New York and prepares to gloat the holidays with his family and friends. While he is hosting a children'south Christmas party, Jennifer of a sudden appears, having reconsidered the breakup, and Bob and Jennifer happily reunite.

Bandage [edit]

  • Joe Brooks every bit Bob Morrison
  • Shelley Hack equally Jennifer Corly
  • Jimmy Breslin as Mario Marino
  • Jerry Keller every bit Steve Warner
  • George Plimpton equally Laurence Lawrence
  • Kenny Karen as David Miller
  • Caroline Mignini as Laura Miller
  • Shannon Bolin equally Elsa
  • Danielle Brisebois as Amy Morrison
  • Branch Emerson as Jonathan Morrison

Peter Billingsley, so a child actor who became well known a few years afterwards as "Ralphie" in A Christmas Story, made 1 of his first film appearances in the Christmas party scene.

Product [edit]

Brooks made If Always I See You Over again as the follow-upward to his successful 1977 film, You lot Light Upwardly My Life, which Brooks had produced, written, directed and scored. You lot Calorie-free Upward My Life was a box office hit and the title song "You Light Upwards My Life" was an even bigger success, setting a new record for most weeks at #1 on the Hot 100 Nautical chart and winning Brooks an Academy Award for Best Original Song, a Grammy Award for Song of the Year, and other honors.[1] [ii]

Brooks' partner, Robert K. Lifton, later wrote that he and Brooks fix out to make a similar follow-upwards, equally financing was likely to be bachelor for a concept that had already been proven successful. In his self-published memoir, Lifton wrote that they "focus[ed] on making low cost movies with music that could carry the motion-picture show and allow the tape help the movie and the movie help the tape." For If Ever I Come across You Once again, Brooks and Lifton obtained financing from a friend whose son was seeking a movie business experience, and were therefore able to make the movie with little financial adventure to themselves.[3] Daily Variety at the fourth dimension of product reported a budget of first $one.45 1000000 and afterwards $1.8 million.[4] Film historian Paul Talbot afterwards reported the production budget as $iii million.[5]

In add-on to producing, co-writing, directing and scoring the film, Brooks also decided to play the leading role of "Bob Morrison" himself.[3] Although the character mirrored Brooks' ain life as a rich, successful composer of advertising jingles who moved into film work, Brooks had no significant interim feel.[1] [vi] Brooks claimed to have spent $20,000 on giving himself 2 screen tests to make sure he could play the office and received Columbia Pictures' approval based on the tests.[v] In a New York Times interview while the film was in production, Brooks said, "I really idea I was the best guy to play the atomic number 82."[vi] According to one columnist, Brooks cast himself in the part after Al Pacino and George Segal both turned information technology down.[7]

Like Brooks, well-nigh of the other main actors were also inexperienced. Jerry Keller and Kenny Karen were former pop musicians turned jingle creators who had worked with Brooks in the past. Keller's film experience consisted of a bit function in You Light Up My Life every bit an orchestra music manager. Shelley Hack was then a model best known for appearing in a television receiver commercial for Revlon's "Charlie" fragrance, who had a two-line part in Woody Allen's acclaimed film Annie Hall.[8] Jimmy Breslin and George Plimpton were primarily known as journalists and authors, although Plimpton had small parts in several previous films.[three] [9]

Working titles for the film included The Mozart of Madison Avenue and California.[four] It was shot in New York Metropolis and Los Angeles during the holiday season of 1977. The cast provided their own wardrobes.[5] Hack, who in existent life was nearsighted,[8] wore her ain spectacles.[5]

According to Daily Diversity, Columbia spent an boosted $two.five million on promoting the film.[iv] In addition to the soundtrack album, a paperback novelization of the screenplay was released by Runted Books in May 1978 as a promotional tie-in.[10] Every bit a further promotional gimmick, Columbia teamed with Pertec Computer to "reunite lost lovers whenever a toll-free number is called" by having a computer match upwards the details of callers.[4] [11] [12] An editor of Minicomputer News and his secretary posed as former lovers attempting to locate each other to test the service, with somewhat unsuccessful results.[12]

Soundtrack [edit]

If Ever I Run across Y'all Over again:
Original Movement Movie Soundtrack
Soundtrack album by

Joseph Brooks and diverse artists
Released May 1978
Recorded 1978
Studio A&R Recording Studios
New York City
Genre Popular, Motion picture score
Characterization Warner Bros.
Producer Joseph Brooks
Singles from If Always I See You Once again
  1. "California"
    Released: February 1978
  2. "If E'er I See Y'all Again"
    Released: April 1978

In keeping with the idea of "music that could carry the movie," Brooks wrote a number of songs for the motion-picture show: he also revived for the soundtrack the 1966 Julie Monday regional hitting "Come Share the Proficient Times With Me" with the championship adjusted to "Come Share My Love" (Brooks had produced the Julie Monday recording but its songwriting credit had been to Gilbert Kennington a pseudonym for Brooks' brother Gilbert Kaplan: notwithstanding authorship of "Come up Share My Love" was credited to Brooks himself). Prior to the film's release, Brooks arranged for Debby Boone, who in the preceding months had achieved blockbuster success with her debut solo single: her rendition of the theme vocal from Brooks' get-go motion picture product You Calorie-free Up My Life, to record versions of the title theme "If E'er I See You Once more", "California", "Come Share My Love", "Information technology Was Such a Expert Twenty-four hour period", and "When It'south Over". Boone released "California" in February 1978 as the follow-up to "Y'all Lite Up My Life", but "California" simply reached #l on the Hot 100 chart, declining to duplicate Boone's previous success.[13] The versions recorded by Boone were eventually released on her anthology Midstream (1978).

After the relative failure of Boone'south "California", Brooks reached out to Atlantic Records to go Roberta Flack, an established artist with a rails record of number i hits, to record "If E'er I Run across Y'all Again".[iii] According to Flack, she "couldn't stand up" the vocal and agreed to record information technology only after being pressured by the president of Atlantic and negotiating a "huge money deal".[xiv] Flack after recorded versions of the title song equally well as "Come up Share My Love" and "When Information technology'southward Over", all produced by Brooks.

Flack's version of "If E'er I See Yous Again" was released in Apr 1978 in preparation for the May 1978 opening of the movie. Although the song was a moderate striking, reaching #24 on the Hot 100, #1 on the Billboard Like shooting fish in a barrel Listening chart,[15] and #37 on the R&B chart,[xvi] information technology failed to match the success of several previous hitting singles by Flack, much less the popularity of "You Light Up My Life". The motion-picture show songs recorded by Flack, including "If Ever I See You Again", were included on her self-titled 1978 album Roberta Flack.

Brooks also recorded the motion picture's songs for an album on Atlantic titled The Joe Brooks Group. [17]

An original soundtrack double anthology for the picture show was also released on Warner Bros., which contained instrumental music from the film, Boone'south versions of "California" and "Come Share My Beloved", and other songs performed by studio musicians including male vocalist Jamie Carr (who sang the theme song in the film). The album did not incorporate Flack's version of the theme song or whatever other contributions by Flack.[18]

Runway listing [edit]

Side 1:

  1. "If Always I See Y'all Once more" (Vocal) – Jamie Carr (4:16)
  2. "California" (Grouping) – Joe Brooks (3:33)
  3. "Something To Sell" – Joe Brooks (ii:12)
  4. "When Information technology'due south Over" (Instrumental) – Joe Brooks (3:xviii)
  5. "Christmas Song" (Version 2) – Joe Brooks (2:28)

Side 2:

  1. "When It'due south Over" (Vocal) – Joe Brooks (3:18)
  2. "If E'er I See Y'all Again" (Jennifer's House) – Joe Brooks (4:42)
  3. "Wake Up" – Joe Brooks (0:52)
  4. "Walk To Jennifer's Business firm/California" – Joe Brooks (7:10)

Side 3:

  1. "Come Share My Dearest" – Joe Brooks (three:xl)
  2. "EKG Car" – Joe Brooks (0:41)
  3. "California" (Boring Instrumental) – Joe Brooks (iii:12)
  4. "If Always I See You lot Once again" (Instrumental) – Joe Brooks (4:xvi)
  5. "Christmas Song" (Montage) – Joe Brooks (3:55)

Side 4:

  1. "California" (Slow Vocal) – Joe Brooks (three:12)
  2. "When It's Over" (Montage) – Joe Brooks (three:18)
  3. "David's Concert" – Kenny Karen (i:57)
  4. "Boulevard & Backroads" – Joe Brooks (3:05)
  5. "Come Share My Dear" – Debby Boone (3:44)

Reception [edit]

However the moderate success of Flack'south single, and the considerable effort and cost put into promoting the pic, If Ever I See Yous Once more received generally negative reviews (although the Los Angeles Times praised the "nice, natural quality" of the performances "despite Brooks' stilted direction")[4] [19] [xx] [21] [22] and bombed at the box office.[five] Hack later admitted in an interview that information technology was "a bomb".[23] Reportedly, it failed to recoup its product budget or even its promotional costs.[5]

Some of the criticism centered on poor interim past Brooks or other members of the inexperienced cast.[nineteen] [xx] [22] Breslin and the film were nominated in Harry and Michael Medved's 1980 book The Gilded Turkey Awards in the category "Worst Acting Performance by a Novelist".[24] Leonard Maltin, who gave information technology a course of 1 1/2 stars,[25] stated, "Breslin should stick to his typewriter."

At the 1978 Stinkers Bad Film Awards, the pic won Worst Picture.[26] When the Stinkers Election Expansion Project launched in 2003, the movie received the following notes:

  • Worst Film (now a nomination, with Renaldo and Clara being the new winner)
  • Worst Sense of Direction for Brooks (nominated)
  • Worst Song Or Song Performance in a Film or Its Terminate Credits for "If Ever I Run into You Once more" by Joe Brooks (nominated)
  • Worst Screen Couple for Brooks and Hack (nominated)
  • Worst Actress for Hack (dishonourable mention)
  • Worst Vocal Or Song Functioning in a Motion picture or Its End Credits for "California" by Brooks (dishonourable mention)[27]

The picture show'southward reputation did not ameliorate with time. In 2011, an article in New York magazine termed it an "obscure flop".[28]

If Ever I Come across Yous Again was released on VHS in 1986.[5] As of 2015, it had non been released on DVD.

References [edit]

  1. ^ a b Farber, Stephen (May 1978). "King of Corn". New West: 24.
  2. ^ Roberts, David (2006). British Hitting Singles & Albums (19th ed.). London: Guinness World Records Limited. p. 136. ISBN1-904994-10-5.
  3. ^ a b c d Lifton, Robert K. (2012-xi-xvi). An Entrepreneur's Journey: Stories from a Life in Business and Personal Diplomacy. Bloomington, Indiana: AuthorHouse. pp. 197–199. ISBN978-1-4772-7931-i.
  4. ^ a b c d e "AFI Catalog of Feature Films: If Always I Come across You Once more". afi.com. American Film Institute. Archived from the original on 2015-09-xvi. Retrieved 2015-11-18 .
  5. ^ a b c d e f g Talbot, Paul (December 2011). "If Ever I Run into Yous Over again (1978)". Stupor Movie house (41).
  6. ^ a b Lichtenstein, Grace (1977-12-25). "These Days, Movies Light Up His Life". The New York Times. p. 63. Retrieved 2015-11-17 – via NYTimes.com.
  7. ^ Sloan, Robin Adams (1978-05-01). "The Gossip Column: Woody Forbids Mention of Oscars in Pic Ads". Garden City Telegram. Garden City, Kansas. p. 12. Retrieved 2015-11-15 – via Newspapers.com.
  8. ^ a b Scott, Vernon (1978-05-28). "Model Hopes to Hack Information technology equally an Actress". The Salina Periodical. Salina, Kansas. p. 23. Retrieved 2015-11-eighteen – via Newspapers.com.
  9. ^ Buckley, Tom (1978-06-08). "Paramount Picks Upwards Tab For Rights to New Musical". The Sun-Telegram. San Bernardino Canton, California. p. B15. Retrieved 2015-11-15 – via Newspapers.com.
  10. ^ Stewart, Kerry (May 1978). If Always I See Y'all Again (paperback ed.). New York City: Bantam Books. ISBN978-0553121872.
  11. ^ "If Ever I Encounter You lot Over again". BoxOffice. New York City. May 29, 1978.
  12. ^ a b Knoblauch, Mary (1978-06-12). "News for You: Sometimes, It Merely Doesn't Compute". Chicago Tribune. p. B2.
  13. ^ Fred Bronson (2003). Billboard's Hottest Hot 100 Hits. Billboard Books. p. 217. ISBN978-0-8230-7738-0.
  14. ^ Thompson, Carmen Renee (January 2003). "Everything Is Everything". Vibe. New York City: xl. Retrieved 2015-eleven-15 .
  15. ^ Whitburn, Joel (2002). Top Adult Contemporary: 1961-2001. Tape Inquiry. p. 93.
  16. ^ Whitburn, Joel (2004). Top R&B/Hip-Hop Singles: 1942-2004. Record Inquiry. p. 207.
  17. ^ "The Joe Brooks Group". discogs.com. Retrieved 2016-06-11 .
  18. ^ "If Ever I Encounter You Once more (1978)". Soundtrackcollector.com. Archived from the original on 2015-11-18. Retrieved 2015-eleven-18 .
  19. ^ a b R.R. Bowker (May 1989). Multifariousness's Film Reviews: 1978-1980. Vol. xv. New Providence, New Bailiwick of jersey: Bowker. ISBN978-0835227957.
  20. ^ a b Maslin, Janet (1978-05-24). "Picture Review: If Ever I Run into Yous Again (1978): Film: Adman's Romance". The New York Times. New York Metropolis. Retrieved 2015-xi-18 .
  21. ^ Gross, Linda (1978-05-19). "Moving-picture show Review: Giving Romance Another Gamble". Los Angeles Times. Los Angeles, California. p. H19.
  22. ^ a b Martin, Judith (1978-05-26). "The Fathers of Necessity". The Washington Mail service. Washington, D.C. p. xix (Weekend department).
  23. ^ Smilgis, Martha (1979-09-24). "Charlie's Latest Angel". People . Retrieved 2015-xi-18 .
  24. ^ Medved, Harry; Medved, Michael (1980-04-14). The Golden Turkey Awards: The Worst Achievements in Hollywood History. New York City: Perigee Merchandise. ISBN978-0399504631.
  25. ^ Maltin, Leonard (2009). Leonard Maltin'south Picture show Guide (2009 ed.). New York City: Plume. p. 655. ISBN978-0-452-289789.
  26. ^ "The Stinkers 1978 Ballot". Stinkers Bad Picture Awards. Archived from the original on 2 December 1998.
  27. ^ "STINKERS BALLOT EXPANSION PROJECT: 1978". Stinkers Bad Movie Awards. Archived from the original on 10 Baronial 2003. Retrieved 6 September 2019.
  28. ^ Verini, James (2011-02-05). "The Curious Case of Joseph and Nicholas Brooks". New York. New York Urban center. Retrieved 2015-11-xv .

External links [edit]

Awards
Preceded by

New Honor

Stinker Accolade for Worst Film

(preceded Renaldo and Clara)
1978 Stinkers Bad Pic Awards

Succeeded by

Nightwing and The Main Outcome

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Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/If_Ever_I_See_You_Again_(film)

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