the seduction of Joe Tynan

 

I saw the feature film The Seduction Of Joe Tynan when it came out.  Late '70s, early '80s, Meryl Streep was a new young actress and she started knocking out movies boom-boom-boom.

Manhattan

Kramer Vs. Kramer

The Seduction Of Joe Tynan

The French Lieutenant's Woman

        1978, 79, 80, 81...

I was still in college, in Boston - I took the train across the Charles River to Cambridge, where Tynan was playing.

I went alone, because I didn't know anyone who wanted to see it.  

I remember there were a lot of people in the theater.

Meryl Streep; Alan Alda; the word "seduction" in the title (haha) - these components helped draw in the audience, I think.

        I wanted to see it because it was in a political setting.

        It could have been a lot better - but the film has good aspects to it.  

        Getting a film to be great is like catching "lightning in a bottle" as the saying goes.  It doesn't always happen.

        But I was happy to stream The Seduction Of Joe Tynan on Netflix yesterday, just to experience it again and recall what I thought when I first saw it, and compare that to what I think now.

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