When Lou Grant met Gloria Bunker Stivic, it was not a pretty picture and the reason why is that in this TV movie based upon a real incident that led to a novel, their characters are written to she is a type of people that couldn't realistically survive together in a situation like that for one night let alone 49. Sally Struthers' declaration of "You're not going to believe" had me declaring "I'm not going to care" because these two opinionated people get along as easy as a wolf and a rabbit would. He's an extremist Christian call appears to be drunk every time he speaks and she's presented to be a brain dead nitwit who never shuts up but barely says anything of intelligence.
The audience has several options in this 75 minutes, whether to fast forward or turn it off, but they had to learn to rely on each other, and if the viewer can get irritated by them within 20 minutes, imagine how the real pair felt when way they went through this. I love both of these actors in their other TV series and other shows and movies I've seen them in (and that includes live theater), but I felt like I was being preached at to accept that anybody paired together in a situation like this would be able to make it through. Their spouses get to meet as a search party is sent out, and that's one interesting element to see who puts up with the other two. The way Asner's obsession with his version of God is developed seems to have an agenda attached to it, and after a while, I just did not want to hear their voices anymore. Perhaps this was better as a book because you didn't have to listen to them, but as a movie, it is as exciting as eating snow.
The audience has several options in this 75 minutes, whether to fast forward or turn it off, but they had to learn to rely on each other, and if the viewer can get irritated by them within 20 minutes, imagine how the real pair felt when way they went through this. I love both of these actors in their other TV series and other shows and movies I've seen them in (and that includes live theater), but I felt like I was being preached at to accept that anybody paired together in a situation like this would be able to make it through. Their spouses get to meet as a search party is sent out, and that's one interesting element to see who puts up with the other two. The way Asner's obsession with his version of God is developed seems to have an agenda attached to it, and after a while, I just did not want to hear their voices anymore. Perhaps this was better as a book because you didn't have to listen to them, but as a movie, it is as exciting as eating snow.