cult film freak: ALLY SHEEDY & MICHAEL ONTKEAN IN MAID TO ORDER

Written by James M. Tate / 10/21/2017 / No comments / ally sheedy , eighties , michael ontkean , romantic comedy , sonny landham

ALLY SHEEDY & MICHAEL ONTKEAN IN MAID TO ORDER

10/21/2017 | No comment

Title: Maid to Order Star: Ally Sheedy Year: 1987

This Cinderella tale from the glossy latter-mid 1980's is so obvious, the central spoiled rich girl actually looses a slipper... just in case you missed it... And riding high while on an unknowing descent from the Brat Pack make-em/break-em explosion two years earlier, Ally Sheedy's stuck in a light comedy that promises her character will get just-desserts for being such a brat (pun intended) when in reality, she's not so bad...

After one rushed nightclub scene followed by a failed attempt for a two-hundred dollar allowance to sustain the nightlife, dad wishes she was never born, igniting a fairy godmother in the form of quirky Beverly D'Angelo, and soon Sheedy's Jessie Montgomery is, like Dan Aykroyd in TRADING PLACES, on the streets. But since it takes no time at all to land a pretty decent job for a ludicrously unexplained reason at a wacky music promoter's mansion (Dick Shawn married to an equally kooky Valerie Perrine), the best sequence offered in MAID TO ORDER... when there's actually a struggle to catapult the film's entire purpose... occurs in the blink of an eye: after which this maid hardly gets ordered at all. But with the always-genuine Michael Ontkean on board, it's an engaging-enough rom-com, if you like that kinda thing: He and Ally have chemistry despite the fact that, along with the primadonna attitude never being fleshed out, her 90-minute life lesson is, like a spoiled-rotten rich kid's life, much too easy.

Ally Sheedy in MAID TO ORDER with a Prince shirt

Ally Sheedy with Michael Ontkean in MAID TO ORDER

Rain Phoenix then Rainbow in MAID TO ORDER

Our discovered beauty is Begonya Plaza who played the late Sonny Landham's "not with a turban" Indian whore in 48 HRS

Raymond Cruz MAID TO ORDER with Ally Sheedy: Tuco from Breaking Bad and Better Call Saul Raymond Cruz Maid to Order Raymond Cruz

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