For Petes Sake (film)
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Director Peter Yates Music director Artie Butler Duration Language English | 6.6/10 IMDb Genre Comedy Producer Stanley Shapiro Country United States | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Release date June 26, 1974 (1974-06-26) (U.S.) Writer Stanley Shapiro, Maurice Richlin Cast Barbra Streisand (Henrietta 'Henry' Robbins), Michael Sarrazin (Pete Robbins), Estelle Parsons (Helen Robbins), William Redfield (Fred Robbins)Similar movies Barbra Streisand appears in For Petes Sake and Whats Up - Doc? | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Barbra streisand for pete s sake don t let him down
A young married couple, Henrietta (Barbra Streisand) and Pete Robbins (Michael Sarrazin), are far from wealthy on Petes cabdriver salary in Brooklyn, N.Y. When Pete needs $3,000 to follow through on a stock market tip, Henrietta decides to secretly go to a loan shark for the money, since the bank wont help them. As it turns out, the tip is a dud, and Henrietta is left in serious debt to some dangerous people. Now, she needs to scramble to pay back what she owes before she gets whacked.
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- Barbra streisand for pete s sake don t let him down
- Plot synopsis
- Principal cast
- Similar Movies
- Critical reception
- References
(For the "For Petes Sake" song see The Monkees music band and Peter Tork.)
For Petes Sake is a 1974 American screwball comedy film directed by Peter Yates. The screenplay by Stanley Shapiro and Maurice Richlin chronicles the misadventures of a Brooklyn housewife. In 1977 it was remade in India as the Hindi film Aap Ki Khatir.
Henry (Streisand) is a woman who would do anything for her husband Pete including borrow money so he has a chance of making his dreams come true. But now there's the loan sharks to deal with...
Plot synopsis
Henrietta and Pete Robbins are a young couple struggling to get by on the income he earns as a cab driver. His pompous sister-in-law Helen delights in reminding them that an early marriage robbed him of a college education and how much better off she and her husband Fred are. When Henrietta gets an inside tip on pork belly futures, she borrows $3,000 from a Mafia loan shark to purchase the commodity. Unfortunately, its value doesnt increase as rapidly as she anticipated. When shes unable to pay her debt, her contract is sold to Mrs. Cherry, a grandmotherly-type who operates a prostitution ring. When Henriettas initial attempts at entertaining clients prove to be less than successful, her contract is sold yet again ... and again, as Henrietta fails to fulfill the requirements of each new individual to whom she becomes indebted — each time for more money — and tries to keep her new enterprises (bomber, then cattle rustler) secret from her unsuspecting husband.
Principal cast
Similar Movies
Barbra Streisand appears in For Petes Sake and Whats Up - Doc?. Peter Yates directed For Petes Sake and The Hot Rock. Barbra Streisand appears in For Petes Sake and The Owl and the Pussycat. Joseph Maher appears in For Petes Sake and Funny Farm. Harry and Walter Go to New York (1976).
Critical reception
In his review in The New York Times, Vincent Canby called the film "an often boisterously funny old-time farce" and added, "The movie may not hold together as any kind of larger comic statement, but the laughs are self-sustaining throughout . . . Miss Streisands comedy range is narrow, like a cartoon characters, but For Petes Sake operates almost entirely within that range. Shes at her best in this kind of farce."
Time Out London says, "Yates sure is an erratic talent . . . Here hes adrift in a sea of poor performances and bad comic timing."
References
For Petes Sake (film) WikipediaFor Petes Sake (film) IMDb For Petes Sake (film) themoviedb.org