Friday Night - Dinner and a Movie

Friday night dinner and movie is something of an institution for many couples.  Or at least it used to be. Sheila and I did it regularly for years.  But, times change.  For one thing, Hollywood hasn't produced much that I want to see for years and the good things they do produce now are often released in limited runs in big cities with "art house" venues.  Here in the heartland we get the big budget bovine excrement aimed at room temp IQ's while the big cities get the smaller, better, more intelligent movies.

Last Friday night, Sheila was tired.  A lot of her spare time is being spent at TU working on her consulting job there.  And, I was still stove up from last weekends adventure at the gun range.  So, we stayed in. Sheila stopped by the Reasors at 15th and Lewis and picked up catfish and fixins from their deli.  BTW, their catfish is the best and the cheapest in town.  When she got home, we settled in for an evening in front of the tube.

Lately, I have been browsing through the movie collection on Hulu Plus.  It is actually a pretty good selection of movies that you probably haven't seen anywhere else.  Foreign flicks, art movies, small distribution projects, etc.  It even includes the Janus collection of art films.  While we munched our catfish, I stumbled across this little gem:

Imagine this scene.  Your husband calls and says he has to work late.  You stop by his favorite restaurant to get him a piece of his favorite pie to eat when he gets home and you see him eating a piece of the pie there with a sexy younger woman.  A nasty scene follows.  The younger woman is devastated.  You follow the young woman.  She stops at a bodega and buys a fifth of scotch and a length of clothesline.  You then follow her home and keep her from drinking the scotch and hanging herself.  I know it doesn't sound funny but it is. It is not laugh out loud funny but instead very witty and thought provoking.  So far as I know, this little movie never made it into distribution here in the heartland.  Maybe they though we wouldn't understand the Shakespeare.  And yes, there is Shakespeare all through it.

So, if you were ever curious about what an aging lawyer and his b-school grad wife do on a Friday night in Tulsa, Oklahoma now you know.  We eat carry out catfish and watch movies online.