One of Cassavetes' most endearing, darling and funny movies portrays the manic, seemingly improbable romance between two distinctly different people. Seymour Moskowitz (Seymour Cassel) is a half-crazy parking-lot attendant who rarely sleeps. Minnie Moore (Rowlands), a lonely museum curator at LACMA, has other issues. With Moskowitz she begins to slowly throw herself into experience, as he forces her to go out and see for herself, to express herself, because he abhors the dishonesty of inhibition. - 114 Minutes / Universal Pictures

Here's Chuck Wilson's L.A. Weekly review: "As a couple, Minnie Moore (Gena Rowlands) and Seymour Moskowitz (Seymour Cassel) don't make sense. Quiet and refined, Minnie works at the L.A. County Museum, while Seymour is boisterous and rude and works as a parking valet. When Seymour rescues Minnie from a scary blind date (an amazing Val Avery), he latches on to her with a fervor we'd call stalking today, but which comes off more like excess enthusiasm here. It's not a big leap to see this film as writer-director John Cassavetes' attempt to recapture his own persistent wooing of Gena Rowlands in the early 1950s. Legend has it that the reserved Rowlands didn't immediately swoon for the unruly charms of Cassavetes, and just as Seymour does with Minnie, Cassavetes had to keep throwing himself in Rowlands' path. It isn't our business to know how he finally won her over, but there are hints in this film, as when Seymour and Minnie dance and he surprises her with his grace, or when she looks hard at him in the middle of a fight, as if the inevitability and depth of her feeling for him are suddenly becoming clear to her. Aficionados of the Cassavetes-Rowlands partnership won't want to miss the dinner scene where Minnie and Seymour introduce their mothers to each other, roles played by Gena's and John's magnificent real-life moms."

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• Husbands
• A Woman Under the Influence
• Mikey & Nicky
• Minnie & Moskowitz
• The Killing of a Chinese Bookie
• Gloria
• Opening Night
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