VHS / The Other Side Of Midnight (1977) / Marie-France Pisier / Susan Sarandon

VHS / The Other Side Of Midnight (1977) / Marie-France Pisier / Susan Sarandon former rental store copy clear plastic box You've probably seen comedies that won't make you laugh as hard as this deadly serious soap opera, drawn from the overheated oeuvre of literary shlockmeister Sidney Sheldon. Marie-France Pisier plays a poor little French girl who is seduced and abandoned and seduced and abandoned during World War II--until she finally figures out that she can profit from her body. She sleeps her way to stardom on the silver screen, then reinvolves herself with an American cad (John Beck) and gets him to kill his lovably obtuse rich wife (Susan Sarandon). You'll be howling. The Other Side of Midnight is a movie that defines the term "unintentionally funny." --Marshall Fine