BLAME IT ON RIO

Demi is topless in it. It is before she got the implants and had all the liposuction on her thighs and waist.

indeed, she was quite flat-chested

Demi didn't get implants until over a decade later, for STRIPTEASE.

Yeah, I saw this first run. Nothing remarkable, IMO.

So that was Demi as the kid? The one all hot and bothered over Michel Kane? Good lord, I never knew that and I've always loved this film. It reminds me of being a 12 or 13 year old teenager and it coming on a Saturday night as the "Late Late Show."

Nope, Michelle Johnson was hot for Caine. Demi played Caine's daughter.

I always blamed it on the Bossa Nova.

Why didn't Michelle Johnson happen?

It really was a very sleazy premise for a movie, but it actually made me want to go to Rio, which I did, only a few months later.

Joe Bologna had major VPL in several scenes in this movie.

Michael Caine was only 43 in that movie? Jesus. He always looked over 60 to me.

Creepy movie. Two middle-aged men go on vacation and fuck each other's teenage daughters.

Not recommended, unless you want to convince yourself that straight men are subhuman.

He could've been older, but his character was 43.

They should remake a gay version of this including the 17 year old hottie with braces and the 43 year old looking closer to 55, cmbyn fans would love it!

r14, they could just call it The Kevin Spacey Story

Meredith Baxter killed Michelle Williams in a fit of rage.

I thought it was gross when it came out. There seemed to be a lot of ads for it.

Whoops, Michelle Johnson.

Michelle Johnson got a small gig on The Love Boat.

r17 hot teen girls with daddy issues always wanna seduce out of shape middle aged men like Michael caine.

I remember in the late '80s watching it as a teenager and thought it was okay. But watching it now - wow, it's a film that would NEVER be made.

The scene where Michael Caine and Michelle Johnson have just had sex and he tells her about when she was a baby is stomach-churning.

Insider item: Joe loved working with Demi so much that he brought her into the cast of an HBO special right after. She may have been a bit of a wild child but she was a charmer by all accounts.

As opposed to Michelle Johnson, whom this movie was supposed to launch into stardom. Nope.

Singing in the Rain director Stanley Donen directed this dreck and Larry Gelbart wrote the screenplay

"hot teen girls with daddy issues always wanna seduce out of shape middle aged men like Michael caine."

Reminds me of the movie Carried Away, where Amy Locane plays a teen nymphet who is hot for a middle-aged farmer dude played by Dennis Hopper.

This movie is generally considered to be one of the more vile movies of all time. It condones statutory rape and purposefully filmed outside the country and lied about the dates of production just so they could show the star naked and having sex even though she was underage. As bad as that sounds, it was much worse.

Lets go back in time to before the movie was shot. You had a 60 something Hollywood lecher/director who was scouting high school talent he could convince to have sex with him for $100 by using his former A list credentials to convince her he could make her a star. Sure, they were in the middle of nowhere and not even close to Hollywood, but it was a game he played often. He knew photographers in the city who would pass along photos of the mid teen females who thought they could be big in the modeling world.

Anyway, lets call our actress Lisa. If you have been reading the site the past few weeks, this kind of all ties it together doesn't it. Lisa was 16 when she met the director. He spun his tale and she loved it and they had sex every day for a few weeks. Apparently the director became convinced from his own words to make a movie starring this teen who he was in lust with. He wanted to keep having sex with her and thought she could be a star. Mostly though, he just wanted to have sex with her. He has an idea for a movie which fulfills all his horrible fantasies and the great thing is, that movie already exists. He just needs to switch it up a little. He also needs money.

He goes to his friend who we will call The Big Cheese. One thing you need to know about The Big Cheese is he is crooked. He also loved to make money. Oh, and he also loves teens. One thing led to another and he also raped 16 year old Lisa.

The Big Cheese also saw it as a way he could have sex with someone who was barely legal he had been lusting for on television. She would turn into an A+ list actress and she remains A list to this day. He offered her a role in the movie for about 50 times what she was making doing television but she also had to have sex with him for a whole weekend. She did it and says today it was the worst weekend of her life but it also made her career. She never slept with any other guy for a part.

Now, Mr. Big Cheese was really on board and he saw this as a way he too could have sex with a bunch of teenagers and knew where they could film the movie to take advantage of that. He also knew which A list actor to hire. The actor loved sex with teens and loved filming in out of the way fun places. He also loved a check more than any script. The actor, who we will call DRS also raped Lisa. He did so repeatedly throughout the filming of the movie.

The filming of the movie was just one big orgy with no care or concern about making a hit. The only thing they cared about was staying under budget which was not hard because they were shooting one take of each scene so they could go back to partying. The A lister says she hated going out at night and blames the movie on her drug problem later in life because she just sat in her room bored at night so turned to drugs.

Lisa made more shows and more movies but was usually required to get naked in auditions and in movies and to have sex with whoever was casting her. She burned out and left the business when she got married. A few years went by and then out of the blue she got a call to come do a movie. To be close to top billed. She had been out of the business for almost a decade. Why was she called back? The producer/writer of the movie had a crush on her from back in the day. Despite the fact he is married he wanted to have sex with Lisa and pressured her for weeks and weeks until she agreed.

She got the part. The movie sucked. Lisa had been willing to give it one more try but after that she said no and has never worked again.

Michelle johnson’s acting was horrid in this,I thought she was erika eleniak from the beverly hillbillies remake.

R25 Lisa =Michelle?

Well, R23, in view of all the great films he directed, Stanley is allowed a clinker or two.

It was a movie about Michelle Johnson's breasts, and it was the kind of 1980s script where all the stuff they put in the script to hide that it was just a sleazy movie only highlighted that it was a sleazy movie, which was typical for the 1980s. I had forgotten most of it other than Johnson's boobs waving in Caine's face, a scene where the two middle aged dads remarked on two topless girls only to find out the girls were their daughters, and Joe Bologna's character telling Demi Moore's that she was the only one who had "behaved herself" on the trip. And there was some muffled pillow talk between the girls where the Johnson's character told Moore's she had a crush on Moore's dad (Caine" and Moore said "Me too." It was just basically the Hwood exec ID out on parade - schlubby middle aged guys could get hot teens to love them for themselves and normal boundaries didn't matter if everybody was a nice guy.

Years later I read the review Roger Ebert gave it. He thought it was swill, and he threw in that supposedly Johnson's character was suicidal. Johnson could barely act but why not throw that in to give her character "depth" but of course it made the movie worse. But was something somebody thought made it "better." Absolutely right would never be made today.

Just look at these two lovebirds!

Didn't Valerie Harper distance herself from the film because it was more exploitative than she thought it would be?

boring film.

its painful to watch demi moore hunched over and miserable as she hides her body shots in the scenes where shes wearing a bikini. she looks self conscious about having smaller boobs.

I remember secretly staying up to watch this on late night cable with my brother. One of the first soft-core (esque) films I remember watching. Years later, when I became a film buff, I learned it was directed by the once-great Stanley Donen.

[quote] the once-great Stanley Donen.

aka a 60 something Hollywood lecher/director

It's subjective of course but personally I think Demi was far the sexier. It's a pity what she had to do for the role.

r34 how do you know all this?

It was a shit film with a reason for older men to take two young, famewhore actresses to Rio and fuck them. Michelle Johnson didn't have much work after that, maybe she didn't have the stomach for whoring but Demi Moore certainly did. Her previous experience in the world's oldest profession stood her in good stead.

This movie used to be on heavy rotation on basic cable which seemed weird to me at the time because it's so sleazy/porny. Michael Caine is very yucky in this. I remember feeling so sorry for the two young actresses.

R35 - it's a CDAN blind (see R25). In other words, utter bullshit.

This was during the period where Michael Caine was in like every other movie. I remember Johnny Carson or someone making jokes like that. It is a weird time for him goes from really great acclaimed stuff like Educating Rita to this. He infamously didn't accept his Oscar for Hannah and Her Sisters in person because he was making a Jaws sequel.

I remember my friend in high school dragging me to this awful movie because Demi was on General Hospital at the time.

Hi Demi, at R22!

“You stand there with your 22 year old skin and your tits like ROCKS and laugh at me...”

How did Stanley Donen and Larry Gelbart justify this shlock after creating such classics?

It's mind boggling, R43. It's like they just decided "You know what? Fuck our legacy, let's make an incredibly sleazy sex comedy about jailbait starring an actual underage girl!"

Yeah, they must also been cash strapped to lower themselves in this way, R44.

Gene Kelly must have directed more of Singing In The Rain than we thought.

Donen had an agent son at that time at William Morris (a nice guy actually but definitely an agent who even dated Cher). I bet he put all this together. "Chasing the youth".

I loved it!

The 80s were to 70s stars the way the 60s were to 50s stars.

Actors that were huge in the 70s were desperate to seem young and hip and started making shit like this to appear with it.

Much like Jackie Gleason doing Ski-Doo, Michael Caine and Joseph Bologna made this.

I remember Caine saying around this period (maybe after Jaws the Revenge) that one of his big considerations when deciding whether to do a movie was if he'd get a nice vacation out of it.

The movie was just SO sleazy and trying to pass it off as a sitcom with nice people, some innocent sexiness and a few Special Episode moments (like the suicidal issues of Johnson's character). See the screen shots up there? Two dads running into their topless daughters on the beach. The only reason it's awkward is because the dads are fuddy duddies! The daughters are fine! Silly dads.

The movie is full of garbage like this. Wasn't there a movie called "My Father the Hero" about a decade later starring a very young Katherine Heigl and Gerard Depardieu as her dad? I remember because Heigl's main costume was a thong bathing suit that her character, age 14, wore around her dad all the time.

For the record, R12 and others, they don't fuck each other's daughters. Just Caine and Johnson do the fucking. Demi and Bologna don't have an affair.

“As a general rule, I think it's wrong for a married man of forty-seven years to have an affair with his best friend's seventeen year-old daughter. Don't you? And especially if the girl has emotional problems. I can imagine a movie being made about the situation, and indeed the right movie might even be sensitive and poignant.

“But to make a cynical sitcom out of it is questionable.”

How much more "sensitive and poignant" can you be?

Aren't photos of 17 year old tits considered kiddie porn? How do they get away with showing this on TV in 2018?

This movie was on yesterday on one of those channels that show old sitcoms and movies, and they didnt show the topless scene or the sex scene it cut off when michelle went down on Michael Caine. It was ridiculous how at the end they were “even “ because Michelle’s dad was having an affair with Michael Caine’s character’s wife the whole time (valerie harper) wtf!!

Nasty movie.

GORP was also a sleazy movie that got laughs out of drugging and raping.

Michelle's boobs are real! That is about the only positive thing you can say about this film.

I feel like if this had been a French movie, it wouldn't have been seen as "sleazy" (even though it is).

[Quote] The scene where Michael Caine and Michelle Johnson have just had sex and he tells her about when she was a baby is stomach-churning.

I had seen this movie before and didn't think it was so bad until i was listening to a podcast that put in the sound bite from this scene. I must have blocked it out because i wanted to puke by the end.

Michelle Johnson does the worst acting job of any actor in any movie ever

R60 Worse than The Room?

R60, I think Michelle Johnston appeared in an early episode of "Melrose Place" back in the early 90s.

She kept her top on, had short hair, and was not half bad.

Those Aaron Spelling shows, "Melrose Place" and "90210" have a pattern of starting out kind of soapy (as in soap operatic) and then gradually becoming ever sleazier.

Blame It On Rio was played non-stop on HBO back in the 80s.

As I result, I have watched snippets of it here and there, but never the entire film from start to finish.

With that said, watching even a little of it makes me feel like I need a shower.

But it is a historical artifact for showing Demi Moore's original breasts.

Right before this movie came out, Joseph Bologna appeared as another middle aged hetero hornbag in "The Woman In Red" a remake of a French film, "Pardon Mon Affaire."

His horny shtick was really getting tiresome.

R58, apparently "Rio" is a remake of a French film "Un moment d'egarement." Have not seen the French film.

And Valerie "Rhoda" Harper sucks in this film too.

The Woman in Red was a horrible movie, too. As I recall, it was pretty popular but it was just incredibly stupid.

R67, agreed. Gene Wilder could not save it.

A lot of US remakes of French movies are utter trash.

The photo in R30 of Michael Caine's untame-able hair makes me sad.

Also Michelle Johnson has those heavy 1980s eyebrows that look really stupid today.

Don't people make fun of Nicolas Cage nowadays for making a lot of schlocky movies, as did M. Caine in the 80s and 90s?

Speaking of untameable hair, was around this time that one of the men's mags printed a beaver shot of Demi Moore and she had the biggest bush you would ever hope to see.

Lol, R71. It was the style back then.

Remember N. Kinski's abundant pubes in "The Cat People"?

R58 It IS a remake of a French movie. There was also a recent remake of it a few years ago starring Vincent Cassel and Francois Cluzet. All of the early 80s remakes of French movies (Blame It On Rio, Woman In Red, Man with One Red Shoe) are awful.

R73, please don't forget "Breathless" with Richard Gere when you talk about unwatchable US remakes of classic French films.

The original

The remake from a few years ago

English subtitled trailer of the recent remake

[Quote] Remember N. Kinski's abundant pubes in "The Cat People"?

Were they that bad?

[Quote] There was also a recent remake of it a few years ago starring Vincent Cassel and Francois Cluzet.

I can't remember the last movie i saw that didn't have Vincent Cassel playing a sleazebag.

R78, lolol. Yeah, I saw V. Cassel in a movie called "Sur mes levres" where he played an uber-sleazebag. Don't forget his dad was Jean Pierre Cassel who was very famous.

Fr. Cluzet has been around for over 30 years, since he himself was a teen!

[quote]The Woman in Red was a horrible movie, too. As I recall, it was pretty popular but it was just incredibly stupid.

That's.... ACADEMY AWARD WINNING The Woman in Red was a horrible movie, too. As I recall, it was pretty popular but it was just incredibly stupid.... to you, Bitch.

[quote] please don't forget "Breathless" with Richard Gere when you talk about unwatchable US remakes of classic French films.

A young full frontal Richard Gere is never unwatchable.

R80 The movie is horrible but the soundtrack by Stevie and Dionne is good.

R81, full frontal? Isn't it just a tiny side view as in American Gigolo? He's a tease, that Richard Gere!

I watched it a couple if times...I liked the guys.

Mr. Gere, prior to the gerbil urban legend....

R50 Ew I looked up My Father The Hero. Pervy as fuck! That reminded me of To Gillian on Her 37th Birthday. Peter Gallagher and his buddy are ogling 2 young girls walking on the beach in thongs only to discover it's his daughter, Clare Danes and her friend. I believe Clare was 16 at the time. Gratuitous teenage ass shots aren't creepy at all. This was 1996.

[quote] They should remake a gay version of this including the 17 year old hottie with braces

I yam available! I yam Brazilian after all!

[quote] and the 43 year old looking closer to 55,

But he insists all his friends tell him he looks 25.

R83

R83

Pauline Kael on this film: "It's as if a Doris Day-Rock Hudson comedy of the early 60s had gone topless."

R86 My Father The Hero is a remake of a French movie too (Mon pere ce heros) and that scene is from the original movie. The original is much better than the American remake.

The best part of movie is the clip from Flying Down To Rio (1933)

R90, the female lead in Breathless was Valerie Kaprisky. She was in a film called "The Year of the Jellyfish" which fortunately boasts no US remake.

I think KH said she was only 14 when she filmed this scene for My Father The Hero.

R93, I must add that "Flying Down to Rio" is a pre-code RKO film that has the distinction of being the very first Fred/Ginger movie.

Fred and Ginger are not the stars; that would be former silent screen actress Dolores Del Rio.

[Quote] That reminded me of To Gillian on Her 37th Birthday. Peter Gallagher and his buddy are ogling 2 young girls walking on the beach in thongs only to discover it's his daughter, Clare Danes and her friend. I believe Clare was 16 at the time. Gratuitous teenage ass shots aren't creepy at all. This was 1996.

The one who plays Claire's friend tries to hit on his buddy too.

We must dispense with the tired cliche of a dad ogling young women on the beach only to find out that one of them is his daughter.

Off topic, but wasn't Harvey Keitel the king of full frontal film nudity in the 1990s?

R99 Yep, Piano and Bad Lieutenant

Hollywood had a lot of trouble figuring out that French sex comedy remakes do not translate well in the USA.

R98 I'll second that.

R100 And Ulysses' Gaze

I think I remember reading somewhere (in the early 90s) that if you want to go to the movies, it's pretty difficult to avoid Harvey Keitel's dick.

R101, I mean, hell, how could they translate? The French are so much more relaxed that us about all aspects of sex: adultery, teen sex, and heck, nudity itself!

Lol R104 Harvey finds himself very attractive and loves to flaunt it.

R71, that was dark "concealer" applied to the photo in the dark room (below).

"hot teen girls with daddy issues always wanna seduce out of shape middle aged men like Michael caine."

LOL. This is most straight man's fantasy. But not teens with "daddy issues," teens who find their flabby old ass sexy. In real life that can happen - for a price $.

GROSSSSSSSSSS.

[quote]r19 Michelle Johnson got a small gig on The Love Boat.

She also plays one of the institute's staff in DEATH BECOMES HER.

INTERVIEW:

R107, I do give ol' Demi credit for being the first nude preggo to pose on a magazine cover!

Now, every little starlet and pop tart does it and it's quite tiresome!

More Demi Moore.

Michelle Johnson is also in FAR AND AWAY with Nic and Tammy....

R112 And her other famous Vanity Fair cover

Wow, that photo in OP's post of the two girls with their hands on the chests of their "movie" dads:

1. Demi Moore may have been flat chested, but she was so much heavier in the face than she was to become in the early 90s when she started working out!

2. No teenager would ever pose like that with their dads....Just no.... Everything about that Rio movie is pervy and creepy.

Michelle Johnson seems to have pretty much disappeared after 2004.

[italic]Michelle, we hardly knew ye....

She did revamp herself as a pop singer at one point. I don't know if her music was actually heard by anyone.

MJ was married to a professional baseball player for a couple of years, Matt Williams of the Arizona Diamondbacks. She was occasionally shown on game broadcasts, sitting with the other team wives.

She sold her West Hollywood home off the Sunset Strip for 4 mil., so I guess she's covered.

[quote]The contemporary home has three bedrooms and 3 1/2 bathrooms. Square footage was not available. The home has panoramic views and a gated courtyard entry. There are water elements throughout and the master bedroom is in a separate wing. The home has a pool, spa, media rooms, gourmet kitchen and walls of French doors.

R120, unless she had a mortgage she had to pay back, or had to split the proceeds with her ex-husband or a hundred other reasons why she didn't actually clear $4 million from the sale.

This is true...I was hoping for the best for our little 80s starlet : (

How does Demi walk around without tripping over her pelt?

R117, R122, Michelle has a kind of Ann-Margret vibe...

My two youngest sisters are cute, if you were wondering...

Odd that womanizing right-wing creep Willis always fathers daughters...

R126, I used to think the same thing about Howard Stern...well not womanizing or right wing, but used to be really gross and obnoxious on his radio show.

And womanizer Mr. Warren Beatty has a bunch of daughters!

Karma is a bitch, as they say.

These days Stevie Wonder would've been made to give back the Oscar. It was an old song he found of his and put on the soundtrack, hardly Written for the Film. Another one for the Bad Oscar thread.

Not so many anymore, R128.

2017 interview with Michelle where they steer almost completely clear of BIOR and talk about her two minute scene in Death Becomes Her instead. Funny story about smoking with Meryl, though.

It's nice to see from the top she's wearing in that 2017 interview that Michelle still knows where her 'talent(s)' lie.

I could see Catherine Breillat wanting to do her own remake. It's sleazy enough.

R122 She looks alot like Winona.

R130, I stand corrected!

Let's just say he still has two young daughters.

How many venereal diseases do you reckon a guy like that had over the years? Sorry, not venereal disease, STD or STI.

R131, in the photo on the left, Michelle J. looks awesome, but she definitely has more fat on her body than the girls of today would....

R131, will someone explain why M is considered good at comedy?

She is a super ham!

Those aren't black bikini bottoms on Demi, that's her bush.

R138, that is a super vulgar pose on Demi in the bush shot.

Playboy centerfolds are never spread eagle as it were.

Demi was in HUSTER, or some such low-rent mag.

I believe it was OUI, Demi said that since it was French, it had to be classy...

It's on tonight at midnight on the THIS network. Probably edited, but these days who knows?

Another chance not to watch it...