Moment by Moment

And then: the whole thing.

4:08 John's wrists are pretty loose in the 10 minute video.

Travolta was considered so sexy at the time, but now he looks so skinny.

That looks unbelievably horrible

I'm amazed this thread has not had more posts, since this movie used to be Datalounge obsession.

It must have been incredibly awkward to make, since it was directed and written by Tomlin's lover Jane Wagner.

This was Travolta's first flop, and it was so big that when he made "Urban Cowboy" just a few years later it was considered a major comeback.

An interview with Travolta and Tomlin, from the making of the film.

Tomlin had gained credibility as a dramatic actress with 'Nashville' and 'The Late Show'. 'Moment by Moment' largely derailed her film career until '9 to 5' and she stuck mainly to comedy until she was again started handing dramatic roles. Travolta at least had the big successes of 'Saturday Night Fever' and 'Grease'. And it was Travolta who specifically requested to work with Tomlin, yet she paid a bigger price for this disaster.

Travolta never looked hot imo

Tomlin looks a lot like Travolta's sister, Ellen, who was working quite a bit at the time; add to that the pairs matching shag hairdos and the whole thing is just icky.

It's available in Germany on DVD. The print is very good but you need a region free player if you are in the U.S. to watch it.

Hell yes he looked hot. I was 2 years old when Moment by Moment came out but when I first saw Saturday Night Fever as a teen I'd rewind and jerk off a thousand times to JT's hot ASS. Not just the underwear scenes, there are a thousand moments of Travolta tight pants high ass disco heaven. I think if you're a top you like him more. I am and I do. Those curvy lips and his perfect Gino ASS. That he was so dumb was even better. I don't like hairy men but I knew that John would shave his hole for what I got!! Then I saw Saturday Night Fever 2 or whatever it was called and HE WAS SMOOTH EVERYWHERE. I inseminated half the basement over that man in 1990, 1991, 1992.... He wouldn't turn me down today, I just know.

The hot tub scene:

I love her adoring look when she's nude, and how she pathetically beckons to him to come down to her.

You just don't see on-screen chemistry like that anymore

r14, thank god.

I saw that piece of dreck when it came out 200 years ago. I still haven't gotten over it.

Oh, Strip!

"Yes, I love you in bed. No one else makes a bed like you, Strip. The way you use a flat sheet on the bottom and get it so tight with those crisp corners; the way you arrange the pillows and fluff them just so; that Lino Nel Vento linen spray you use. I mean, I had no idea that duvet corner-clips even existed until I met you, Strip. Oh god, Strip. I DO love you in bed!

A few years ago I just had to see this again (I’d seen it as a kid in the early days of HBO) and ordered a copy from Amazon Deutschland. It really is an atrocious curiosity. I’d watch it again right now if my DVD player still worked.

It was originally titled Homo By Lesbo

Why the fuck are you wearing my caftan?? Gurrrl, don't test me!

Wasn’t this movie, produced by Hollywood’s great homo Allan Carr, meant to be an inside joke? After his great success teaming Travolta and Olivia Newton-John in Grease, Carr figured he could get away with anything.

Did he say “you’re so tight, thanks for the chicken”??????

Omg. Someone’s making sexy noises and the video’s frozen! Thank you for this!

Two gay people trying their best to make their characters seem like they had sexual feelings for each other and it didn't work. It didn't help that at the time they looked alike.

It is possible for two gay actors to successfully play straight lovers. They are after all actors. But Travolta and Tomlin couldn’t pull it off.

Neither Tomlin or Travolta are very good actors and that terrible part was painfully out of Tomlin's reach. She looks so uncomfortable. Like Jodie Foster, Lily Tomlin made sure her future film roles never placed her in a romantic lead in a movie that required lots of physical or demonstrable making out. They came out on screen before they did in real life. I am a big Jodie Foster fan and you can see how after she was laughed at in Sommersby, she never attempted to be part of a romantic partnership again in ANY of her films. She played divorcees and mothers and business women and rape victims and FBI agents and a girl raised by wolves. NO MORE KISSING MEN. Travolta is bisexual and not a bad actor. He has had chemistry with a few female co stars. Kirstie Alley, Jamie Lee Curtis, Nancy Allen and Olivia Newton John. Women who can kick his ass, ha.

Might have worked with other actors. But I've never found Travolta sexy, and Tomlin is too goofy and Middle American to play that role. And they're both queers.

"Listen, Miss Ultra Frost! You're trying to pen me in, and I gotta fly like the birds!"

"Oh, Strip!"

"I gotta be free, dig?"

"Oh, but Strip! Strip!"

If you need a good chuckle.

[quote] Two gay people trying their best to make their characters seem like they had sexual feelings for each other and it didn't work.

That's a terrible thing to say about our marriage! Oh, wait...

I think one critic called it "Eon by Eon".

This is actually a really good and gay defense of this quirky film.

The movie might've worked if Tomlin and Travolta were playing twins exploring some taboo sex.

😁😁😁😁

Tomlin looks a lot like Ellen Travolta. It's really creepy

The whole movie is a minduck product of Jane Wagner and her self confessed A.D.D. I think.

Which is which?

Lily is totally miscast. John is just fine. Might’ve been better maybe with somebody like Sophia Loren or Lauren Bacall?

But the dialogue is so bad. What could they possibly do to save it?

If only Diana Hyland hadn't died, the chemistry would have been sizzzzzzling.

I’ve tried watching this but it’s just so boring I can never make it very far. I love a good bad movie but this is just bad bad.

Lily is so terrible in this. Not that Travolta is much better, but Lily is a disappointment with how wooden she is.

Meant to add that Travolta's character is so creepy with how he follows Lily and won't stop asking her questions. It is like he is the Boy in the Plastic Bubble who is on release or something.

They should have played it for laugh and been in on the joke. It would have been a classic.

Carrie Nye could have saved it.

This is fun camp.

What a shitfest.

Such promise.