Moment by Moment -1978
Director
Jane Wagner

Writer
Jane Wagner

Cast
Lily Tomlin
John Travolta
Andra Akers

Review by Wayne Malin

I had (blessedly) forgotten this train wreck,

Rich and lonely Trish (Lily Tomlin) meets and falls in love with Strip (John Travolta) who’s at least 15 years younger than her. They both have issues–but do they love each other enough to battle those issues together? Believe me–you won’t care!

I had forgotten that I saw this. I was 16 when it came out and this (inexplicibly) has an R rating. I had always loved Lily Tomlin and wanted to see it. In fact at the time this came out Tomlin and Travolta were (purportedly) madly in love with each other in real life. It turns out that was all a publicity stunt to sell the movie. Anyways, I conned my mom into taking me to see it. Wow–was THAT a mistake! Talk about dull! My mom and me literally kept dozing off during the movie. By the end (which is REAL stupid) I actually was giggling at how hopeless this movie was. It bombed badly and years of therapy helped me block it. But…it’s come back to haunt me! Tomlin and Travolta CAN be good (given the right material) but this script was just so tedious and dull that even they couldn’t pull it off. Travolta is as good as anyone can be. Tomlin REALLY tries but she’s hopelessly miscast. She only got the role because director Jane Wagner and her were (and still are) lovers. I (sorta) want to see this on DVD to see if it’s as bad as I remembered. I’ve heard there might actually be a DVD release of this in the works. That would be kind of cool. A 1 all the way.