This being Thursday, it's time for another edition of Thursday Movie Picks, the blogathon run by Wandering Through the Shelves. The theme this week is "Day or Night in Title", and since I have a feeling the series isn't going to be continuing next year, and because I don't see myself doing a post for the TV-themed Thursday Movie Picks in two week's time, I decided I'd do two posts for this edition of the blogathon, one with movies with "Day" in the title, and the other with "Night". Since the night comes after the day, I did "Day" movies first, and now we get "Night" movies, again with a very slight theme:
Saturday Night and Sunday Morning (1960). Albert Finney plays a blue collar worker in England who doesn't like the sort of life that working-class Brits in those days were doomed to wind up in, so he decides to spend his money having fun. Unfortunately he has an affair with the wife of a co-worker, and a girlfriend who won't put out for him, leading to him knocking up the co-worker's wife. She shockingly wants an abortion (shockingly because abortion was not legal in the UK at the time).
Saturday Night Fever (1977). John Travolta plays a young man from Brooklyn working a dead-end job and living with his parents. He dreams of going to the disco on Saturday nights, and possibly escaping Bay Ridge if he can win the big dance competition. But to do that he's going to have to find the sort of dance partner who won't care for him in a romantic way. Family life is also becoming more complicated....
Uptown Saturday Night (1974). Sidney Poitier directed himself as a working man hoping to make enough money to move out to the country with his wife. Bill Cosby plays his cabbie friend who convinces him to go to an illegal casino one Saturday night, when the place gets held up and he loses his wallet. The next day he finds out that he's won the lottery. Except that the winning ticket was in the wallet he lost...
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