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Length: 02:16
Posted: 9/3/2009
This Australian coming-of-age comedy/drama features Brenda Blethyn as Jeannie, a semi-monstrous mom who gave up a promising career as a British comic to move Down Under and marry a one-hit wonder country singer. One of her two sons is mentally handicapped (Richard Wilson); the other is a sensitive kid named Tim (Kham Chittenden), whose sexual maturity has been waylaid by his clingy mom's fear of being abandoned again (her husband--understandably--left her). He's got to look after his brother and drive Mom to her local club gigs as she attempts a comeback. Complications arise when Tim meets Jill (Emma Booth), a girl cute and bright enough to be worth standing up to his mother for. watch
Tony and Dr. Bellows leave for Hollywood on NASA business. Gary Owens and George Schlatter of Laugh In see Jeannie pop in and out of a mirror as she waves goodbye to Tony. Roger overhears them ask Jeannie to appear on their show and immediately takes over as her agent. He convinces Jeannie to go along with his plans so she can impress Tory as a Hollywood celebrity. At the hotel in Hollywood, Roger tries to keep Tony from meeting Jeannie, whom he has billed as "Princess Anitra." However, a news photographer snaps them together in a corridor at midnight.. Tony convinces Bellows he was sleepwalking, but worries when Judy Carne shows him the picture. Determined to get Jeannie back to Cocoa Beach, Tony imprisons Jeannie in her bottle and tells Dr. Bellows it's shaving lotion. When Flip Wilson and Arte Johnson come to escort Jeannie to the studio, Dr. Bellows is shaving: As he opens Jeannie's bottle, she blinks and a baby skunk appears. Bellows emerges, choking. To elude him, Roger climbs ou watch
The theme to "I Dream of Jeannie" (season two and later), performed by R. A. Wilson, Manualist. watch
