The Woman in Red (1984): movie

The Woman in Red (1984) - IMDb

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With Gene Wilder, Kelly LeBrock, Charles Grodin, Joseph Bologna. On his way to work, Teddy spots Charlotte - an incredibly beautiful Woman in Red. He really ...

 

I recorded this likely off of MGM or TCM HD channel that both have a lot of movies. This movie is now 30 years old? Unbelievable to me because I was 36 then and my Dad was still alive at that point. (Better times?) 

 

Anyway, this movie is a comedy set in San Francisco with Gene Wilder with a funny part by Gilda Radner from SNL (his real life wife who later passed away in the 1980s I believe). 

 

This movie shows how men still were who were primarily between the ages of 40 and 60 then. I was a 60s person so I was somewhat different from this type of man in San Francisco.

 

Alongside this movie in real life there was an AIDS epidemic going on in San Francisco at this time (even though I'm not sure if people knew what it was yet in 1984 or how it transmitted or much about it at all.

 

Here is the statistic from Wikipedia found under "HIV/AIDS":

The epidemic then rapidly spread among high-risk groups (initially, sexually promiscuous men who have sex with men). By 1978, the prevalence of HIV-1 among gay male residents of New York and San Francisco was estimated at 5%, suggesting that several thousand individuals in the country had been infected.^[204]

 

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^{So, anyway, this was also going on alongside the movie in real life. So, we find at least one homosexual member of the group and at least 2 more people one might identify as homosexual as well as some bi-sexual tendencies in the rest of the male group of men who are friends.} 

 

^{In combination with this we have promiscuity going on (extramarital relationships) and we also have it a lot like it was for men and women (who were over 35 to 40 years of age in 1984).} 

 

^{There was sort of a collision of different value systems in San Francisco at that time in middle or upper class people throughout California. Also, acceptance of friends that might be gay was sort of like this in San Francisco and Los Angeles among people who were educated and successful as well. So, this is a lot how it was in Los Angeles and San Francisco in 1984.}  

 

^{Younger people might put value judgements of how people are behaving in this movie, but unless you grew up when they did such value judgements would be useless to people  in those times.}