1977 was a big year for the world. Some people remember it as the year punk was born, but others associate it with movie history. It's the 1939 of the 70s because of this Jodie Foster classic. I am severely stricken by nostalgia whenever I watch this movie, so I'm completely biased. Even so, this movie is really really fun. Only a year after Taxi Driver, Jodi Foster makes a complete transformation and stars in this Disney epic [as a street tough, not a prostitute]. Anyway, there's a hoax, see -- a lone shark/small time crook wants to pawn her off as a long-lost granddaughter of an elderly British lady who owns an estate. Once she's planted on the estate, her job is to find the buried treasure that a pirate kept there, or else the lone shark will murder Jodie Foster. Yikes! Intense, right? Meanwhile, Jodie Foster starts to feel at home on the estate and makes pals with the other kids and butler who live there. She also starts to find clues where the buried treasure is proverbially buried, and many of the clues are hinged upon a Thomas Grey poem [a literary allusion, cool].David Niven, the butler, has a duel with Leo McKern [of Help! fame] and fights an ax using his umbrella. Awesome!
5/5 pizzas
, highly recommended
I'd like to think of this movie as the sequel to Taxi Driver. This is Jodi Foster's life once she goes home.
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