movie mixed scissors scenes 
by dmg e-mail:donfreeman@webtv.net
Freebie And The Bean


STARRING: James Caan Alan Arkin

ACCESS: video/also shown on cable

GENERAL DESCRIPTION: wacky, offbeat "buddy" comedy about two detectives
dealing with the mob and their own superiors. there are some very funny
moments in the movie, like when a car chase ends with them flying off a
highway exit ramp through the window of a nearby apartment house. an
astonished but uninjured elderly couple watch on as our two heroes get out of
their totaled vehicle. Alan Arkin faints as James Caan asks to use the phone.
he then calls in for a tow truck, sheepishly adding that they should come up
to the 3rd floor. very funny.

SCISSORS SCENE: more than any other scene i have ever reviewed, this one comes
out of nowhere. in fact, as the scene begins, there is not even a woman in
sight. our two semi-inept title characters are across the street from a barber
shop keeping an eye on a mob big shot and his bodyguards. they are expecting
that a hit man from Detroit will try to kill him. a big car with Michigan
plates pulls up and they assume it's the hit man. as they rush across the
street the "hit man" begins talking to a very sharply dressed thirty-something
woman with dark hair pulled back to a bun behind her head. she's about 5'5
wearing a tight brown jacket and pants. the two aggressively confront the man
and he and Freebie (Caan) start fighting. as the Bean (Arkin) tries to join
in, the woman jumps on his back applying a combination head lock and
bodyscissors. he struggles mightily but cannot escape her grip. after about
5-6 seconds he frees his head at which time she grabs a nearby streetpole
while still keeping him tied up in the scissors. he gives up trying to fight
her and just tries to reach over to help out his partner. he can do little,
however, as her very strong legs are still restraining him. in the background
we see a cop car arrive and two uniformed cops "rescue" him from the
determined woman. they pry her hands off the pole and make her release him. at
this point we focus on James Caan who proceeds to dish out a "Sonny Corleone"
sized beating to the male. then they find out the guy wasn't a hitman after
all, just an adulterous car salesman.

POSITIVES: good camera work, nice looking, very athletic lady, no squeezing
but she keeps a struggling man "thighed up" for quite a while.

NEGATIVES: it's not a really erotic type of scene showing a lot of skin,
and/or reaction on the part of the male. it was set in a somewhat more
"realistic" setting than most scissors scenes. this spontaneity compensates
for the lack of drawn out detail.

OVERALL RATING:**