This is the homage to Sunset Boulevard.\u00a0 Ida Lupino is playing an over the hill actress named Barbara Jean Trenton.\u00a0 Martin Balsam plays her manager Danny Weiss who wants her to stop living in the past and rejoin the world.\u00a0 But Barbara Jean wants it to be 1934 forever, back when she was a beautiful young star.\u00a0 So basically, this is Norma Desmond from Sunset Boulevard except instead of murder we get urban fantasy.\u00a0 So, no surprise, after she realizes she was too old for the movies the world no longer had any appeal.\u00a0 So, of course, she ends up entering into the 16 millimeter film of the title.\u00a0 She is seen walking off camera with all of her old friends from twenty five years ago.<\/p>\n
Obviously, there are no surprises here.\u00a0 It\u2019s a straight forward wish fulfillment plot.\u00a0 It\u2019s a good story and I\u2019ll give it a B.\u00a0 Not bad.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
This is the homage to Sunset Boulevard.\u00a0 Ida Lupino is playing an over the hill actress named Barbara Jean Trenton.\u00a0 Martin Balsam plays her manager<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[237,4,244,240,1661],"tags":[1675,1676,1194,1677,838],"class_list":["post-5858","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-reviews","category-sff","category-sff-tv-reviews","category-tv-reviews","category-twilight-zone","tag-ida-lupino","tag-martin-balsam","tag-rod-serling","tag-the-sixteen-millimeter-shrine","tag-twilight-zone"],"yoast_head":"\n