{"id":33153,"date":"2023-06-24T07:04:05","date_gmt":"2023-06-24T11:04:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/?p=33153"},"modified":"2023-06-24T07:04:05","modified_gmt":"2023-06-24T11:04:05","slug":"the-end-1978-starring-burt-reynolds-dom-deluise-z-view","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/?p=33153","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;The End&#8221; (1978) starring Burt Reynolds &#038; Dom DeLuise \/ Z-View"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/stallonezone.com\/zone\/2023\/z062423zview_theend.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"747\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong><em>The End <\/em><\/strong>(1978)<\/p>\n<p>Director: <strong>Burt Reynolds<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Screenplay: <strong>Jerry Belson<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Stars: <strong>Burt Reynolds, Sally Field, Dom DeLuise, Strother Martin, David Steinberg, Joanne Woodward, Norman Fell, Myrna Loy, Kristy McNichol, Pat O&#8217;Brien, Robby Benson <\/strong>and <strong>Carl Reiner<\/strong><strong>.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Tagline:<em> &#8220;After all, what are friends for?&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>The Plot\u2026<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Sonny Lawson (Reynods) learns that he&#8217;s got a fatal blood disease.\u00a0 There is no cure. He will die a slow painful death.\u00a0 So Sonny decides to end his life.\u00a0 But first he visits his girlfriend, family members and a priest.\u00a0 When Sonny fails at his suicide attempt, he ends up in a mental institution. There Sonny befriends a fellow patient named Marlon Borunki (DeLuise).\u00a0 Borunki is happy to help his new friend die&#8230; even after Sonny changes his mind and wants to live!<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong style=\"font-size: inherit; color: var(--text-color); font-family: var(--text-font);\"><strong style=\"font-size: inherit; color: var(--text-color); font-family: var(--text-font);\">Thoughts (beware of spoilers)\u2026<\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><em>The End<\/em> doesn&#8217;t really come alive (see what I did there?) until Dom DeLuise shows up.\u00a0 There are some truly funny scenes from there on.\u00a0 Most are with DeLuise and Reynolds, but Burt has a funny extended solo scene where he bargains with God to stay alive.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Reynolds plays a very unlikeable character.\u00a0 If he were more likeable, the audience would want him to live.\u00a0 <em>The End<\/em> features a great cast, but there are so many characters that they aren&#8217;t given much to do.\u00a0 Robbie Benson as a young priest gets the most laughs (outside of Reynolds and DeLuise).\u00a0 Sally Field is always a welcome addition.\u00a0 I wish <em>The End<\/em> started in the mental institution with DeLuise wanting to help Reynolds by killing him. Then Reynolds learns that he&#8217;s not really dying, but DeLuise doesn&#8217;t know or care&#8230; he&#8217;s on a mission.\u00a0 Give me an hour and a half of that!\u00a0 But that would be another movie.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: var(--text-color); font-family: var(--text-font); font-size: inherit;\"><strong><em>The End <\/em><\/strong>(1978) rates 2 of 5 stars.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/stallonezone.com\/zone\/logo\/zview_d.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"100\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/stallonezone.com\/zone\/2023\/z062423zview_theend2.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"361\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The End (1978) Director: Burt Reynolds Screenplay: Jerry Belson Stars: Burt Reynolds, Sally Field, Dom DeLuise, Strother Martin, David Steinberg,<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":912,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[17,63,54,74],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-33153","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-celebs","category-humor","category-movies","category-z-view"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33153","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/912"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=33153"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33153\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":33168,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33153\/revisions\/33168"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=33153"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=33153"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=33153"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}