Peereddi I was totally surprised at how great this film.You could feel your paranoia rise as the film went on and as you gradually learned the details of the real situation.

Gary The movie's not perfect, but it sticks the landing of its message. It was engaging - thrilling at times - and I personally thought it was a great time.

Jemima It's a movie as timely as it is provocative and amazingly, for much of its running time, it is weirdly funny.

Fleur Actress is magnificent and exudes a hypnotic screen presence in this affecting drama.

borromeot I never quite figure out Blake Edwards as a filmmaker. He had a side that was as sophisticated and poignant as it was funny. Think "The Party" or the first Pink Panther, the other side was pure commercialism without any regard for its audience. SOB is a blatant example of that. Here he even uses his characters to badmouth "Last Tango In Paris" - The premise is terrific for a biting Hollywood satire but a premise is just a premise. He has to resort to farting during a sequence that should have been a comedy showstopper. Hey he got his wife to go topless and his wife was Julie Andrews - he must have heard cash registers in his mind like Richard Mulligan's character when he decides to put his wife in a porno=erotic something or other to make zillions of dollars. Richard Mulligan plays his suicidal director like he was in a Mack Sennett routine. Outrageous and I'm tempted to say, unforgivable. I must also confess that made me uncomfortable to see William Holden in the middle of it all. Shelley Winter, Robert Preston, Stuart Margolin, Larry Hagman, Robert Vaughn even a glimpse of the very young Rossana Archette keeps the film going. Loretta Swit - of MASH fame - plays a gossip columnist in such a way that may very well explain why she didn't have much of a film career. So, even if I'm aware I've spent a couple of hours with a bunch of characters I hope I never meet in real life, SOB deserves to be seen if only because it is a piece of film history solidly set on its day.

nuv Lemme start by saying that this film is by no means a perfect movie. As a product of it's time, a lot of the freewheeling sex and casual/rampant alcohol and drug use seem rather dated. In fact, it feels decidedly late-70's in that regard, despite it being a film that came out in 1981. But setting all of this aside, it's probably one of the best skewers of the Movie Industry you'll ever see. It's funny, raucous, profane, lewd, many things you would normally expect from a brilliant comedic director like Blake Edwards. But it also has it's bitter-sweet and tender moments, and it's packed-full of stars from the 60s thru the 80s giving some of their best performances in years...so much so that it feels more legitimate and honest in it's examination of the insanity and pretentiousness of Hollywood than any other film I've seen about the industry yet. I've often had folks argue with me that "The Player" is a better critique of the Hollywood machine than this film is. They may think that, but I really enjoyed this movie so much more. It's not nearly as self-congratulatory or as overtly ironic as "The Player"...I love Tim Robbins and what he does in that film, but I'd take 5 minutes of William Holden (in his final performance) over ANY actor in "The Player" any day of the week. If you are a Blake Edwards fan, I must warn you that this is NOT like his Pink Panther films. In fact, I think folks that aren't fans of his work might enjoy this film even more, because then you won't walk into this with any pre-conceived notions of what kind of humor to expect. Don't get me wrong, there's some serious slap-stick gags in this films, ones I still remember to this day. But it's real humor comes from it's hilarious dialogues and conversation, something you don't get nearly as much from his Pink Panther films. You cannot go wrong watching this film. Especially if you love Hollywood.

claudja777 the best comedy of the eighties.Brilliant,funny,grotesque,noir,dramatic,all these stiles mixed greatly thanks to an almost perfect script(nothing to do with the comedy of the last 20 years,based on a simple "situation" which exhaust itself after 20 minute)and a great and ironic Julie Andrews on a parody of herself and of her career-which has been less shiny of what it deserved to be-,not to forgive all the other actors,william holden overall in his last stage,but also the great "double Oscar winner" shelley winters and "J.R." Larry Hagman.An irresistible film full of ideas and definitely rich of style and elegance, with something which is almost impossible to find in nowadays movies:an atmosphere

Marilyn Armstrong From the opening scene to the final fade out, this movie, for it's genre, is as good as it gets.I noticed when they gave Blake Edwards his lifetime achievement award at the Oscars this past year, they did NOT mention S.O.B. amongst his list of films. Interesting. Could it be that this scathingly witting, brilliant, intelligent ... and, oh yes, HILARIOUS ... film cut too close to home?The cast is top drawer and everyone is at the top of his or her game. From Julie Andrews, playing a delicious parody of herself, to William Holden, who in the course of the movie declaims his own obituary, to Robert Preston (not a shyster ... he is a QUACK), it is wonderful. I'm sure the Hollywood Power Players hated it. Unless you are One Of Them, you will probably love it. It's great.