Blame It on Rio

Plot synopsis:
Matthew Hollis (Michael Caine) is married to Karen (Valerie Harper), and father to teenaged daughter, Nikki (Demi Moore). Victor (Joseph Bologna), Matthew's colleague and best friend, who is going through a divorce, is father to 17-year-old Jennifer (Michelle Johnson).
Matthew's marriage is not going well for reasons not explained. Just before they are to leave for a trip to Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, Karen says she is going on vacation by herself to "think about everything." Matthew and Victor decide to go to Rio with their daughters.
Jennifer and Nikki share a room, where she says to Nikki, "Your father is so sweet... I used to have a crush on him," to which Nikki replies, "Me, too." At the beach, Victor and Matthew pass numerous women walking around topless. The fathers spot their daughters in the distance, and the girls turn around to reveal that they are topless, also.
After dropping the girls off at a wedding, the men visit a pub. After Victor pairs off with a local divorcée, Matthew winds up at the wedding, where he runs into Jennifer. They eventually share a passionate kiss, which Nikki witnesses. Matthew and Jennifer have sex on the beach. Matthew stresses it can never happen again. Jennifer begins coming onto Matthew in various, inappropriate situations. At one point, she takes a naked Polaroid of herself and gives it to Matthew in public.
Jennifer tearfully confesses to her dad that she had an affair with an "older man." Victor becomes furious and sets out to hunt down the mystery man, expecting Matthew to help. Matthew tries to talk Jennifer into ending their relationship, but she is determined to never give him up.
Matthew ultimately discloses to his friend that it was he with whom Jennifer had the affair. Victor is not as angry as Matthew expects, because it is revealed that Victor had been having an affair with Karen.
Jennifer tries to commit suicide with an overdose of birth control pills. She survives and the incident brings all closer together, although the men constantly bicker about each other's sexual misconduct. Karen and Matthew decide to work on their marital problems, Jennifer begins dating a young male nurse she met while recuperating in the hospital, and Matthew thanks daughter Nikki for being the only one who has not misbehaved.
As closing credits roll, Matthew, in voice-over narration, says, "You only live once, but it does help if you get to be young twice."

Tags: pornographic, romantic, adult comedy

Review:
I've loved the movie ever since.Everyone knows the premise---Michael Caine and Joseph Bologna take their teenage daughters, Michelle Johnson and Demi Moore to Rio for a vacation.
He is extremely funny in this movie and I can only imagine how much fun he had making it----a guy in his 40s getting to spend a few weeks in one of the most beautiful and exciting cities in the world and having all these love scenes with a girl half his age and getting paid to do it!!!
A comedy where a middle-aged man has sex with his best friend's teenage daughter would seem morally wrong on so many levels as to violate municipal zoning ordinances.
Michelle Johnson is an extraordinarily beautiful woman and an engaging presence when she doesn't have a crying scene, and I think I have grown to appreciate her in other stages of dress, but the person that makes this film work for me now is Caine, whose level of commitment to this film is a thing of wonder."Blame It On Rio" is a sex farce which skates around real human feelings with moments of slapstick and sitcom repartee.
There are about 150 ways the film can go wrong, but Caine sells it by keeping it light and silly.Caine's character, Matthew Hollis, is a sympathetic, awkward type whose life gets upended when his wife Karen (Valerie Harper) decides she isn't going with him on vacation to Rio de Janiero.
So it's just him, his friend Victor (Bologna), Victor's daughter Jennifer (Johnson), and Matthew's daughter Nicole (Demi Moore.) Victor rides Matthew about making the most of his new opportunity: "Is tasting life, creating a little magic, is that cheating?
Caine with anything in his hands, whether it be grating a carrot or brushing his teeth, is joyfully amusing, and his one-liners as revealed "Alfie"-style to the camera are just a lot of fun: "He needed my help...it's like asking an arsonist become the fire chief." Bologna also makes me laugh, but something else, too.
"Blame It On Rio" may be morally dubious, but it's solid Hollywood fun of the kind Donen delivered for decades and as good a film as any for him to go out on.
I love a great script, engaging characters and brilliant cinematography.***This movie has none of these things!But it does have the type of storyline and pointless nudity that Hollywood seems unwilling to include in a mainstream film.
In fact you could even call it charming if not for the fact that there's nothing particularly charming about a middle-aged man having sex with his best friend's teenage daughter.So our story is about this exceedingly inappropriate relationship.
In playing Matthew, the man who can't resist the charms of the teenage temptress, it is Michael Caine who really holds the movie together.
Blame it on rio also stars Michelle Johnson, Joseph Bologna, Valerie Harper, Demi Moore.
Nudity is all over this movie especially Michelle Johnson and a little bit of Demi Moore.
Not the funniest movie ever.....but I have to watch this film at least once a year just so I can fall in Love with Michelle Johnson all over again.
Basically, it's a silly story.Michael Caine ("Matthew") and Joseph Bologna ("Victor") plays some middle- aged guys who are going through marriage problems (bad marriage and a divorce, respectively) so they go down to Brazil to spend money since they're rich.
Demi Moore, by the way, plays Caine's daughter in this movie.It's really not a horrible film but it's pretty inane and crude in areas.
The real shocker might not be all the nudity or sex jokes and lying but who directed the film: good 'ole Stanley Donen, who also gave us "Singin' In The Rain" and "Charade." How in the world did he get involved with this movie?
Apart from some obligatory clichés (which I actually found made the film even funnier), like the many macaws everywhere on everybody's shoulder, people on the beach embraced with apes and women there running in topless, all actors are very good and there is a joke on almost every line.It's a movie for a good and relaxed time that really makes you stand up right away, drive straight to the airport and catch the first flight to...
Meryl Streep and Goldie Hawn certainly acted like that when they saw her in the scene in Death Becomes Her.And it is very cute the way Demi Moore tried to hide herself under her long tresses in the topless beach scene.I have been disappointed not to see more of Michelle Johnson in movies, and I hope she is happy.
This light-hearted comedy features Michael Caine (Matthew) and Joseph Bologna (Victor) as two middle-aged best friends who go on a summer vacation to Brazil, each with a daughter in tow.
Beautiful, voluptuous Michelle Johnson (Jennifer) and a pretty Demi Moore play the teen daughters.
But this movie was such a mess I wondered how it was made.Michael Caine- a very honest man- once confessed that in his later years he has chosen his films based solely on WHERE they will be shot.
And speaking of past primes, director Stanley Donen- at the end of a long and successful career- created a movie so bad he never directed another film.Demi Moore is instantly forgettable in the thankless role of the third wheel.
Blame it on the scriptwriters, who should have realised that a storyline about a teenage girl who goes on holiday to Rio de Janeiro and ends up having an affair with her father's best friend, a married man more then twice her age, would need to be handled sensitively if it were not to end up as little more than barely legal kiddie porn.
The film also introduced another lovely young actress, Demi Moore who plays Nikki, Matthew's daughter and Jennifer's best friend.
Blame It on Rio (1984) * 1/2 (out of 4) Matthew Hollis (Michael Caine) and his best friend Victor (Joseph Bologna) take their 17-year-old daughters on vacation to Rio where all sorts of trouble happens.
I'm going to overlook the subject matter of a man sleeping with his friend's teenage daughter but there's a scene on the beach where the girls are topless and they come up to their fathers in a way, which was just kinda sick to watch.
No comedy, black or otherwise, is supposed to keep the viewer guessing for half the film whether this is the genre That's a big clue that it just doesn't work.I see that Michelle Johnson was nominated for a Razzie, and she certainly deserved it, although Donen's the one really at fault here.
Caine's character takes advantage, utterly ignores his own daughter (Demi Moore is wasted here), lies to his friend, and commits adultery, and we're supposed to find it all very nutty and funny.The plot twist near the end did take me by surprise---contrived though it was---but even then I don't think I smiled once.
In many ways, if you add in sex scenes, Blame it on Rio has the potential of being a soft-core adult movie.
Valerie Harper also makes an appearance alongside a very young Demi Moore who, unlike the eye candy of the movie, Michelle Johnson is reserved.
BLAME IT ON RIO (1984) **1/2 Michael Caine, Joseph Bologna, Valerie Harper, Michelle Johnson, Demi Moore.
Occasionally funny screwball comedy with middle-age crises plagued Caine vacationing with pal Bologna in Rio de Janeiro with their teenage daughters, only for Caine to have an affair with his friend's buxom babe of a daughter (the gravity-defying Johnson) and later her declaration of love leading to all kinds of craziness.
Before the internet, before late-night cable TV shows, before the VCR brought entertainment of all types into the privacy of American homes, there were movies like "10", "The Blue Lagoon", and "Blame it on Rio", whose chief attraction was the opportunity to glimpse beautiful women parade around in nothing or next to it.
I have to admit that the reason was to see some nudity of young women like those of Demi Moore and Michelle Johnson.
Ms. Johnson does reveal her amateurish acting skills when she attempts to confess her affair with a middle-age man (without IDing him) to Caine's best friend and her father, Joseph Bologna, but maybe she's supposed to sound like that.
First of all there is no incest in the story and Demi Moore does not have an affair with Joe Bologna as people have commented below.This film could have been a really good movie if it hadn't been for Michelle Johnson.
She is however very easy on the eye so shes not all bad.Michael Caine is as good as ever and the film does use a few Alfie style monologues to the camera but in the end its the terrible performance from Ms Johnson that leaves the lasting impression..
Fun (and lots of SEX) In Rio. Blame It On Rio is one of my all-time favorite "bad" movies.
The plot is very scandalous - a middle-aged married man (Michel Caine) has an affair with his best friend's teenage daughter.
You really have to see Blame It On Rio because a movie this controversial would never get made today - it's a lot of bad acting, naked women, and a beautiful location..
that don't Try to tell a story, and they try to entertain you with sex, sex jokes, and sometimes a level of unnecessary elements that make the movie experience just bad.Blame it on rio isn't a perfect movie because there is some sex and nudity in the film, but I think it's miles better than some other sex comedy's, and it actually had a story so I give it a 7 out of 10 go see it I recommend it..
One has to blush for Michael Caine who is miscast as a middle aged man who gets seduced by his best friend's daughter while on vacation in Rio De Janeiro.
Caine is 43-year-old Matthew Hollins, who, on vacation in Rio, is dismayed to find himself in love(and having sex)with his best friend's gorgeous teenage daughter.
Imaginative complications ensue, but Caine steals the show while the rest of the cast is consigned to being straight men for Matthew's quips and omniscient narration.The familiar Michelle Johnson plays Victor's teen-aged daughter, Jennifer, with a breathless, hormonal cloud around her, but with a little too much melodrama.
And a surprisingly subdued Demi Moore is interesting to re-visit in an early role as Matthew's morally-grounded teenage daughter, Nikki.This is a fun, Saturday night movie for a date with your wife, unless you have obvious issues with your nubile, teen-aged babysitter.
The seduction of Michael Caine by the nubile young Michelle Johnson is clearly awkward--as it should be, but hell, once entangled in the web, Caine's character keeps on going, like the Energizer bunny!!The most fun part, for me, is Bologna's partnering with Caine to "discover" who the "older man" is who is having an affair with his daughter.
Caine's superior acting ability manages to bring him through the discomfort that ensues.If you're uncomfortable with nudity in films, or films where an older man is supposedly having sex with a girl young enough to be his daughter, then don't bother seeing this film.
The plot is very simple: Two fathers take their daughters on holiday to Rio. Michael Caine then falls in love with his best friends daughter and the results are hilarious.Michael Caine is a very good actor but in this film I feel that he excels himself.
Proof positive that Michael Caine can get away with ANYTHING, I still like him even after seeing this!Also of interest to film historians for the good look at Demi Moore's original bosom..
Caine, giving yet another text book performance, delivers non-stop laughs playing the middle-aged pederast who knows he did wrong, but won't dare tell the truth.Not for all tastes, but for adults looking for a nice little adult sex comedy, you've come to the right place.Terrible soundtrack, nudity galore..
However now I am a man of 34, and while I still look at the girls (who have aged in this movie much better then I have by the way) I look at it from an older point of view, and appreciate it for its depth, and the sweet romantic struggles within the film.
Two friends (Michael Caine, Joe Bologna) go to Rio with their daughters (Michelle Johnson, Demi Moore) for a month.
All the beautiful scenery in the world couldn't help this.Caine is just great; Johnson is OK; Bologna, Moore and Harper are just horrible.Some people think this movie is so bad that it's funny but I think it's too dull for that.
Here, drawing an sexual attraction enigma, like Alvin Purple, young nineteen year old beauty, Jennifer (Johnson, no acting chops wasted although she did get better) falls for forty three year old Matthew (Caine, of course, great as usual and funny) while vacationing in Rio with her father (Bologna) and Caine's perceptive and level headed daughter (Moore).
I first saw this movie when I was 14, and have always found it deliciously entertaining, as in the funny moments, as well as a few scenes which has Caine, speaking to camera, with great comic timing in his delivery of dialogue, not just here.
All film fans must question the usage of names of famous cities as titles of films which have been controversial due to their explicit sexual content.Film fans can cite examples of films like "Last tango in Paris" and "Blame it on Rio".One can wonder what have reputed cities got to do with films wherein characters have indulged in highly irresponsible behavior.Veteran American director Stanley Donen's film "Blame it on Rio" is one of those rare films which legitimizes irresponsible behavior.It is a mystery that it has been classified as a romantic comedy.This must come as a shock to those fans who consider it as a drama film exploring somewhat taboo themes involving bizarre characters who make it a point to outshine each other over matters related to unfaithfulness and sexual misconduct.Apart from Brazilian city Rio De Janeiro,British actor Michael Caine in two different yet fascinating avatars is this film's major attraction.He is good as a narrator but somewhat dorky as an actor.This is fine for critics but would not deter interested daddies to enjoy this film with their nubile daughters.May be they would learn a thing or two from "Blame it on Rio"..
All film fans must question the usage of names of famous cities as titles of films which have been controversial due to their explicit sexual content.Film fans can cite examples of films like "Last tango in Paris" and "Blame it on Rio".One can wonder what have reputed cities got to do with films wherein characters have indulged in highly irresponsible behavior.Veteran American director Stanley Donen's film "Blame it on Rio" is one of those rare films which legitimizes irresponsible behavior.It is a mystery that it has been classified as a romantic comedy.This must come as a shock to those fans who consider it as a drama film exploring somewhat taboo themes involving bizarre characters who make it a point to outshine each other over matters related to unfaithfulness and sexual misconduct.Apart from Brazilian city Rio De Janeiro,British actor Michael Caine in two different yet fascinating avatars is this film's major attraction.He is good as a narrator but somewhat dorky as an actor.This is fine for critics but would not deter interested daddies to enjoy this film with their nubile daughters.May be they would learn a thing or two from "Blame it on Rio"..
At least that's what the publicity says it is - I'm not so sure.Michael Caine and Joseph Bologna are business partners who take their daughters - Demi Moore and Michelle Johnson - on holiday to Rio de Janeiro for reasons which don't really matter.
Hapless middle-aged nerd Matthew Hollis (an excellent and engaging performance by Michael Caine) and his amiable sleaze best friend Victor Lyons (robustly played by Joseph Bologna) go on vacation to Rio with their teenage daughters in tow.
melancholy and sentimental....and besides the jewel that is Rio de Janeiro, the ONLY reason to not seek out a better form of entertainment.Well...maybe a glimpse at the 2 lovely young actresses, Michelle Johnson and Demi Moore would be a reason.
The uncomfortable premise of this mid-'80s sex farce sees middle-aged married man Matthew Hollis (Michael Caine) succumbing to the advances of his best friend's infatuated teenage daughter Jennifer (Michelle Johnson), blaming his scandalous actions on Rio's impulsive atmosphere.
It's reasonably funny to watch, but wildly inappropriate, making the film something of a guilty pleasure, even more so given that its young but well-developed star, Johnson, happily flaunts her naked body at every opportunity.Those who opt to fly down to Rio with Caine and Co. will also be treated to an early appearance from Demi Moore as Matthew's daughter Nicole, who also briefly goes topless, and the unforgettable sight of Michael Caine's incredibly massive spectacles (blame THEM on the '80s!)..
I am not exactly sure where the film was shot, but wherever it was could definitely pass for Rio. I actually found the movie itself annoying though because Michelle was portrayed as an over emotional and naïve (some may call a typical teenage girl) and I did not like this.
At the time the film came out I was nearly Michael Caine's age and shared many of his mid-life frustrations about marriage and certainly enjoyed the fantasy about having an affair with a young woman my junior in exotic Rio. Over the past two decades things have changed.
But now, I'm quite a bit older, and can see that it was much more.**SPOILERS AHEAD**What really makes this film unique is the power struggle between Michael Caine (Matthew) and the lovely Michelle Johnson (Jennifer).
Blame It On Rio. Caine is hilarious as a man who has a fling with his best friend's lovely and very sexy daughter (Michelle Johnson).
Bologna is the girl's father and he's terrific as he has a fling with a young Demi Moore, who is Caine's daughter.