Happy 4th of July and happy having-all-ten-fingers day to everyone else.
Born blind, Don (Eddie Alpert) has struggled to get a measure of independence from his overbearing mother (Eileen Heckart). He gets an apartment in downtown San Francisco and an agreement of two months' trial run of living alone. Barely a month in, new neighbor Jill (Goldie Hawn) shows up. She is a whirlwind of free-spirited free love with absolutely no inclination towards commitment. So naturally, Don falls head over heels for her.
There's no narrative reason Hawn had to be in her underwear for half this movie but choices were made. Heckart won an Oscar and deservedly so, considering she's in the Buddy Epsen role. I'm not kidding. This is beat for beat Breakfast at Tiffany's, complete with the child-bride subplot. The only difference is that Don is blind and writes music instead of novels. He has precisely one (1) song and it gets used a half dozen times, enough for you to be grateful when he switches to "Country Roads."
It's streaming on the Roku channel with ads, but Breakfast at Tiffany's is on Paramount+ and is a much better use of your time. Even with the super-racist Mickey Rooney role.
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