Lily Tomlin and John Travolta's brilliant "Moment By Moment"!

I don't see many movies, but I did watch this one once on TV. My favorite moment is when Tomlin is on the phone with Travola (whose character is named "Strip") and she utters the immortal line, "Oh Strip, Strip, Strip..." without bringing any conviction to it.

Was it meant to be as hilarious as it plays?

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I think Jane may have bought into the false notion that "we're all exactly alike except for who we like to have sex with!".

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It is no hyperbole to say this is the worst movie ever made.

Apparently, there's so bad it's good, and then there's so bad it's brilliant.
Eric, is that your feeling?

Updated On: 6/16/13 at 07:53 AM

One of the most spectacularly bizarre films out there.

Travolta's sexual identity may have been unclear to audiences back in 1978, but was Lily Tomlin **ever** a plausible cougar?

The epic lack of chemistry veers into the truly creepy when the idea hits you--and I think it hits everyone within the first 15 minutes of the film--that they are far more plausibly mother/son or brother/sister than the alleged strangers the movies wants us to take them for.

That Jane Wagner should have been involved just makes the whole thing surreal--perhaps this is the other half of some Faustian bargain that Jane & Lily made in exchange for a life of brilliant creative collaboration?

I like the article's statement that 'Moment by Moment' is "a movie that literally does nothing right, one so bizarrely off that it borders on avant-garde." I would love to learn that the project was some profoundly insightful surrealist farce or, as Eric suggests, a meta-joke delivered in a profoundly deadpan style--like one of those incredibly uncomfortable Andy Kaufman nightclub performances.

I've read that Tomlin squashed any idea of releasing the film on VHS/DVD etc. due to her deep mortification about what an epic mistake the project was, suggesting that there probably are no deeper layers--just a tragic mistake by one of our most brilliant performers.

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Anyone ever notice the uncanny resemblance between Tomlin and Travolta's older sister, Ellen? Ellen Travolta is 14 years older than John, almost the exact same age as Tomlin. Creepy.

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I would class it in the so bad it's brilliant category--but the few times I have watched it I have not been sober, which probably helps (as it is SLOW.)

I remember Ellen from Charles in Charge, and the similarities are unmistakeable. I love Addison's suggestion that it was a Faustian deal for how great most of Jane and Lily's other work was.

Ewwww!!! Gross!!