He Said, She Said (1991)

Truly Dreadful Film

Don't listen to the negative reviews

Brilliant and touching

Each character in this movie — down to the smallest one — is an individual rather than a type, prone to spontaneous changes of mood and sometimes amusing outbursts of pettiness or ill humor.

This movie makes a real effort to expose some core issues of love relationships. The dramatic format juxtaposes two points of view to the same events and draws out some fairly profound, though simple, truths as the characters struggle to make sense out of their experiences. It's as if they try to discover "what does it all mean?" while figuring out "what does he/she mean to me?" The movie lives in the small world of a specific relationship, not grand cosmic threads. I don't want to make more out of the movie than is there, but I can't help thinking about the bigger things as these two people try to reconcile their personal versions of the relationship. This is the second time I've seen this movie over a decade. It still strikes me the same way.

He Said, She Said is a great romantic comedy. I caught this on HBO and loved it. The chemistry between Dan(Bacon) and Lorie(Perkins) really jumps out at you. They are perfect for the part. I found the movie to also be quite funny. A lot of the humor was from Dan and Lorie's different point of views and how they saw everything the exact opposite from each other. There were also some hilarious parts involving one of Dan's old girlfriends Linda(Stone). I found this to be a very cute romantic comedy with plenty of laughs. I'd recommend you check this movie out if you like romantic stories.8/10

I just saw this movie last night & was looking it up, when I found so many negative comments on the film at this website. One user says that he agrees with Maltin that this film is 'piffle': which makes me question Leonard Maltin himself. This movie is far from deserving to be termed 'piffle'. It is a clean, honest movie about typical men & women & the film itself goes into all sorts of very interesting (& light-hearted, thank God) psychological aspects of the two main characters. Another user says it's bad enough to see the story once, but then the torture is doubled when the story starts over from the woman's point of view! I am quite disappointed with this because the obvious point of repeating the whole story from a different point of view are the differences between the two. And these differences are subtle & very significant to the matter of the film. I suspect people do not want to admit that this film touched them -- well, actually, I think people are so conditioned so as to dismiss such a film as 'cheesy' or 'piffle' because of acquired motions of being & seeming brave. In fact, the people who do not respond positively to this film are very much like the male character in this film, who is incapable of allowing himself true feelings, for if he does, he loses his bravery construct. This film is a very compelling, very sweetly made film that will really change you if you allow it to. And that's the point really, we have to ask ourselves how much we do or don't allow ourselves to be changed by the things around us. In my opinion, everyone should watch this film and judge for themselves. Forget Maltin & the other cynics, we're just ordinary people trying to lead better lives, you know. And this film is very much about that, and in my opinion is something like a minor classic, the 'Casablanca' if you may, of modern-day cubicle romance.

A unusual take on modern romance, HE SAID SHE SAID looks at a relationship in trauma from both sides--first, we see Kevin Bacon's take (his insecurities, job woes, she's a competitor for a promotion, they swoop into romance...in other words the essentials of the plot without much dressing up), then we get Perkins' viewpoint (her breakup before Bacon, her belief that he's favored for the promotion, her plotting to get him to dance), which is much more emotional, and ultimately more entertaining.A very pleasant and enjoyable tale, well worth the rental--especially to see Perkins' re-interpretation of Bacon and his 'past' with old flame Sharon Stone.