FILM REVIEW
By Loren King
If you know Olympia Dukakis only from her pitch-perfect, Oscar-winning role as Cher’s sharp-tongued Italian mother in “Moonstruck” (1987), you’re missing a lot.
Fortunately, you can fill in the gaps with Harry Mavromichalis’ 2018 documentary“Olympia,” available for streaming through the Jane Pickens Theater. It’s a delightfully revealing and touching overview of the extraordinary life and career of Dukakis, now 89, the daughter of Greek immigrants in Massachusetts and first cousin of former Massachusetts governor and 1988 presidential nominee Michael Dukakis.
Although it is the candid, bawdy Dukakis herself that makes the documentary so entertaining, the film is also a worthwhile show business chronicle. After graduating from Boston University, the attractive Dukakis wasn’t getting good stage roles in New York because she was categorized as too ethnic. So, she launched her own theater, the Whole Theater Co. in Montclair, New Jersey, along with Louis Zorich, her husband of 55 years. The irrepressible Zorich figures prominently in the film, completed just before he died. (Read More)
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