This is yet another comedy, with a very talented and famous cast. Keanu Reeves plays twenty year old Martin Loader, who still lives at home, a young man at the center of attention, with Barbara Hershey as his twice divorced 38 year old Aunt Julia , and love interest!( oops!) The bulk of the action takes place in a radio station, during the heyday of radio serial plays...the forerunner of television soap operas, written by the Newly imported writer,Pedro Carmichael played by Peter Falk, hired by the station to boost the failing ratings on it's daily soaps, who is more a reality stealer than a writer of fiction. He makes it the nefarious business of his to set Keanu and Barbara up in compromising positions, tapes the conversations, and then inserts their words into his radio plays.John Larroquette plays a southern gentleman, in the strictest sense of the word, during the times when the film brings the "radio plays" to visual life. Half of the city is scandalized by the torrid love affair, even while they are fascinated by it.As in everything he does, Falk is totally in control and aware of what is going on,and completely believable in the part. Tune in tomorrow is a zany romantic comedy, that will leave you wanting more!
On a more serious note,one of the reasons I found it compelling was because the movie takes place in New Orleans, and was probably filmed there for the most part, (long before the recent tragic devastation) while that city was still beautiful and the surrounding countryside was lovely and green. Never having been there, I thought it a piece of nostalgia for something which we may never see again.
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