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At the Movies

by Barbara and Kevin Kunz

This page is just for the fun of it. But there may be a bigger message. We theorized several years ago
that reflexology was an archetype rediscovered over and over again throughout time. Archetypes are frequently reflected in the culture. Movies reflect our modern culture.

Reflexology at the Movies

Year

Movie

Description

1966

Arabesque

Sophia Loren's tired feet are rubbed by a romantic pursuer.

1980

Atlantic City

With Burt Lancaster and Susan Sarandon, An older, bed-ridden woman and a younger woman become friends as they exchange foot work. The young woman says, "Did you know that your whole body ends at the bottom of your feet? Do you think I'm just poking your feet. Well, when I touch this spot here, this is where your spine is. When I touch this spot here, this is where your tummy is." The older lady responds as the work continues, "Do my sinuses again." Later, after the younger woman's husband dies, the older lady works on her feet as they discuss philosophies of life.

1991

Beauty and the Beast

In one scene, the Beast advises Beauty that men like to have their feet rubbed.

1985

A Bunny's Tale

"Try rolling a Coke bottle under your arches," advises a co-worker as actress Kirstie Ally rubs her feet, tired from her first evening as a bunny at a Playboy club. Ally plays Gloria Steinem in the real-life story of a journalist who goes undercover as a Playboy bunny in 1963.

1963

Charade

Cary Grant works on the tired feet of Audrey Hepburn.

1985

Cocoon

Directed by Ron Howard, An extraterrestrial played by Tawny Walsh (daughter of Rachel Walsh) works on the injured foot of a boat's captain played by Steve Guttenburg.

1996

Everything to Gain

Made-for-television movie, Foot working scene in a movie about "a police detective who helps a New York ad executive go on after she loses her husband and children to murder." Starring Sean Young and Jack Scalia.

1938

Give Me a Sailor

Actress Martha Raye comments as she rubs her feet, "My feet don't point the way I'm going anymore....I'd follow you to the ends of the earth - even on these feet."

1993

Heartbeat

Made-for-television movie, "Pregnancy and a husband complicate the relationship of two TV producers in love. From the Danielle Steel novel." John Ritter works on the feet of co-star Polly Draper whose character is pregnant.

1934

Imitation of Life

Claudette Colbert plays a young widow who builds a booming pancake business with her maid and her pancake recipe. The maid, played by Louise Beaver, works on Colbert's feet in two different scenes as they discuss their lives. In the first scene, Colbert returns from her job of selling maple syrup door to door and says, "Oh, my feet hurt." Beaver says, "Well come on honey. Sit down and let me rub your feet." Colbert responds to the work on her feet by saying, "Oh, that rests me all over." In a second scene that takes place years later, Colbert's feet are tired from a party and Beaver once again rubs her feet. "That's what you used to do in the old Broadway days. Remember? When my feet ached from selling maple syrup?"

1959

Imitation of Life

Lana Turner plays the leading role in a re-make of the 1934 film of the same title. She plays a young widow who pursues her acting career and makes her maid rich. The maid works on Turner's feet, tired from a party. "Ah, that feels good," comments Turner in a foot working scene shortened from the 1934 version.

1991

A Kiss Before Dying

With Matt Dillon and Sean Young, A foot washing scene opens a "thriller about a killer."

1990

The Kissing Place

Made-for-cable movie, Meredith Baxter-Birney plays a "maniacal woman who relentlessly pursues a youngster she and her weak-willed husband (played by David Ogden Stiers) have abducted - and who has escaped." In one scene Ogden Stiers rubs the feet of Baxter-Birney as the two sit on a couch and discuss her problems.

1994

Lightning Jack

In a movie about the Old West, actress Beverly D'Angelo works on the feet of actor Paul Hogan as they talk. She cracks his foot to emphasize a point

1993

The Man with Three Wives

Made-for-television-movie, Beau Bridges plays a medical researcher with a wife and children who becomes involved with and marries two other women. In one scene, he works on the feet of one of his wives and then she works on his feet.

1993

Married to It

With Beau Bridges, Stockard Channing, Three couples who get to know each other at a school function share life's problems and solutions. A foot working scene is included in the movie.

1988

Married to the Mob

A recently widowed mob wife played by Michelle Pheiffer starts life anew as a cosmetologist. The FBI agent assigned to follow her in his investigation of the mob asks her for a date. After an evening out, they return to her apartment which is bugged by the FBI. Foot sore, after a day of work and an evening of dancing, she asks him, "Would you rub my feet? They're killing me." He complies and says, "You know I'm actually pretty good at this." She comments, "Oh, that feels good. Don't stop."

1987

Overboard

A millionairess played by Goldie Hawn falls overboard, develops amnesia and, as background to a group conversation, works on the feet of Kurt Russell who is portraying her pretend husband.

1988

Quiet Victory, The Charlie Weidermyer Story

Made-for-TV Movie, A high school foot ball coach's struggle with Lou Gehrig's disease is detailed. At one point in the program, his wife looks at various books including a reflexology book to find ways to help her husband.

1988

Rock'n' Roll Mom

Made-for-TV Movie, Dyan Cannon stars as a grocery store checker and mother who becomes a rock and roll star. She encounters rock and roll characters such as the demanding teenage age star who interrupts a recording session to ask, "Hasn't anyone found my reflexologist yet?"

1976

Stay Hungry

With Jeff Bridges, Sally Field and Arnold Swartzenegger in his second movie role, Jeff Bridges works on Sally Fields' feet as part of a date by the two characters they portray, a rich Southerner who has opened a body building gym and a former professional ice skater who has injured her ankle. Bridges' character says as he works on her feet, "Did you know that every part of the foot corresponds to a part of the body? Did you know that?" Here's your spine right here. Feel that. And your lungs over here. And here's your liver."

1985

To Live and Die in L. A.

With Willem Defoe, A background foot working scene of one young woman working on another's foot is included in this story about a Secret Service agent who bends the law to arrest an artist/counterfeiter in L. A.

1989

War of the Roses

With Michael Douglas, Kathleen Turner and Danny DeVito, A womanizing divorce attorney played by Danny DeVito works on his date's feet under the table at a a dinner party.

1991

Wife, Mother, Murderer

Made-for-television movie, In this movie about a wife who poisons her husband, the ill-fated couple, played by Judith Light of Who's the Boss? and David Duke, work on each other's feet.

1995

A Woman of Independent Means

Mini-series, Sally Fields rubs someone's feet in this mini-series about a woman's life.


Reflexology at the Movies - 10 FEB 1997

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