At 84th Street Six, at Broadway Sutton, Third Avenue at 57th Street Criterion, Broadway at 45th Street Movieland Eighth Street, at University Place Bay Cinema, Second Avenue at 32d Street 86th Street Twin, at Third Avenue. Fishpond United States, PLEASURE BOX SURRENDER CINEMA SET (Net) (MR) (C:Buy. Love and Money SURRENDER, written and directed by Jerry Belson director of photography, Juan Ruiz Anchia film editor, Wendy Greene Bricmont music by Michel Colombier produced by Aaron Spelling and Alan Greisman released by Warner Bros. ''Surrender'' is rated PG (''Parental Guidance Suggested''). Among the film's better elements are supporting performances by Peter Boyle, as a lawyer who wears quite a remarkable hairpiece for his courtroom appearances, and Julie Kavner, who's the ideal actress for any film requiring a big-hearted, wisecracking best friend. Belson's style is amiable, if sloppy - the film has been very unattractively shot - and it's certainly painless. By the time Daisy has won the lottery at Lake Tahoe and crawled into bed under a covering of $5 bills, the story threatens to become truly bizarre. ''Surrender,'' which opens today at the Criterion Center and other theaters, seesaws aimlessly as it plays out this triangular romance, pausing every now and then to work an element of comic avarice into the proceedings. Caine's Sean, a wealthy man badly victimized by women, has soon devised an elaborate plot to keep Miss Field's Daisy from knowing that he has money. If it really happened, then it was undoubtedly less strange in real life than it is on the screen. Caine and Miss Field get acquainted in the movie. sexploitation film, sexy and ambiguous ending films with plots about female nudity.
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Belson as saying that ''everything that happened in the movie happened to me.'' So perhaps he, like Sean Stein, the best-selling author played by Michael Caine, attended a party at which terrorists invaded, forced the guests to strip and then tied them together in pairs, which is how Mr. Story: The Surrender is a romantic erotic film based on the novel The. The production notes describe the film as ''semi-autobiographical'' and quote Mr. Miss Field is spunky, all right, but she's always better in more serious roles, ones that present fewer opportunities for the kind of bottom-wriggling and eye-rolling that she does here. But it then develops into a too-cute romance centering on Sally Field, who fends off her rival suitors with a snappiness Doris Day would envy. It starts out as a satire about love and money, with Michael Caine as an unlucky-in-love celebrity author who's paying alimony and palimony too.
JERRY BELSON, who wrote and directed ''Surrender,'' almost certainly has a better idea of what this film is about than any audience will.