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.
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