Continental Divide is an American comedy, released in 1981, directed by John Belushi and produced by Steven Spielberg. Comedy is the use of humour in the performing arts. ... 1981 is a common year starting on Thursday. ... John Belushi as Bluto in Animal House John Belushi (right) with Dan Akroyd in The Blues Brothers John Adam Belushi (January 24, 1949–March 5, 1982) was an American actor and comedian. ... Steven Spielberg Steven Allan Spielberg (born on December 18, 1946 in Cincinnati, Ohio), is a Jewish-American film director whose films range from science fiction to historical drama to horror. ...
The film follows the story of Chicago reporter Ernie Souchak (John Belushi), whose apartment is destroyed when he becomes too heavily involved with the Mob, and eagle researcher Nell Porter (Blair Brown), whom Souchak's editor sends him to investigate, providing Souchak with a relief from troubles in Chicago. The two are at odds at first but eventually fall in love. Souchak is later forced to return to Chicago when one of his sources is mysteriously killed. Chicago (officially named the City of Chicago) is the third largest city in the United States (after New York City and Los Angeles), with an official population of 2,896,016, as of the 2000 census. ... The Mafia, also referred to as La Cosa Nostra (Italian, variously translated as This Thing Of Ours or Our Thing), is the collective name of various secret organizations in Italy, Sicily, Corsica and the United States. ... Blair Brown (b. ...
A continentaldivide is a line of elevated terrain which forms a border between two watersheds such that water falling on one side of the line eventually travels to one ocean or body of water, and water on the other side travels to another, generally on the opposite side of the continent.
It is similarly difficult to distinguish Europe and Asia's continentaldivides because of the large number of distinct bodies of water into which their rainfall drains (for example, the Mediterranean Sea and its various lobes, the Atlantic Ocean, the North Sea, the Baltic Sea, the Arctic Ocean and the Black Sea with Europe).
The broad outline for ContinentalDivide is so suggestive, at least by Hollywood standards, that I wish I liked the movie more than I did.
As the story of a city-slicker misogynist transformed by love for a bush-roughing woman, it's surprisingly progressive: when the annoying city mouse/country mouse gimmick falls away, we have a story of two lovers trying to reconcile their disparate lifestyles without costing one or the other their independence.
Ernie Souchak is one of those movie reporters whose powers extend beyond the police, the government, the laws of time and physics--he's so omnipotent in his muckraking that by ContinentalDivide's midpoint, they're bombing his apartment, pushing his saintliness factor well past the legal limit.
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