Vibes

Vibes (1988)

The psychic comedy that's out of its mind.

Medium Sylvia Pickel and psychometrist Nick Deezy meet at a psychic research facility in New York. Not long after, they're contacted by Harry Buscafusco, who offers them $50,000 to find his lost son in South America, in the heart of Incan territory where they discover an ancient mystical secret, and each other.

Date of release
1988-08-05
TMDB
5.6 / 10 (87)
Runtime
1h 39m
Genres
Romance, Action, Comedy
Director
Ken Kwapis

Casting

Interesting facts

Vibes is a 1988 American romantic fantasy adventure comedy film directed by Ken Kwapis and starring Cyndi Lauper, Jeff Goldblum, Julian Sands and Peter Falk. The plot concerns Sylvia, an eccentric psychic, and Nick, her equally odd psychic friend and their trip into the Ecuadorian Andes to find the "source of psychic energy".

Production

The movie was described as "Romancing the Ghostbusters in the Temple of Doom." It was originally meant to star Lauper and Dan Aykroyd.

Lauper said, "I've wanted to do a movie for a long time, but I didn't want to do a typical airhead version of what Hollywood thinks a woman is-and I didn't want to do an ultra-serious La Femme! film either. The character I play in this film, Sylvia, is the kind of girl who's very conscious of her appearance and always wants to look good, but unfortunately her favorite color is leopard skin.

Aykroyd met with Lauper and decided he did not want to do the film. Columbia Pictures stood by Lauper and Jeff Goldblum replaced Aykroyd. Filming started in April 1987 in Ecuador. After three weeks, the unit transferred to Los Angeles for the rest of the shoot over nine weeks.

"Acting and performing music come from the same place, but each requires a slightly different technique," said Lauper. "To play Sylvia, I had to learn to tone everything down. I'm used to things being exaggerated and larger than life-you know, the eyes going back and forth-because those things work in a big concert hall. To perform for a movie camera, you have to be capable of a certain stillness.

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