Rhoda (1974)★ 6.8/10
- Comedy
Directed by: Tony Mordente, Robert Moore, Asaad Kelada, Howard Storm, Doug Rogers
Written by: James L. Brooks, Allan Burns, David Davis, Lorenzo Music, Gloria Banta
Rhoda Morgenstern leaves best pal Mary Richards and her other friends in Minneapolis, Minn., to try her luck in Manhattan.
- Original title
- Rhoda
- Storyline
- After spending several years in her young adult life in Minneapolis but with her brash Bronx Jewish upbringing in tow and with its associated sarcasm, artistically inclined Rhoda Morgenstern returns to her hometown of New York City to begin life anew. She continues her navigation of searching for true love, initially with Joe Girard, the owner of his own wrecking company, he being the original reason she decided to move back to New York to begin with. Her relationships with Joe and with other men are an evolution to often being the pursued from what was a self-perception of being the overweight ugly duckling always doing the pursuing and mostly of undesirable men who she felt were the only people she could pursue. She also tries to find her place in the working world, doing something using her artistic abilities honed in art school such as the window dressing work she did in Minneapolis. Through it all, she reestablishes a day-to-day relationship with her family: her overbearing and diminutive mother, Ida; her often over-supportive father, Martin; and her baby sister Brenda, whose evolution as a human almost mirrors Rhoda's own when Rhoda was Brenda's age.
- Rating
- 6.8 / 10 · 3,315
- Companies
- MTM Enterprises, CBS, BBC Two, Me-TV, New Video Group, Nick at Nite, Nickelodeon Network, Shout! Factory, Viacom
- Release dates
- US September 9, 1974
- GB November 19, 1974
- BE August 31, 1975
- IE November 1, 1975
- AU September 28, 2010