I saw this Paramount flick quite a few times, back when I was a projectionist just out of high school at the local art movie house, (this was circa 1982). I remember it being a mixture of dry documentary stuff and wonderful musical bits. Of the docu part I remember a scene where they hook a plant up to electrodes and measure it's sensitivity while they chop a head of lettuce in front of it (the plant freaks out on the machine's readout). I also remember a cool time lapse sequence with flowers blooming while they play "Here Come's The Sun". And the bits with Stevie Wonder wondering through a field of flowers was cool (and comical, as there was nothing for him to bump into). I've searched for years for this on video but I'm sure it's held up in musical right's limbo (that and the fact that no one's ever heard of it).

I saw this movie with my wife many years ago in a small theater in Baltimore, Maryland, after hearing the great soundtrack. I have tried unsuccessfully to purchase/sees any copy of it via the producer, distributor to no avail. Other viewers/fans unite! contact me.

It should be a crime that Police Academy had over 3 sequels and I lost track of the number of Lethal Weapons after they lost steam with the second installment, and yet the Sidney Poitier-Bill Cosby comedy pairings are not yet available on DVD and a Stevie Wonder musically driven project seems to have vanished from the earth. I just completed a power point on the life and contributions of the man born Steveland Morris. In an otherwise saccharin report, I will have one sidebar in which I explain my disconcert with the burying of a project that Mr. Wonder was so heavily involved with. If you ever get the opportunity to see this film, you are in store for a treat as it is a hard to find attraction. Although, I haven't had the opportunity to view this film, given the soundtrack and the non-threatening subject matter one can predict that it is worth a look.

The Secret Life of Plants is worth viewing, if only because it is so hard to come across it. It originally appeared in theatres in the USA for about two weeks (and then only in "artsy" theatres), and reappeared once for a week several years later. It is not currently available on video.The story is a documentary of research that shows fairly conclusively that plants are actually aware of what goes on around them, even miles away. It is somewhat humorous in the methods it uses to prove the secret life of plants, but thought-provoking in the conclusions it arrives at. The most wonderful thing about the film is the soundtrack. This is original music composed by Stevie Wonder. There is even a scene in the film of Stevie singing one of his songs in a boat on a river. This scene is very moving, as Stevie is blind and yet able to know where he is going. The scene is the climax to the movie, and metaphoric as to what has been presented about plants, that although they don't seem to have senses as human beings and animals do, they are quite well aware of what is going on around them and where they fit into this in the evolutionary process.