The tush scene alone is worth the price of admission.
When New York attorney Gordon Hocheiser meets Louise Callan, the girl of his dreams, he schemes to eliminate his aging, senile mother, even though he promised his late father that he'd always take care of her. He fears that his batty mom's eccentricities will shortly lead to Louise's departure.
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Classical in form, comic, spare and intimate.
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- gravecomic
- sparerichly built
- intimateepic
- rawmeticulous
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- talisencrwon TMDB · Jul 20168/10
I definitely would have tightened the slack pace of this--it seems perhaps 15 or 20 minutes too long, and really lags in spots--but it has some really excellent ideas and, in its basic underlying tenet of adult siblings trying to take care of their elderly parents, yet at the same time having fulfilling lives of their own, remains unfortunately very timely. I'm NOT a George Segal fan in the slightest (in both his previous roles in 'Ship of Fools' and 'Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf', he seems to think that simply by screaming at someone, that it inherently means 'range' and 'intensity'), but his work here is solid and he makes you care about his character's plight enough to actually empathize with his situation and root for him as a result. Solid work--and director Carl's son Rob is absolutely hilarious in a rare, pre-'All in the Family' performance. Good stuff here--contemporary PC-awareness notwithstanding, of course... ;)
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Cast
- George SegalGordon Hocheiser
- Ruth GordonMrs. Hocheiser
- Ron LeibmanSidney Hocheiser
- Trish Van DevereLouise Callan
- Barnard HughesColonel Hendricks
- Vincent GardeniaCoach Williams
- Rae AllenGladys Hocheiser
- Paul SorvinoOwner of Gus & Grace's Home
- William LeMassenaJudge
- Michael McGuireArmy Lawyer
Crew
- Carl ReinerDirector
- Robert KlaneScreenplay
- Robert KlaneNovel
- Jack PriestleyDirector of Photography
- Jack ElliottOriginal Music Composer
- Chic CiccoliniEditor
- Bud MolinEditor
- Marvin WorthProducer
- Jerry TokofskyProducer
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