Jack Lemmon, Jennifer Edwards, Julie Andrews, Robert Loggia, Sally Kellerman

This film was something of a movie stunt: writer-director Blake Edwards cast his friends and family, gave them a structure, then had them improvise the scenes before he put them into a script. The res...( read more  read more... )ult is so amazingly flat that you'll be astonished that anyone would think they were actually doing something interesting. The plot centers on a writer (Jack Lemmon) who, in his anxiety about the onset of his 60th birthday, doesn't notice that his singer-wife (Julie Andrews) is going through a crisis of her own: a throat ailment that may be cancer. The cast, which includes both Edwards's and Lemmon's kids, flutters around them searching for a way to kick-start the plot, but we're left to watch Lemmon twittering about in the midst of a very late midlife crisis. --Marshall Fine

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PG-13, 102 min.

Directed by: Blake Edwards

Release Date: September 26, 1986

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DVD Release Date: March 14, 2000

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  • November 9, 2006
    ååh! har så dødslyst å se denne!
  • October 6, 2006
    a great movie based on family problems.
  • October 3, 2006
    god I love that movie, it made my cry!

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