So they just made a movie of the stage play that was based on the movie. This is the original version, with Gene Wilder (always curiously hilarious) and the late GREAT Zero Mostel.
Unbelievably great. In my humble opinion, this is Newman's best work, and James Mason is fantastic. Add a Mamet script and Lumet direction, and this is one of my top 10. Easy.
Per Flixster's writeup: "In the near future, where corporations screen their employees based on their genetic makeup"? Tell me about it, and it ain't so "futuristic" as it seems. Why, if I didn't fake being a four foot tall druid with a growth on my neck, MySpace would have NEVER hired me.
Not interested in this one, as the 2006 one, the Lawrence Olivier one, and the A & E Miniseries one just about gave me my fill of prissy Bennetts and pouty Darcy's, but all to good effect.
Hey. The Flixter review just ruined it by saying Bambi's mother dies. Oh well. May as well ruin the rest of it: they take Old Yeller out back and shoot him.
It's got Breckin Meyer, Whoopie Goldberg, and Cuba Gooding, and the intent is to make it FUNNIER than the *somewhat* amusing Mad Mad Mad World. I don't think it's gonna happen, and to PROVE it, I'll simply refuse to see it. Or believe that it was even made in the first place.