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List Price: $14.98 Our Price: $12.99 You Save: $1.99 Features • Anamorphic • Closed-captioned • Color • Dubbed • DVD-Video • Full Screen • Subtitled • Widescreen • NTSC In Theaters : October, 1988 DVD Release : 01 April, 2003 |
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| ♥♥♥♥♥ | A "Father and Son" Story that all fathers and sons should see |
| What do you get when the 2 wittiest and most intelligent comedians in the world of Jewish humor of the late 20th century not only costar in, but co-produce a movie? Answer: You get a serious comedy (or dramady: part comedy, part drama) that holds your attention for it's entire length. In this MGM gem of 1988 brilliantly directed by Henry (Fonzie) Winkler, Billy Crystal and the late Alan King give probably the best performances of their lives that does just that. Crystal is Abbie Polin MD, probably the most successful and best loved by his patients heart surgeon to ever serve the New York City Hospital System. While performing a routine procedure on 1 of said adoring admirers, he suffers a mild heart attack himself, making everyone's favorite doctor a patient in his own hospital. As part of his recovery, his co surgeon and love of his life Lisa McConnell (played by one time American Dreamer: Jobeth Williams) recommends he goes out to Hollywood to patch things up with his estranged dad Abe (King) who is the King of the movie extras. Abe is equally loved by coworkers and big stars alike (watch for Sean Connery in his costume for the Presidio in a brief scene), but he never had a starring role, and his career always came before his family. At first you think these 2 will walk briefly in and out of each others lives, until Abbie diagnoses Abe's strange headaches and memorizing speeches of yesteryear as a Cerebral Aneurysm. Of all things to reunite the spark of father and son love, but it does the job. At any rate, Lisa flies out to meet Abe, Abbie plays movie agent to get Abe a speaking part, and then..............Well I'm sure you what goes in the blank. But suffice it to say, a very touching film we can all learn from. The best thing of all is though Abe gets the last word in, it IS a funny one. Definitely worth buying before MGM decides to pull it put of print. By the way, the Amazon description says "Anamorphic Widescreen", it is actually double sided (full screen copy on side B). Alan King, my copy of this disc dedicated to your memory. We hope you will still make us laugh at the Carnegie Hall in the sky. | |
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