This slight comedy is worthwhile only for the dazzling performance of Peter O'Toole as a drunken matinée idol, hamming it up to the high heavens.
You can tell O'Toole is having a ball, and I wonder how much acting was really even going on here -- I could easily conceive of O'Toole being just like this character in real life.
There's almost nothing else worth remarking on. The movie isn't bad, it's just sort of THERE.
Mark Linn-Baker is likable enough in a schlubby kind of way, much as he was in his 80s sitcom "Perfect Strangers." Lainie Kazan also has some pizazz as a Jewish broad. Otherwise, I don't even remember much about the film, except that Peter O'Toole at one point comes swinging into a room on a chandelier.
Grade: C+
You can tell O'Toole is having a ball, and I wonder how much acting was really even going on here -- I could easily conceive of O'Toole being just like this character in real life.
There's almost nothing else worth remarking on. The movie isn't bad, it's just sort of THERE.
Mark Linn-Baker is likable enough in a schlubby kind of way, much as he was in his 80s sitcom "Perfect Strangers." Lainie Kazan also has some pizazz as a Jewish broad. Otherwise, I don't even remember much about the film, except that Peter O'Toole at one point comes swinging into a room on a chandelier.
Grade: C+