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Betsys Wedding
»rank: 19029
Chroniques et points de vue:From :Alan Alda wrote, directed, and starred in this lightweight comedy about a wedding and the havoc it causes in one family. Dad (Alda) wants it big and splashy; Betsy (Molly Ringwald), the one who's actually getting married, wants something small and personal (and is even considering eloping). As the momentum shifts back and forth between lavish and intimate, other comic tussles are played out in the background--such as how Dad is going to pay for all this. The best moments belong to the odd couple of Ally ...
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Four Seasons (1981)
»rank: 3737
Chroniques et points de vue:From :Actually, this comedy is one of the more enjoyable films to examine midlife crisis in the 1980s. Written and directed by Alan Alda, it examines the effects of middle age on a group of married couples who are longtime friends. Each season they go away on a vacation together, but the dynamic gets skewed when one of the men dumps his wife for a younger woman. Though some may find the characters' self-satisfaction and upscale neuroses a shade cloying, they are more than matched by Alda's solid, ...
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Sweet Liberty
»rank: 38324
Chroniques et points de vue:From :Alan Alda wrote, directed, and starred in this comic misfire, which, given the people involved, never tickles the way it should. Alda plays a writer whose novel has been bought by Hollywood, and the movie company is coming to the college town where he teaches to film it. There's certainly amusement to be had from Michael Caine as a hopelessly self-involved movie star who assumes that all women want him, and from Bob Hoskins as the screenwriter who knows just what a hack he is. Even Michelle ...
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M*A*S*H: Goodbye, Farewell, And Amen
»rank: 38324
Chroniques et points de vue:From :Alan Alda wrote, directed, and starred in this comic misfire, which, given the people involved, never tickles the way it should. Alda plays a writer whose novel has been bought by Hollywood, and the movie company is coming to the college town where he teaches to film it. There's certainly amusement to be had from Michael Caine as a hopelessly self-involved movie star who assumes that all women want him, and from Bob Hoskins as the screenwriter who knows just what a hack he is. Even Michelle ...
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