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...Michaels, Lee Thomson makes Suite Dreams at least somewhat endurable. Michaels believes he's being given a call girl by his brother Harry (Chris Winn) for a present, but instead gets caught in the typical "girl-in-the-bed, wife-knocking-on-the-door" scenario. Thomsen's natural comic delivery and sustained energy save the scene and much of the rest of the production...
That joke is the idea of a man who thinks he is a dog. During a North woods blizzard, jealous Reggie Shand (Christopher Lloyd) literally left his infant brother Robert to the wolves. Now, 30 years later, Penny (Amy Steel), a pretty young scientist, discovers "Bobo" (Mandel), whom the wolves have raised as one of their own. She returns Bobo to the Shand household, thwarting Reggie's plan to appropriate his brother's inheritance, now that he has squandered his own. Penny spends the rest of the movie trying to teach Bobo to act like a person, while Reggie tries...
There is not much to be said for the other performances, since the other characters are all types, one-note foils for Mandel to play off of. Besides the aforementioned Evil Brother and Idealistic Scientist, there is the Boozing Wife, the Senile Cat Lady, the Crusty Backwoodsman, the Angry Neighbor, the Venal Lawyer, and the Stuck-up In-laws. Walk is basically Mandel's showpiece, and no one is allowed to upstage...
Vigna started to get serious about playing tennis when she was 12. A year later, she beat her older brother...
Shapiro, who has Canadian and U.S. dualcitizenship, attended McGill College and aftergraduating in 1956 ran a Chinese restaurant withhis twin brother Bernard, who later received adegree from Harvard's Graduate School ofEducation...