Word: ende
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...lease, signed by the restaurant and the University, has an escape clause that would allow an end to the agreement if Polcari's is not granted a liquor license. Community oppostion has held up the license process so far. That opposition is "our one hope of staying where we are," Donovan said...
THIS IS NOT A MOVIE for the hypercritical. The sloppiness of Arthur Hiller's direction becomes apparent at the end, when you can look back and survey the ruins he's made of a basically funny idea. If little inconsistencies cause you to cringe-the same shot repeated several times in the course of a car chase, or subplots that never get resolved- The In-Laws may bring on a seizure...
Arkin never holds up his end of the comedy, and at several points he lets it fall with a thud on the audience's feet. The screenplay calls for him to respond continuously to Falk's antics with a series of outraged quips and grimaces, but instead of playing a genuinely angry man or countering Falk's lunacy with his own, Arkin is stone-faced. At one point he literally falls into a stupor...
...little of the former's vulgarity or the latter's self-indulgence. The best jokes center on Falk's character, and the audience remains uncertain about his qualifications-whether he's really a CIA agent or just a loon who thinks he's one-until the movie's end...
Earlier this year, Hamlin announced he would retire as producing director of the Loeb at the end of the school year...