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...plot is straight out of P.G. Wodehouse. Arthur, the black sheep of a wealthy family, is a childish, irresponsible, alcoholic with-a-heart-of-gold. Steve Gordon, who wrote and directed the movie, had to give Arthur enough money so that even in these inflationary times he would be worth more money than he could spend. Seven hundred million dollars is the figure. The plot is a simple reworking of an age-old theme: rich young man is engaged to a woman he doesn't love, faces disinheritence if he fails to marry her. Meanwhile, finds first true love with...
...movie fails in its (fortunately rare) attempts at seriousness. When Moore sobers up, the movie loses its sparkle and falls flat. Gordon's writing talents end with the jokes--he lacks the necessary subtlety to convey real emotion. Minnelli. Moor and John Gielgud (brilliant as Arthur's paternal butler) utter lines to each other now and then that are supposed to mean things but actually don't, and the audience squirms in its collective seats and waits for Moore to go back on the sauce. When Gielgud has difficulties near the end, you want to feel...
...Gordon luckily seems to have realized that the serious stuff just doesn't click, and as soon as Gielgud is dispatched, Moore is back in the bottle again, right up until the decidely happy ending. The saved-by-the-bell wedding ending recalls The Graduate, except this is unequivocably happy. The Graduate rejected the Establishment, Arthur embraces it. Ban and Elaine rode off in a public bus, Arthur and Linda scoot off in a chauffeur-driven Rolls, gleefully content with their $700 million nest...
Leonard A. Gordon...
...said yesterday, adding "there's also a difference between being overcome by heat on a basketball court with a lot of people around, and being overcome by heat all alone in the middle of the river." The boathouse will stay closed "until the weather breaks," athletic department spokesman Brian Gordon said yesterday...