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They settle temporarily on the body of a southern California corporate hot shot, Leo Farnsworth, who has just been poisoned by his paranoid wife (played by the zaftig Dyan Cannon) and her lover, Farnsworth's eager-to-please private secretary, (Charles Grodin, the lovable shiksachaser who woos and wins Cybil Shepard in The Heartbreak Kid). Farnsworth turns out to be a particularly loathsome tycoon as he alternately comes under attack from both his adulterous wife and scheming secretary and from enviornmental protection groups protesting his multinational's unsafe and exploitative practices...
...Angeles Rams quarterback (Beatty) who dies and comes back to life as an eccentric millionaire. The movie has everything going for it: big laughs, populist politics, billowy sequences set in heaven, a murder plot, a climactic Super Bowl game, a supporting cast of choice comic actors (Charles Grodin, Dyan Cannon, Jack Warden) and, best of all, a touching (but P.G.) romance between the hero and Co-Star Julie Christie, who communicate largely through passionate eye contact, the heat of which has not been felt since Clark Gable and Vivien Leigh met in Gone With the Wind. From beginning...
...performance as the movie's hero, Beatty has brought out the best in lis collaborators. May's work on the script is her wittiest since A New Leaf: she has spiked a sentimental story with misanthropic jokes about money, marriage and adultery that are not in the old film. Grodin and Cannon, who have May's sharpest lines, give impeccable, dry comic performances. Some of the humor?involving batty butlers and rough football players?is knockabout, but the gags never go on too long...
Unamusing Neurotics. The marital combatants are Mario Thomas and Charles Grodin, and the casus belli is their upward social mobility. He has become the headmaster of a fashionable Manhattan private school; she is still teaching in a public school in a slum. He is very pleased with their new high-rise apartment; she is so displeased that she has sent their antique furniture to their first apartment on the Lower East Side, in the neighborhood where they grew up. He is glumly preoccupied with getting and spending, she with gaminish stratagems designed to break through his fagade of indifference. None...
Perhaps the most powerful sign of how badly Gardner has miscalculated is the belief that a reconciliation between Thomas and Grodin constitutes a happy ending. In fact, their dismal marriage makes the best argument yet for rapid passage of no-fault divorce laws...