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Kate Gunzinger (Clayburgh), a Chicago math professor, is at a crossroads in her professional and personal life. Does she accept a more prestigious position in New York and leave her amiable goof of a lover (Charles Grodin)? Does she commit herself to a charmingly direct ex-baseball player (Michael Douglas)? Both men try to help her decide, but it's her turn. Does she go left, right or back to Square 1? Curiously, the movie sees Kate not so much at a turning point as jogging on a treadmill where you meet the nicest people. For this reason...
...series about the Louds, An American Family, Brooks has staged his own confrontation between show-biz folk and so-called real people. In Real Life, the comedian plays himself, an entertainer who is making a documentary about a typical American family, the Yeagers of Phoenix (played by Charles Grodin and Frances Lee McCain). But Brooks takes An American Family one step further: he records not only the Yeagers' daily activities but also his own. In other words, Real
...suit may be a bit clammy, but Farrah Fawcett-Majors is willing to take the plunge. She always was the athletic Angel, and now Majors is getting to do all her own stunt work for her latest film, Sunburn. As Model Ellie Morgan, hired to help Private Eye Charles Grodin investigate an insurance swindle in Acapulco, she steers a car at breakneck speed through a bullring and fights off a gang of thugs under water. During the filming, stunt men got their signals crossed and pulled Majors beneath the surface before she had secured her breathing tube, nearly drowning...
...only dignity in the film comes from Ellen Burstyn, who skillfully recreates her stage role. Playing the part originated by Charles Grodin, Alda gives a surprisingly weak performance: his usual warmth is vitiated by too many shrill farcical tantrums. Still, it's hard to blame an actor for this debacle. The only way to win playing Same Time, Next Year is to refuse to play...
...Please Don 't Eat the Daisies. Unfortunately, Burnett doesn't get any help from Director Robert Day. His idea of high drama is to end a scene with a close-up of characters getting up from a couch. The only animated figure on-screen is Charles Grodin, playing Burnett's husband: he charges through the movie in a quite understandable state of panic...