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...LIFE, by Murray Schisgal (Luv), starring Lou Jacobi (Don't Drink the Water). A man in a park, apartment, business office...
...TIGER MAKES OUT. From the brittle material of his off-Broadway play, The Tiger, Murray Schisgal has fashioned a cinematic cornucopia filled with enough laughs to supply an entire season of TV comedies...
...TIGER MAKES OUT. From the brittle material of his off-Broadway play, The Tiger, Murray Schisgal has fashioned a cinematic cornucopia filled with enough laughs to supply an entire season of TV comedies...
...Tiger Makes Out is a comedy, but the jokes, and laughs, are small ones. Author Murray Schisgal (he wrote Luv) likes to stretch situations that are, as they say, "all too real" and draw smiles with the resulting absurdities. His favorite device is a rapid trade of cliches by people quite oblivious to their banality...
...know that The Tiger Makes Out is adapted from a one-act play by Schisgal called The Tiger, it's easy to understand why the film seems a succession of high points surrounded by a lot of filler. Those high points are good, though. They are touching in their way, but salty, not schmaltzy...