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HARRY AND TONTO is about as exciting as a belt of Geritol but it may be a sign that Hollywood has found a new special-interest group to exploit. The elderly are often the last minority that Americans get around to noticing, and until recently movie executives were no exception. But it seems the strange success of Harold and Maude, a spotty movie about a teenage boy in love with a septuagenarian woman, has revealed the market's potential...
HARRY AND TONTO...
...Harry moves again, with a couple of pieces of battered luggage and his pet tabby Tonto for company. He has plans to see his daughter in Chicago and an idea of perhaps settling down in California with his other son. The film tracks Harry on his transcontinental odyssey and watches with amusement as he slides into a decent compromise with...
...movie gets off to an awkward start and improves along with Harry as it goes West. Mazursky is a director (Bob and Carol and Ted and Alice, Blume in Love) adept at lancing the excesses and improbabilities of the American culture, but Harry and Tonto is gentler and more bemused than his previous work...
Harry sings old songs to Tonto and reminisces lovingly about his courting and the wonders of his marriage. Reality chips the sentimental patina, though. His children, the products of this blissful union, are the walking wounded. Harry's New York son has resigned himself to a bleak wife and two ungovernable kids. His California counterpart, played with ironic self-pity by Larry Hagman, blubbers like a brat for a loan from Dad and for the benefit of his reassuring presence (he can split the rent that way). The daughter in Chicago (Ellen Burstyn) has just...