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What do you get when you team up Gene Wilder, 43, (Silver Streak, Stir Crazy) with Gilda Radner, 35, (Saturday Night Live) in a murder-mystery romance? Hanky Panky, that's what. In the film, due out next summer, Wilder witnesses a murder. He and Radner then hit the road for clues to the crime, with Freelance Villain Richard Widmark, 66, in hot pursuit. Along for the chase are the police, who-you guessed it-think Wilder is the murderer. Love blossoms between the two co-stars during the film, but not, it seems, during a ride aboard...
...TOWN by Thornton Wilder...
...fiery confrontations; all too rarely do they work together to create any overall unity or dramatic power. The vignettes show the shoddy sides of the villagers and their gossipy morality, but that's been done before. Time and again, Rimers seems to be retreading ground already broken by Thorton Wilder's Our Town...
...Gene Wilder, who writes, directs, and stars in one quarter of Sunday Lovers, comes closest to generating some interest, playing a young divorcee who struggles to defeat his monumental impotence. But Wilder proves once again that Mel Brooks' waste basket is not a sufficient creative source for a movie, or even part of one. The problem is that in the one-dimensional logic of Sunday Lovers, in order for Wilder's character to be impotent, he must also be a freak. In fact, we learn that after his last premature ejaculation he attempted suicide and was committed to a mental...
Kathleen Quinlan, whose acting stands out among the cast's mediocre performances, almost saves Wilder's skit with a sensitive portrayal of the woman who seems willing to reform the deviant. Again the script intervenes. Quinlan is married and loves her husband. Surprisel She was really just out for her own physical satisfaction...