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Coupe de Ville (1990)

Director: Joe Roth

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From Time Out Film Guide

Roth's low-budget comedy bottles sibling rivalry inside a vintage Cadillac on a cross-country journey, shakes it up, fuels on '60s rock, quarrels and caring, and proves to be a sweetheart of a film. Three dissimilar brothers - a bully in uniform (Stern), a dreamer (Gross) and a teenage rebel (Dempsey) - are directed by their father (Arkin) to deliver the car intact and without a scratch for their mother's birthday. The assignment proves tricky, but along the way the boys learn about co-existence and family loyalty, which was dad's idea in the first place. Nothing spectacularly original about the plot, but the playing throughout is so juicy and the writing so idiosyncratic that it feels like hot news. Fans of major chromium and the white-wall tyre will go through hell with the title vehicle.

Author: BC 0000-00-00 00:00:00

Time Out Film Guide

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  • Ishroon said...
    Posted on Oct 13 2007 23:05 I had seen the movie long back, and infact it was my younger brother,who made me watch it and i absolutely enjoyed it, what a sweet and simple movie, sure there have been umpteen of movies on family loyalty and co existence but this one takes the cake for being down rite simple, and presenting 3 men of entirely different from each other is every aspect, nature,job,life style and age. And its brilliant how simply, a road trip, teaches them the bigger picture of life and family love and unlike the usuall movies, this one doesnt show a huge sacrifice or an overnite upheaval, its a 3 day , 2 nite drive, that explores and shows eveyrthing in clear lite for each of them and that too hilariously. watch it atleast once.
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Cast & crew

Director: Joe Roth

Producer: Larry Brezner, Paul Schiff

Cast: Patrick Dempsey, Arye Gross, Daniel Stern, Annabeth Gish, Rita Taggart, Joseph Bologna, Alan Arkin, James Gammon full cast

Genre(s): Comedy

Duration: 99 mins


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