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Movie Movie (1978)
Director: Stanley Donen
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From Time Out Film Guide
Donen takes us back to the days 'when the only four-letter word in movie houses was EXIT' - to quote George Burns' explanatory prologue, nervously tacked on to this pastiche double feature of the 1930s in case any thickheads didn't get the joke. It's a useful word to know, too, considering the dire script, the flat performances from George C Scott and entourage, and the pointlessness of the entire exercise. The concluding Busby Berkeley-esque 'Baxter's Beauties of 1933' at least homes in on its genre far more sharply and sympathetically than the opening boxing melodrama 'Dynamite Hands' (in b/w), which loses its focus in a welter of cheap jokes.Author: GB
Cast & crew
Director: Stanley Donen
Producer: Stanley Donen
Cast: George C Scott, Harry Hamlin, Rebecca York, Trish Van Devere, Eli Wallach, Barbara Harris, Barry Bostwick, Art Carney, Red Buttons, Jocelyn Brando full cast
Genre(s): Comedy
Duration: 106 mins
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