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Tell Me a Riddle (1981)

Director: Lee Grant

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From Time Out Film Guide

An elderly Midwestern couple take off across America for a last visit to their children (and aghast confrontation with dropout San Francisco). They are Russian-Jewish, which naturally means that every other image conjures a pogrom-haunted memory. And just to open the taps on the already gushing sentimentality, she (Kedrova at her most winsome) is dying of cancer. Douglas, thank God, is at least agreeably tart.

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Cast & crew

Director: Lee Grant

Producer: Mindy Affrime, Rachel Lyon, Susan O'Connell

Cast: Melvyn Douglas, Lila Kedrova, Brooke Adams, Lili Valenty, Dolores Dorn, Ron Harris, Zalman King full cast

Duration: 90 mins


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