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Bookmark this pageFoul Play (1978)
Director: Colin Higgins
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From Time Out Film Guide
A big budget, San Francisco-set comedy thriller, with Goldie Hawn playing self-contained kook Gloria Mundy. A significant name, since the deliberately ridiculous plot involves an attempt to murder the pontiff. (Or is it because Hawn's a little too well-worn in this kind of role, sic transit Gloria Mundy?) Unsatisfactory as a whole, the film is hilarious and tense in bits. For while writer/director Higgins uses almost every stock thriller device - sinister dwarf, albino, scarfaced man, moving shower curtain, disappearing corpses, a chase, an escape or two, even the identical twin wheeze - he approaches this semi-parody with more zest and originality than is common, and careers from farce to thrills before you can say 'Spot the hommage'.Author: JS
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- Karen S said...
- Posted on Sep 05 2008 23:00 Uears since I saw this but laughed like a drain at the ridiculous and classic antics. Give it a go - Goldie Hawn at her best.
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Cast & crew
Director: Colin Higgins
Producer: Thomas L Miller, Edward K Milkis
Cast: Goldie Hawn, Chevy Chase, Burgess Meredith, Rachel Roberts, Eugene Roche, Dudley Moore, Brian Dennehy, Marc Lawrence full cast
Genre(s): Comedy
Duration: 116 mins
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