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Bookmark this pageFunny About Love (1990)
Director: Leonard Nimoy
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From Time Out Film Guide
As interminably cute as its title suggests, Nimoy's film strains for a sophisticated view of adult relationships, while in reality taking the director's obsession with babies to new depths. Wilder plays Duffy, a satirical cartoonist - so we're told, though on the evidence presented he seems no more than a rather pathetic chauvinist in mid-life crisis. Be that as it may, he can boast good taste in women. First, he woos the wonderful Christine Lahti in double quick time; then, when she has failed to reproduce and been put aside, he turns to the young, spunky Masterson. A stronger actor than Wilder - a cabbage patch doll of a man - might have persuaded us that he is more than a sentimental sexist. As it is, the movie drowns in a maudlin sea of sickly sentiment.Author: TCh
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- Posted on Nov 27 2007 18:50 Wilder tries to be different and has a few funny lines , but is done in by the totally unconvincing ending.
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Cast & crew
Director: Leonard Nimoy
Producer: Jon Avnet, Jordan Kerner
Cast: Gene Wilder, Christine Lahti, Mary Stuart Masterson, Robert Prosky, Stephen Tobolowsky, Anne Jackson, Susan Ruttan, David Margulies full cast
Genre(s): Comedy
Duration: 101 mins
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