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Director: Alan Metter
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From Time Out Film Guide
Dangerfield trundles unstoppably through the movie like a benevolent steamroller. He's Thornton Melon, motormouth millionaire, who enrolls in college to watch over his downtrodden son. He has the money, he has the confidence but mostly he has the lines: no one else gets much of a look-in here. Unusual to find a campus comedy serving as an oh-if-only fantasy for the over-50s. Otherwise it's business as usual in this acceptable time-passer.Author: BBa
Cast & crew
Director: Alan Metter
Producer: Chuck Russell
Cast: Rodney Dangerfield, Sally Kellerman, Burt Young, Keith Gordon, Robert Downey Jr, Paxton Whitehead, Terry Farrell, M Emmett Walsh, Adrienne Barbeau, Ned Beatty, Kurt Vonnegut Jr full cast
Genre(s): Comedy
Duration: 97 mins
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