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Bookmark this pageCoupe de Ville (1990)
Director: Joe Roth
Movie review
From Time Out Film Guide
Roth's low-budget comedy bottles sibling rivalry inside a vintage Cadillac on a cross-country journey, shakes it up, fuels on '60s rock, quarrels and caring, and proves to be a sweetheart of a film. Three dissimilar brothers - a bully in uniform (Stern), a dreamer (Gross) and a teenage rebel (Dempsey) - are directed by their father (Arkin) to deliver the car intact and without a scratch for their mother's birthday. The assignment proves tricky, but along the way the boys learn about co-existence and family loyalty, which was dad's idea in the first place. Nothing spectacularly original about the plot, but the playing throughout is so juicy and the writing so idiosyncratic that it feels like hot news. Fans of major chromium and the white-wall tyre will go through hell with the title vehicle.Author: BC
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- Brenda said...
- Posted on Mar 12 2009 16:16 This is a classic movie. I have four sons, so this move touched me deeply. It was hilarious, moving and and a good moral to the story, I'm trying to find it on DVD
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Cast & crew
Director: Joe Roth
Producer: Larry Brezner, Paul Schiff
Cast: Patrick Dempsey, Arye Gross, Daniel Stern, Annabeth Gish, Rita Taggart, Joseph Bologna, Alan Arkin, James Gammon full cast
Genre(s): Comedy
Duration: 99 mins
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