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Bookmark this pageMixed Nuts (1994)
Director: Nora Ephron
Movie review
From Time Out Film Guide
Oh, dear. Anyone who didn't appreciate the polished sophistication of Sleepless in Seattle should be made to watch Ephron's third outing as writer and director...until they submit. This remake of a 1982 French farce, Le Père Noël est une Ordure! (d Jean-Marie Poiré, not distributed in the UK), is a disaster. Ephron's timing and sensitivity have deserted her, leaving behind only the sentimentality. It's Christmas Eve at Martin's suicide hotline service - Lifesavers - but it's the staff (Wilson, Kahn) who seem most desperately in need of help. Ephron pitches for zany, which means we have to endure a pregnant Lewis at her most hysterical, LaPaglia as a gun-toting Santa, Sandler as a ukulele-playing tee-shirt writer ('Save the Dolphins - that's one of mine'), a lovelorn transvestite and a serial killer, while the leads alternately scream and faint, as well they might.Author: TCh
Cast & crew
Director: Nora Ephron
Producer: Paul Junger Witt, Tony Thomas, Joseph Hartwick
Cast: Steve Martin, Rita Wilson, Madeline Kahn, Juliette Lewis, Anthony LaPaglia, Adam Sandler, Liev Schreiber, Rita Wilson, Rob Reiner full cast
Genre(s): Comedy
Duration: 97 mins
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