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Director: Hal Ashby
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From Time Out Film Guide
Ashby's first film as director - produced by Norman Jewison, whose regular editor Ashby had been - this was coolly received when first released. Presumably its anarchic satire on the mores and assumptions of the American Way of Life, which range from Sidney Poitier movies to events like the spinal meningitis summer ball, were thought to be in bad taste. Like Leo the Last, the film deals with the problems of a man of property once he enters into human, rather than economic, relationships with his tenants. But whereas Boorman's film is a carefully constructed whole, from its colour scheme to its casting of Marcello Mastroianni in the lead, Ashby's film (like the later and much more successful The Last Detail) operates through the freewheeling juxtaposition of characters in unlikely situations. Worth a look.Author: PH
Cast & crew
Director: Hal Ashby
Producer: Norman Jewison
Cast: Beau Bridges, Pearl Bailey, Diana Sands, Louis Gossett, Douglas Grant, Melvin Stewart, Lee Grant, Susan Anspach full cast
Genre(s): Comedy
Duration: 110 mins
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