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6.7/10   74 votes
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Director:
Lamont Johnson
Writer:
April Smith (writer)
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Release Date:
14 May 1984 (USA) more
Genre:
Biography | Drama more
Awards:
Nominated for 3 Primetime Emmys. more
User Comments:
Some chuckles more

Cast

  (Cast overview, first billed only)

Jeff Goldblum ... Ernie Kovacs
Melody Anderson ... Edie Adams
Madolyn Smith Osborne ... Dorothy Kovacs
John Glover ... Pierre Lafitte

Cloris Leachman ... Mary Kovacs
Joseph Mascolo ... Richards
Jordan Charney ... Harry Ascot

Francis X. McCarthy ... Judge (as Frank McCarthy)
Lois De Banzie ... Mrs. Enke
Murphy Dunne ... Leon Lane

Steven M. Porter ... Rusty Valentine

Edie Adams ... Mae West
Fran Bennett ... Miss Deal
Weldon Boyce Bleiler ... Bum Detective
Bryan Englund ... Cab Driver
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Additional Details

Runtime:
100 min
Country:
USA
Language:
English
Color:
Color
Aspect Ratio:
1.33 : 1 more
Sound Mix:
Mono
Certification:
USA:PG

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Some chuckles, 13 October 2007
7/10
Author: T Y from United States

In the absence of being able to watch Ernie Kovacs episodes, I settled on this movie one night. As a kid I would watch Kovacs show with my parents approving in their loungers behind me, because they recognized him as a creative original (and my parents are super old-school!) The three of us would find plenty of things to chuckle about, as everyone; phonies, conformists, TV show hosts, simpering poets, a trio in gorillas masks; were all set up and mowed down for our enjoyment.

Ditto for this movie. While Goldblum may not be too much like Kovacs, there were scenes that made me laugh in exactly the same way Kovacs had. Kovacs loved a good put-on & absurdity was the unifying thread of his show. Kovacs search for his kids was the typical stuff of made for TV movies, but I still laugh over some scenes in this. The sequence where Kovacs is reviewing his contract and puts on pair of glasses to read the fine print, then another pair over those, then another pair over those, while playing it sincere is exactly the kind of screwy humor my family held in high respect.

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