That Old Feeling
by Carl Reiner
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Actor: Bette Midler, David Rasche, Dennis Farina, Gail O'Grady, Paula MarshallDirector: Carl Reiner
Brand: Universal
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Original Language), Dolby Digital 5.1; Spanish (Original Language), Dolby Digital 2.0 Surround; English (Subtitled); Spanish (Subtitled); French (Dubbed), Dolby Digital 2.0 Surround
Format: Anamorphic, Closed-captioned, Color, DVD-Video, NTSC, Widescreen
Picture Format: Anamorphic Widescreen, 1.85:1
Running Time: 106 minutes
DVD Release Date: 1998-04-28
Audience Rating: PG-13 (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Studio: Universal Studios
Movie Reviews of That Old Feeling
Movie Review: THERE NEED TO BE MORE MOVIES LIKE THIS ONE!
Summary: 5 Stars
I'm still trying to figure out how Bette Midler and Dennis Farina pulled off this movie. They are TOO NATURAL! Did they act this movie, or did they live it? THEY ARE TOO NATURAL!
Movie starts off as a takeoff of the 1996 movie "Everyone Says I Love You" where lead actor Edward Norton puts an engagement ring in girlfriend Drew Barrymore's dessert in a surprise proposal, she swallows it without realizing it and after a scene in the restaurant where she tries to bring it back up, they end up in the GI Lab at the hospital where the ring shows up on X-ray film digested into her intestine! In "That Old Feeling," second lead Jamie Denton puts an engagment ring in girlfriend Paula Marshall's dessert in the same surprise proposal, but when a waiter pops the cork out of a champagne bottle at the next table, her startlement causes her to choke on the ring, which necessitates a waiter rushing over to give her the Heimlich Maneuver, sending the ring and dessert she'd swallowed out of her mouth and into Denton's nose! She naturally accepts his proposal, but warns him against inviting her parents to their wedding; divorced fourteen years and happily married to two other people, they hate each other with a nuclear capacity! Well, after that funny opener, Denton invites them, anyway, and the movie gets funny ridiculous as Midler and Farina blow up at the reception, forcing Marshall, a stuffed shirt next to them, to put them in the parking lot to cool off, where fourteen years of pentup rage becomes into fourteen years of expressed lust! Nowhere for them to go from there but together oblivious to both their spouses! Problem is, Marshall's new husband Denton is running for political office and does not need a scandal, forcing her to have to find her runaway parents alone before their adultery is found out.
Then there is the obnoxious papparazzi played by Danny Nucci that Denton had hired to photograph the wedding, unaware that Midler, whose character of Lilly is an actress, hated him, as he had taken a fat photo of her that she was still trying to live down; in fact, Marshall had had him carried bodily out of the reception! A reluctant alliance ensues as she then has to beg streetsmart photographer Nucci who she thinks a loser and an intruder on people's special moments and who's still nosing around looking for dirt the morning after her wedding to help her find her runaway parents in an odyssy of discovery wherein she learns he's not the loser she'd thought him, she'd had no fun and worst still, she'd just married a man she didn't know with who she wasn't about to have any.
This is the movie I watch whenever I'm in a bad mood and need a laugh and a reality check. Ain't no getting over that old feeling and things aren't always what they seem. Midler, and Farina as her writer ex-husband Dan, are outrageous in their rediscovery of each other trying to stay one step ahead of Nucci, who to their own disbelief found them the first place he looked and taught daughter Marshall so different from the three of them in outlook that she knew nothing about nothing. Carl Reiner delivers the humor and point of view in this comedy romp and magnum opus in my opinion.
Summary of That Old Feeling
Lily is a temperamental movie diva who must make nice with her ex-husband dan just long enought to make it through the wedding of their only daughter. Everyone knows they hate each other so no ones more surprised than they when a knock-down-drag-out fight sparks that old feeling and they head off for a fling. Studio: Uni Dist Corp. (mca) Release Date: 01/06/2004 Starring: Bette Midler Paula Marshall Run time: 105 minutes Rating: Pg13 Director: Carl ReinerCarl Reiner made this enjoyable romantic farce about a divorced couple who commence an affair at their daughter's wedding. Reiner lets the idea bounce around the story's setting and characters so that the full comic effect of the illicit relationship can be felt more chaotically, building on its own irony. Bette Midler and Dennis Farina are quite believable and likable as the not-so-estranged-anymore couple, and Paula Marshall is very good as their exasperated daughter. Not a masterpiece, but one of Reiner's best films in years, with a distinctively European flavor to the comedy. The DVD release has a widescreen presentation, production notes, cast and crew bios, theatrical trailer, Dolby sound, optional Spanish and French soundtracks, and optional Spanish subtitles. --Tom Keogh
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