Where's Poppa?
by Carl Reiner
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Actor: Barnard Hughes, George Segal, Ron Leibman, Ruth Gordon, Trish Van DevereDirector: Carl Reiner
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Original Language); English (Subtitled); French (Subtitled); Spanish (Subtitled)
Format: Closed-captioned, Color, DVD-Video, NTSC, Subtitled, Widescreen
Picture Format: 1.85:1
Running Time: 84 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2002-12-03
Audience Rating: R (Restricted)
Studio: MGM (Video & DVD)
Movie Reviews of Where's Poppa?
Movie Review: How things change over the years
Summary: 3 Stars
When I first saw this movie many years ago, I thought it was the funniest movie I had ever seen. How one's perceptions change with age. Two friends and I were discussing the current trends in movies and I told them about Where's Poppa and how funny it was, so we decided to have dinner and a movie together. We are all over fifty and found the movie to be embarrassing and not funny at all. We could all empathize with the son who was stuck with an aging mother but could not condone his way of deealing with her.We found the scene where the cab driver passes the black woman to pick up the guy in the gorrilla suit to be blatantly racist and fortunately it would not be allowed today. The scenes between George Segal and Tricia Van Devere are inane. It was a waste of money.
Summary of Where's Poppa?
George Segal ( Just Shoot Me ) and Ruth Gordon (Harold and Maude) give the funniest performances of their careers in this outrageous comedy that 'stomps gleefully on the idea of devotion to Mom above all (Newsweek)! Featuring some of the boldest gags ever to hit the screen, Where's Poppa? is a riotously funny film (The New York Times)! Attorney Gordon Hocheiser isa man with a problemhis mother. Gordon promised his late father that he d take care of her, but when Gordon finally meets the girl of his dreams, his batty, eccentric mother is intent on turning his dreams into one huge nightmare. Soon Gordon becomes obsessed with getting rid of her before she gets rid of his girlfriend!Carl Reiner directed this wild exercise in bad taste, an explosion of dark comedy starring George Segal and Ruth Gordon. Segal is a beleaguered New York lawyer and mama's boy who still lives with his senile mother because he promised his late father he'd never put her in a home. So he spends his time alternating between work and trying to give his mother a heart attack so that he'll be free. That becomes more urgent when he falls for the nurse (Trish Van Devere) he hires to take care of his mother. Reiner and writer Robert Klane are equal-opportunity offenders, with jokes about rape, racism, and caca (yes, caca). But if you're in the right mood, it can make you howl with laughter. --Marshall Fine
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