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 (Subtitled); French (Subtitled); Spanish (Subtitled); English (Original Language)
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: Warning: Your Head May Explode!
Summary: 5 Stars
I am old enough to have seen this in the theater when it first came out. I have never been the same; it has had a huge effect on my life. After years of intense psychoanalysis, all I could come up with as an explanation was this: during my viewing of this film, all of my comedic neurons were firing so frequently, and so powerfully, that my brain simply could not handle the sensory overload of hilarity which had transpired. I could barely get up out of my seat and leave the theater. For weeks afterward, I could not focus on anything. I found myself weakened, enervated, depressed. My immune system had become compromised, and I caught frequent chest colds and coughs. I lost my job, and eventually, my family and friends. I converted to Judaism, and became a recluse. I took to wearing strange disguises and weird costumes in an attempt to blur my identity. For many years I spent my evenings and weekends in a vain attempt to locate a film as funny as Where's Poppa? Despite literally thousands of hours in screening rooms, film societies, obscure movie theaters and festivals, and after journeying through all the stages of home film technology, from Super 8 to VHS to laser disk to DVD, I have given up. No one will ever make a funnier movie than this.
It's so funny I almost wish I'd never seen it, oy, the troubles it's caused!
You know that horror movie Ringu, remade in US as The Ring? They watched a tape and then died. Same idea with that one in the Halloween series--was it 4??--where if you watched the pumpkin your head would explode? That's what this movie is like. Don't be surprised if your head, or maybe your chest, explodes or bursts into flames from the sheer, unadulterated, unmitigated hilarity.
Summary of Where's Poppa?
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 FineGeorge 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!
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