Ross On Wry

Rating: 7/10 (21 October 2009)

Once again I find myself watching in 2009 a film that is just over 30 years old - a UK daily newspaper is giving away one movie per day for fourteen days - which means that many of the satirical targets will have disappeared and been replaced by other satirical targets which may be being addressed in movies of today so that thirty years from now ... well, you get the picture. Personally I was glad to see the likes of Norman Fell, Murry Hamilton, William Daniels etc not to mention an uncredited Richard Dreyfus. Daniels and Hamilton were especially good Bancroft and Katherine Ross were excellent as was Dustin Hoffman after about three or four reels, in the opening reels he seemed to tilt away from the gaucheness required rather than toward it. Other than that it holds up well and entertained me.