Derek Winnert

Posts Tagged "midlife crisis"

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Middle Age Crazy *** (1980, Bruce Dern, Ann-Margret, Graham Jarvis, Deborah Wakeham, Eric Christmas, Helen Hughes, Geoffrey Bowes) – Classic Movie Review 10,683

Well is 40 a dangerous age? Director John Trent’s 1980 Canadian midlife crisis, sex comedy drama Middle Age Crazy thinks so. Successful married businessman Bruce Dern becomes neurotic when he crosses the dateline to middle […]

Dec, 19

Hoffman *** (1970, Peter Sellers, Sinéad Cusack, Jeremy Bulloch) – Classic Movie Review 8548

Director Alvin Rakoff’s 1970 British comedy Hoffman stars Peter Sellers as lonely office worker Benjamin Hoffman (Sellers), who is obsessed with the about-to-wed typist Janet Smith (Sinéad Cusack) and blackmails her into spending the week with […]

Jun, 04

She’s Having a Baby ** (1988, Kevin Bacon, Elizabeth McGovern, Alec Baldwin) – Classic Movie Review 7985

Writer-director John Hughes’s blandly amusing 1988 comedy She’s Having a Baby stars Kevin Bacon as the newlywed having second thoughts about his marriage to Elizabeth McGovern and forthcoming fatherhood. The pleasing stars do their best […]

Jan, 06

Brad’s Status **** (2017, Ben Stiller, Austin Abrams, Jenna Fischer, Michael Sheen) – Movie Review

Excellent – thoughtful and amusing, with a tremendous, clever and witty screenplay, and Ben Stiller great. Writer-director Mike White’s charming 2017 comedy drama is absolutely excellent, with a role as an under-achieving middle-ager that fits […]

Jan, 09

Last of the Red Hot Lovers *** (1972, Alan Arkin, Sally Kellerman, Paula Prentiss, Renée Taylor) – Classic Movie Review 4662

Director Gene Sacks’s 1972 comedy of adultery stars some of the Seventies funniest movie people, who help raise a lot of laughter in this jolly, often very amusing film of Neil Simon’s play. Alan Arkin […]

Nov, 18

Wonder Boys ****½ (2000, Michael Douglas, Tobey Maguire, Frances McDormand, Robert Downey Jr, Richard Thomas, Katie Holmes, Rip Torn, George Grizzard) – Classic Movie Review 199

Director Curtis Hanson’s rich and strange 2000 gem Wonder Boys is a brilliant, witty, splendidly jaundiced college black comedy, with a crackling, ultra-busy script by Steven Kloves based on the offbeat novel by Michael Chabon. […]

Aug, 28

American Beauty ***** (1999, Kevin Spacey, Annette Bening, Thora Birch, Wes Bentley, Mena Suvari, Chris Cooper, Allison Janney, Peter Gallagher) – Classic Movie Review 163

Kevin Spacey won the best actor Oscar for his stupendous performance as Lester Burnham, an American middle-class married man undergoing a middle-aged crisis, in the superb 1999 film American Beauty. Kevin Spacey won the best […]

Aug, 15

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