For Richer, for Poorer [Father, Son and the Mistress] ** (1992, Jack Lemmon, Talia Shire, Jonathan Silverman, Joanna Gleason, Madeline Kahn) – Classic Movie Review 10,383

A contrived situation, a feeble script? Just call for comedy master Jack Lemmon to bail it out.

Director Jay Sandrich’s 1992 TV movie For Richer, for Poorer [Father, Son and the Mistress] stars Jack Lemmon, who makes a little silk purse out of a sow’s ear of a comedy. He squeezes every possible laugh out of his role as an eccentric, self-made millionaire businessman who bankrupts himself to teach his ungrateful family and complacent mistress (Joanna Gleason) a lesson.

But the plan backfires when his son (Jonathan Silverman) marries an heiress ever richer than dad.

It is expertly played by a very nice, ideal cast and it is and funny in places, with Lemmon and Silverman outstanding. The writer is Stan Daniels.

Also in the cast are Talia Shire, Madeline Kahn, George Wyner, Dakin Matthews, Stephen Caffrey, Hal Riddle and Charles Thomas Murphy.

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