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 age, so he buys a sports car and trendy clothes, leaves his perfect wife Ann-Margret and takes up with younger football cheerleader (Deborah Wakeham).

The material in the screenplay by Carl Kleinschmitt, based on a hit Jerry Lee Lewis song by Sonny Throckmorton, is a bit conventional and sentimental. But it is played to the hilt by the two stars, and provides an entertaining, thought-provoking experience.

The main cast are Bruce Dern, Ann-Margret, Graham Jarvis, Deborah Wakeham, Eric Christmas, Helen Hughes, and Geoffrey Bowes.

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