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| National Broadcasting Company (NBC) | Release Date: October 1, 1993 |
Starring:
Anthony Higgins, Bob Balaban, Dianne Brill, Gabrielle Anwar, Isaac Mizrahi, Michael J. Fox, Michael Tucker, Patrick Breen, Simon Jones, Udo Kier
Summary:
[Also known as "The Concierge"] Doug's (Michael J. Fox) a concierge at a luxury hotel on Manhattan. He saves all his tips towards his plan for a hotel. A potential investor seduces the girl Doug loves (Gabrielle Anwar) with false promises of leaving his wife. Doug's dilemma: hotel project or girl?
Still, it's the bits and pieces of this movie, the eccentric asides, that rescue it-when they work. [1 Oct 1993, p.L]
THIS may be movie-watching at its least painful. The characters are likable but flat, the script is snappy but shallow, the story is cute, the scenery pretty and the stars fetching. No brain food here. [1 Oct 1993, p.8EV]
In between his successful Back II the Futures and his stint on Spin City, Fox's career was in freefall with this film proving the point. Although he is as charismatic as ever, it's not enough for the viewer to actually sympathise with Fox's character, or even lift this poor comedy enough to get a laugh.
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It took four screenwriters to turn a potent premise into mush. There’s some compensation in a solid supporting cast, especially Fyvush Finkel of TV’s Picket Fences as the world’s oldest bellboy. But director Barry Sonnenfeld shows little of the wicked spirit he brought to The Addams Family.
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