Warner Bros. | Release Date: September 25, 1981 CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
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It's obviously a dangerously stretched premise, but writer-director Andrew Bergman keeps the plot rolling so fast you don't really mind. Bergman, who wrote "The InLaws" and "Blazing Saddles," mixes his comic punches well, from low slapstick to English-major jokes to Jewish social satire. [12 Oct 1981, p.99A]
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There are potentially funny scenes, but Bergman doesn't know how to give timing and polish to his own jokes.