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Rated: PG-13 (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Staring: John Candy , Richard Crenna , Rip Torn , Karen Austin , Kerri Green
Director: Carl Reiner
John Candy's first leading role was in this 1985 film by Carl Reiner, in which the comic actor played a stressed-out air traffic controller who takes his family on a Florida vacation and has to deal with arrogant, rich jerks. Candy is good in what is almost a straight part (albeit with some jokes), and Reiner keeps the tone in check so his star has an opportunity to show more than one dimension. --Tom Keogh

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That Old Feeling [VHS]

Rated: PG-13 (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Staring: Bette Midler , Dennis Farina , Paula Marshall , Gail O'Grady , David Rasche
Director: Carl Reiner
Carl Reiner made this enjoyable romantic farce about a divorced couple who commence an affair at their daughter's wedding. Reiner lets the idea bounce around the story's setting and characters so that the full comic effect of the illicit relationship can be felt more chaotically, building on its own irony. Bette Midler and Dennis Farina are quite believable and likable as the not-so-estranged-anymore couple, and Paula Marshall is very good as their exasperated daughter. Not a masterpiece, but one of Reiner's best films in years, with a distinctively European flavor to the comedy. The DVD release has a widescreen presentation, production notes, cast and crew bios, theatrical trailer, Dolby sound, optional Spanish and French soundtracks, and optional Spanish subtitles. --Tom Keogh

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Oh God [VHS]

Rated: PG (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Staring: John Denver , George Burns , Teri Garr , Donald Pleasence , Ralph Bellamy
Director: Carl Reiner
Carl Reiner directed this sweet comedy about the Man Upstairs visiting Earth in the form of a funny little guy (George Burns). John Denver is the good man chosen to be God's contact in the modern age--and like an Old Testament prophet, Denver's character pays the price by being ridiculed and faced with criminal charges. Denver is a warm presence, but the film is entirely in Burns's court. Reiner feeds him lines that come out of Burns' mouth like stage patter, and it's no wonder he got a huge career boost from this film in the winter of his life. Except for some courtroom stuff in the third act--where Reiner inadvertently cheapens the movie with editing tricks to suggest "miracles"--Oh, God! is just fine. (It's certainly better than its two perfunctory sequels, Oh God! Book II and Oh God! You Devil.) --Tom Keogh

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All of Me (1984) [VHS]

Rated: PG (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Staring: Steve Martin , Lily Tomlin , Victoria Tennant , Madolyn Smith Osborne , Richard Libertini
Director: Carl Reiner
Steve Martin takes his wild and crazy persona and splits it into a hilarious battle of the sexes within the same body. Ambitious attorney Roger Cobb is assigned to alter the will of ailing millionaire Edwina Cutwater (Lily Tomlin), who wishes to bequeath her estate to a healthy young woman (Victoria Tennant)--after Cutwater's guru transfers the old eccentric's soul to her healthy body. No one believes for a second it will actually work, until Ms. Cutwater awakens in Roger's body and he becomes, literally, a man possessed, fighting for control of himself. Martin delivers a hilariously animated performance as a body torn between two masters as it wrestles with itself in a spastic walk down a city street. Directed with comic aplomb by regular Martin collaborator Carl Reiner, All of Me combines the best of Martin's self-scripted films--anarchic moments of inspired physical comedy--with a solid (if somewhat silly) narrative holding the scenes together. Screenwriter Phil Alden Robinson went on to script and direct Field of Dreams. --Sean Axmaker

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Sibling Rivalry [VHS]

Rated: PG-13 (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Staring: Kirstie Alley , Bill Pullman , Carrie Fisher , Jami Gertz , Scott Bakula
Director: Carl Reiner
Carl Reiner, who paired with Steve Martin in The Jerk, takes another rewarding gamble in Sibling Rivalry, matching comic actress Kirstie Alley with a screwball tale of mistaken identities, three sets of siblings, and a pesky corpse. Alley plays a neglected wife encouraged by her sister (Jami Gertz) to have a fling; when she does precisely that with a handsome stranger (Sam Elliott), he not only dies in bed but turns out to be a long-lost brother-in-law. Further complicating matters is a salesman (Bill Pullman) who thinks he inadvertently killed Elliott's character, plus a lot of doctor jokes (Carrie Fisher plays a bullying gynecologist married to a protologist) and a deadpan cop (Ed O'Neill). The screenplay's comic complications take a little too long to reach critical mass, but when they do, Reiner masterfully controls the essential screwball timing and Alley, Pullman, Gertz, and screen veterans John Randolph and Frances Sternhagen thoroughly deliver. --Tom Keogh

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The One and Only [VHS]

Rated: PG (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Staring: Henry Winkler , Kim Darby , Gene Saks , William Daniels , Harold Gould
Director: Carl Reiner

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Jerk [VHS]

Rated: R (Restricted)
Staring: Steve Martin , Bernadette Peters , Catlin Adams , Mabel King , Richard Ward
Director: Carl Reiner
Carl Reiner (Where's Poppa?) brought comic Steve Martin to the screen in this mostly funny 1979 movie about a relentlessly stupid but innocent man, whom we get to know from childhood (where it never occurred to him that he was white as he was raised by a family of black sharecroppers) to romance (where he doesn't quite know what to do with Bernadette Peters). Martin is game as the moron, and this is the kind of film with funny moments people still talk about. --Tom Keogh

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Bert Rigby You're a Fool [VHS]

Rated: R (Restricted)
Staring: Robert Lindsay , Robbie Coltrane , Cathryn Bradshaw , Jackie Gayle , Bruno Kirby
Director: Carl Reiner

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Summer School [VHS]

Rated: PG-13 (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Staring: Mark Harmon , Kirstie Alley , Robin Thomas , Patrick Labyorteaux , Courtney Thorne-Smith
Director: Carl Reiner
A weak, lazy comedy about an easygoing teacher (Mark Harmon, whose movie career never had the kind of trajectory that his TV work did) who is forced to teach--you guessed it--summer school. What's worse, he gets exactly the kind of kids you'd expect: the losers and slackers who are forced to make up the work they didn't complete during the year. He tries to duck work and let them fend for themselves. But in this mushy Carl Reiner film, the teacher offers some life lessons to his band of delinquents and--surprise, surprise--the kids impart a lesson or two to their teacher, as well. Harmon coasts through the film on his good looks, which are considerable. --Marshall Fine

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Where's Poppa [VHS]

Rated: R (Restricted)
Staring: George Segal , Ruth Gordon , Ron Leibman , Trish Van Devere , Barnard Hughes
Director: Carl Reiner
Carl Reiner directed this wild exercise in bad taste, an explosion of dark comedy starring George Segal and Ruth Gordon. Segal is a beleaguered New York lawyer and mama's boy who still lives with his senile mother because he promised his late father he'd never put her in a home. So he spends his time alternating between work and trying to give his mother a heart attack so that he'll be free. That becomes more urgent when he falls for the nurse (Trish Van Devere) he hires to take care of his mother. Reiner and writer Robert Klane are equal-opportunity offenders, with jokes about rape, racism, and caca (yes, caca). But if you're in the right mood, it can make you howl with laughter. --Marshall Fine

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