The Films of Arthur Hiller
Massacre at Sand Creek
The Careless Years
Miracle of the White Stallions
The Wheeler Dealers
The Americanization of Emily
Promise Her Anything
Penelope
Tobruk
The Tiger Makes Out
Popi
The Out of Towners
Love Story
Plaza Suite
The Hospital
Man of La Mancha
The Crazy World of Julius Vrooder
The Man in the Glass Booth
W.C. Fields and Me
Silver Streak (May 23/05)
Featuring the first onscreen collaboration between Gene Wilder and Richard Pryor, Silver Streak casts Wilder as book publisher George Caldwell - a harmless everyman who finds himself embroiled in a Hitchcockian plot revolving around a sinister villain (played by Patrick McGoohan). Along the way, George falls in love with said villain's assistant (played by Jill Clayburgh) and encounters a fast-talking thief named Grover (Pryor). Silver Streak is entertaining enough thanks primarily to Wilder's expectedly ingratiating performance, though the film is hurt by an unnecessarily overlong running time. This is compounded by the fact that it's not really funny enough to work as a comedy, nor is it exciting enough to be classified a thriller. Still, it's hard to deny the genuine chemistry between Wilder and Pryor, and the entire film might just be worth a look for the sequence in which Pryor teaches Wilder how to be black.
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The In-Laws
Nightwing
Making Love
Author! Author!
Romantic Comedy
The Lonely Guy
Teachers
Outrageous Fortune
See No Evil, Hear No Evil (February 5/18)
An uncommonly interminable comedy, See No Evil, Hear No Evil details the chaos that ensues after two strangers - one deaf (Gene Wilder's Dave) and one blind (Richard Pryor's Wally - stumble upon a murder and are immediately accused of the crime. Complicating matters are the increasingly persistent advances of the two criminals (Joan Severance's Eve and Kevin Spacey's Kirgo) actually responsible for the death, with the bulk of the narrative following Dave and Wally as they attempt to clear their names and bring the killers to justice. It's clear right from the get-go that See No Evil, Hear No Evil is completely and utterly devoid of interesting, competent elements, as the movie, which kicks off with a series of hopelessly unfunny jokes involving Dave and Wally's respective disabilities, suffers from an almost total lack of momentum that's compounded by desperate, incongruously broad performances by its stars. The mystery at the heart of the movie's hastily-assembled narrative is a total non-starter, and it's clear, too, that the action-packed third act ensures that the film's final stretch could hardily be more ill-advised (or interminable) - with the end result a fairly abominable misfire that has little to offer even the most die-hard Wilder and Pryor fan.
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Taking Care of Business
Married to It
The Babe
Carpool
Pucked
