A
spectacular vehicle for Bill Murray’s talent—a total showcase. Sketch
after sketch of his trademark mania before his Wes Anderson/Jarmusch/Sofia
Coppola deadpan era.
For
director Frank Oz it’s another success and good pairing with 1988’s Dirty Rotten Scoundrels – both are
dueling comedies (Richard Dreyfuss is excellent here as well as the
incredibly pompous Dr. Leo Marvin), shot by (who knew) Michael Ballhaus
with catchy playful scores by Miles Goodman
Splendid
comic writing like “There are two types of people in the world, people who
like Neil Diamond and people who don’t— my wife loves him” and “a lot of
people freeze on TV, Dad”— “thank you”
Sketches
include the Tourette syndrome scenes,
Murray just getting blown over by dust in the NYC streets with his
OCD
I’ve seen the film a dozen times so it’s
interesting now to watch it Murray’s character actually, therapeutically, gets
better throughout the film discarding his tissues
I believe there’s a nice split diopter shot
late as we look at Murray bunking up with young Siggy (Charlie Korsmo
child actor)
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