Seems Like Old Times
Director: Jay Sandrich
Year Released: 1980
Rating: 2.0
A writer who lives in seclusion (a smug Chevy Chase ... sorry if I am being redundant) is kidnapped by two mugs and forced to help them rob a bank; on the lam, he turns to his attorney ex-wife (Goldie Hawn) and her milquetoast husband (Charles Grodin) for food and shelter. This is a feeble attempt at screwball comedy and only sporadically humorous - as charming and cute as Hawn's altruistic character is, it can't make up for the pratfalls and hokey physical comedy like Chase hiding under a bed or Chase pretending to be a waiter or Chase fighting a losing battle with a garden hose. Grodin's tolerance for his wife's behavior is saintly: he even allows her to kiss her ex on the lips (I would have kicked her rear not so long after she brought the second dog into the house). Always good for a chuckle: a kleptomaniac Negro servant! Har har, Neil.
