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Sweet Liberty (1986)

Director:
Alan Alda
COUNTRY
USA
GENRE
Comedy
NORWEGIAN TITLE
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RUNNING TIME
106 minutes
Producer:
Martin Bregman
Screenwriter:
Alan Alda


Cast includes:

CHARACTER ACTOR/ACTRESS RATING
Michael Burgess Alan Alda ½
Elliott James Michael Caine ½
Faith Healy Michelle Pfeiffer ½
Stanley Gould Bob Hoskins
Gretchen Carlsen Lise Hillboldt
Cecelia Burgess Lillian Gish
Bo Hodges Saul Rubinek
Leslie Lois Chiles
Jesse Dann Florek
Floyd John C. McGinley

 

Review

Alan Alda gives the film industry a mild ransacking in this slight and horribly scored metafilm comedy. As always, Alda's characters are good-natured and often amusing, embodying Alda's sometimes keen-eyed, sometimes bland observations. But despite a potentially original concept and angle, as well as Alda's familiar enjoyable atmosphere, the film never is able to rise out of conventionality, and it is mostly up to the cast to charm their way out of otherwise unremarkable situations.

 

Copyright © 29.4.2011 Fredrik Gunerius Fevang

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