Rating: PG
Genre:
Comedy
Release Date: 03/19/2002
SubTitles: English/French
Dubbed: English
Sound: 1
Run Time: 101 Minutes
Flags: Adult Situations, Questionable for Children, Adult Language
Distributor/Studio: Columbia TriStar
For the first (and thus far the only) time in his career,
Chevy Chase plays a genuinely sympathetic character in
Neil Simon's
Seems Like Old Times. This time around, Chase is a divorced novelist who is abducted by crooks and set up as the fall guy in a bank robbery. Arrested, Chase manages to escape and to make his way to the home of ex-wife
Goldie Hawn, now a highly respected liberal defense attorney. Chase's unexpected arrival coincides with an important dinner party on behalf of Goldie's current husband, district attorney
Charles Grodin. At first making every effort to give Chase the boot, Hawn, ever the champion of the underdog finally decides to help him out of his dilemma--much to the discomfort of her politically ambitious husband. Wisely, Grodin does not play his character as an unpleasant stuffed shirt; he is as likeable as Chase and Hawn, giving the farcical plot convolutions a tinge of reality. We care about the people involved, thus the laughs spring as much from characterization as they do from the situation. If only
Seems Like Old Times didn't have that lame-brained final close up.....
~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide
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