Rating: PG13
Genre:
Comedy Drama
Release Date: 02/14/2006
SubTitles: English/Espanol
Dubbed: English
Sound: DDS2.0/DD5.1
Run Time: 98 Minutes
Distributor/Studio: New Line Home Video
A middle-aged man finds himself dealing with the divorce of his elderly parents as well as many years of emotional baggage in this poignant
comedy drama.
Ben (
Paul Reiser) is a writer who is enjoying a quiet evening at home with his wife,
Rachel (
Elizabeth Perkins), when they receive an unexpected visitor,
Ben's father,
Sam (
Peter Falk). As it happens,
Sam has some surprising news -- his wife,
Muriel (
Olympia Dukakis), has left him, leaving behind a note saying she wants some time alone. While
Ben gets in touch with his sisters, who immediately set out to track down
Muriel, he is left to deal with
Sam while he tries to figure out what has gone wrong. Eager to spend some time with his dad to talk things out,
Ben invites
Sam along for a trip upstate to look at some property he's interested in buying, and as the two men hit the road, they get a chance to get to know one another in a way
Sam, a busy salesman, was unable to do when
Ben was a boy.
The Thing About My Folks was a pet project for
Paul Reiser, who wrote the screenplay as well as playing the lead; he'd had the script in the works for 20 years, and always intended for
Peter Falk to play the role of
Sam.
~ Mark Deming, All Movie Guide
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