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Audience Rating: R (Restricted) Binding: VHS Tape EAN: 9786300268753 Format: Color, NTSC ISBN: 6300268756 Label: Warner Home Video Manufacturer: Warner Home Video Number Of Items: 1 Publisher: Warner Home Video Release Date: January 31, 1995 Running Time: 112 minutes Sales Rank: 4569 Studio: Warner Home Video Theatrical Release Date: January 18, 1980
Description: When his mistress announces her impending marriage to another man, a powerful tycoon does everything in his power to sabotage the relationship.
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Rating: - Just Tell Me What You Want
I first saw this movie in the early 80's became an instant Alan King fan and purchased it immediately. The movie was hilarious. It is about a tycoon (Max) with a alcoholic wife (Connie), mistress (Bones) and a protective secretary (Stella) and how Max's agressive, manipulative and vindictive personality affects all. Anyone who watches this movie will never forget the hilarious scene where Bones (McGraw) attacks Max (King) at Bergdorf's.
You could classify this movie as the comedic version of Wall Street. Gordon Gecko - "Greed is good"
Max Hershel - "You don't get poor by ... Read More
Rating: - Just Watch It.....
And you'll find yourself falling in love with it. Alan King -- "Max" --- is hilarious and Ali McGraw perfect in this hilarious upscale comedy. Fun actors included: Keenan Wynn (as a ailing Jewish tycoon); Dina Merrill (as Alan King's blueblood but drunken wife); Judy Kaye (great Broadway actress as Alan King's daughter "Baby" -- her daughter is named "Newbaby"); Myrna Loy (yes the old film star) as Max's sec'y; and Tony Roberts as Keenan Wynn's effete and homosexual movie company president.
Rating: - Just Give Me What I Want
An admitted fan of obscure titles, this film is one that sits proudly on my shelf and just about everyone asks "What's this about?" It's about life. The plot revolves around a selfish and wealthy man with a wife, and a secretary and a mistress who alternately wants and then rebuffs just about everyone. Alan King is drop dead great in the most solid performance of his career as Max the high rolling lover of long suffering mistress Bones Burton (Ali McGraw). He wants her, he doesn't want her, he doesn't know what he wants. But he definitely doesn't want anyone else to have her, especially playwright ... Read More
