I’ve you’ve got a bit of cinema nostalgia in your psyche, then this week’s new (but also old) release just might be your movie memory escape route. This flick’s plot has its roots in lots of early film comedies. I’ll offer a bit of a personal spin as my earliest movie theatre memory is seeing Goodbye Charlie in which the late womanizing Bff of Tony Curtis returns as Debbie Reynolds, a gender-flip reused 17 years later in the Blake Edwards spoof Switch. Speaking of age, that was the big variation of that concept that really took hold in the 1980s with fathers becoming their sons and vice-versa in Like Father Like Son and, well, Vice Versa. But the big one was 1988’s Big that veered away a bit in that a young lad suddenly became a 30-something Tom Hanks. Of course, the idea was exploited in...
- 8/12/2022
- by Jim Batts
- WeAreMovieGeeks.com
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