Has anyone ever written a book about how scripts get into development and then more than one studio makes, if not the same movie exactly, then at least the same premise.
And on top of that, one movie becomes a minor classic while the other sinks without a trace, never to be heard from ever again.
Is there anybody who hasn't seen Big with Tom Hanks, one of America's most beloved comic actors of the era (take my word for it, young people of tomorrow). Did more than 20 people see Vice Versa when it was released.
The irony is that as the years have worn on, a retrospective look at Hanks and his oeuvre often reveals an overly sentimental, shouty, one-trick pony. His career was surely saved by being cast in Philadelphia. His co-star in the movie was a no-talent brat whose name I don't even remember.
On the other hand, Vice Versa has the charming Judge Reinhold who, as far as I know, has never opened his yap to support the election of a senile hair sniffer who hates America. And that's to say nothing of Fred Savage. I'm not sure I've seen him in anything other than the fantastic The Wonder Years and his cameo in the Seinfeld episode where Kramer pitches him a script. Savage absolutely nails the role here. It's Hollywood's loss that he hit puberty without actually growing. He's a comedy natural and should be in a lot more productions.
All in all this a genial, family-friendly comedy with a lot of quotable lines:
Could I have a newspaper.
I'm calling my secretary.
I don't suppose you have any Grey Poupon.
It's a Freudian nightmare.
He's something of an enigma.
Have you done this before.
Get off the line, you pervert.
Would absolutely watch again.
And on top of that, one movie becomes a minor classic while the other sinks without a trace, never to be heard from ever again.
Is there anybody who hasn't seen Big with Tom Hanks, one of America's most beloved comic actors of the era (take my word for it, young people of tomorrow). Did more than 20 people see Vice Versa when it was released.
The irony is that as the years have worn on, a retrospective look at Hanks and his oeuvre often reveals an overly sentimental, shouty, one-trick pony. His career was surely saved by being cast in Philadelphia. His co-star in the movie was a no-talent brat whose name I don't even remember.
On the other hand, Vice Versa has the charming Judge Reinhold who, as far as I know, has never opened his yap to support the election of a senile hair sniffer who hates America. And that's to say nothing of Fred Savage. I'm not sure I've seen him in anything other than the fantastic The Wonder Years and his cameo in the Seinfeld episode where Kramer pitches him a script. Savage absolutely nails the role here. It's Hollywood's loss that he hit puberty without actually growing. He's a comedy natural and should be in a lot more productions.
All in all this a genial, family-friendly comedy with a lot of quotable lines:
Could I have a newspaper.
I'm calling my secretary.
I don't suppose you have any Grey Poupon.
It's a Freudian nightmare.
He's something of an enigma.
Have you done this before.
Get off the line, you pervert.
Would absolutely watch again.