![]() ![]() Grodin is convincing playing what tended to be a very typical role for him – the bemused, confused, slightly put-upon straight man. ![]() She plays it up a bit like a screwball comedy, but it works because she's just as believable in dramatic scenes. Burnett is busy channeling elements of everything she played on her 11-year variety show, and it works well in the framework of sarcastic dialogue. It's an easy film to believe, though everything is secondary to the roles of Carol Burnett and Charles Grodin. It plays very much like a pilot for a TV series, and as far as family comedy/drama shows go, it would have made a very good one. Something like "The Grass Is Always Greener Over the Septic Tank" is an ideal example of both. Often, and perhaps at their best, they were adaptations of novels or screenplays deemed either too low-key for cinema or uncomplicated enough to manage on a small budget. I've always felt a real attraction to the early heyday of 1970s-80s television movies. ![]()
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