This is a simple-minded but engaging comedy with Lefkowitz and Rogoff as two people in a patently Italian family. The script is derivative, and much of the technical side is poor; but there was a lot of love applied to this story of a paunchy 29-year-old who works at his father's print
shop and still lives at home. He wants to make a go of the business, but his father and younger brother won't let him. His social life is no better as he has a shallow relationship with waitress Byrnes. It's an update of MARTY in that Lefkowitz is not unlike Chayefsky's memorable butcher, and his
friends are younger versions of Mantell and the others. Lefkowitz eventually has a fling...
Released:
1973
Rated:
R
Length:
88 mins