The Cemetery Club

Comedy group The Firesign Theater used to satirize what they called "tales of little people as played by real Hollywood stars," but it's no joke anymore. Big-star, little-people dramas are everywhere lately in the wake of low-budget, big box-office hits like DRIVING MISS DAISY, STEEL MAGNOLIAS and MOONSTRUCK, whose Oscar-winning Olympia Dukakis co-stars with Ellen Burstyn and Diane Ladd in this uneven comedy-drama about Jewish widows trying to cope with single life in Pittsburgh.

Calling themselves the "The Cemetery Club" for their group visits to their late husband's graves, the three widows always then retire to Nader's Delicatessen to commiserate and swap s...