The Thing About My Folks

Nicely calibrated performances by Peter Falk and writer-producer Paul Reiser make this broad, sentimental comedy about the yawning gulf between loving fathers and sons more palatable than the average "very special" sitcom episode. The youngest of four children and the only boy, Ben Kleinman (Reiser) has been butting heads with his hardheaded, perpetually kvetching father, Sam (Falk), for as long as he can remember. Now married and the father of two little girls (Lydia Jordan, Mackenzie Connolly), Ben is surprised and suspicious when his dad shows up at their Manhattan apartment one evening, unannounced and maddeningly vague about the reason for his visit. While Ben p...