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The Thing About My Folks

2005, Movie, PG-13, 96 mins

The Thing About My Folks: Review

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,... read more leave a comment

The Thing About My Folks: Cast & Details

Year: 2005
Rated PG-13

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Cast
Peter Falk: Sam Kleinman
Paul Reiser: Ben Kleinman
Olympia Dukakis: Muriel Kleinman
Elizabeth Perkins: Rachel Kelinman
MacKenzie Connolly: Lilly Kleinman
Lydia Jordan: Mia Kleinman

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The Thing About My Folks: TV Guide News

Paul Reiser Plans Sitcom Return | Today's News: Our Take | 2/14/2006
Paul Reiser is mad about cars. Or, more specifically, a car dealership. OK, even more to the point, he's mad about a sitcom pilot he's currently developing for CBS about a guy who sells cars for a living. At the same time, the Mad About You alum is happy to be bringing The Thing About My Folks — which he wrote and produced, and in which he plays son to one of his idols, Peter Falk — to DVD. Reiser found a few minutes to speak with TVGuide.com about his new TV foray (including whether there's a role in it for Falk), and the very special "extra" included in the Folks DVD. TVGuide.com: I just wanted to amend read more
The Case of the Missing Peter Falk | Today's News: Our Take | 9/16/2005
If you're a Peter Falk fan, you may be wondering why the five-time Emmy winner hasn't been gracing the small screen much in recent years. Since his last turn as America's most diligent detective (in 2003's Columbo Likes the Nightlife), save for a pair of TV-movies in which he played an angel named Max, Falk sightings have been scarce. Regarding his next appearance in Columbo's trademark trench coat, Falk tells TVGuide.com, "There's a bit of a problem. The script that I like, the network doesn't like. The script that they like, I don't like." What, we ask, is not to like about the follow-up that Falk favors? "That is a good question. A good question," he says, nodding. ABC wants Columbo's next case to center around the world of lingerie models, "so you can see why they would prefer that one." Sure, other material com read more
Paul Reiser Is Mad About Peter Falk | Today's News: Our Take | 9/14/2005
For Paul Reiser, landing Peter Falk to play his pop in The Thing About My Folks (opening Sept. 16 in select cities) was a decades-long dream come true. "I was playing with this [script] for, like, 20 years and always hoped Peter would be in it," shares the actor-writer-producer, best known to TV audiences for his seven-year run on Mad About You. "I even bumped into him a few times, but never told him. I figured the best he would say is, 'Great let me see it' — and then I'd have to go write it!"

As it was, each time Reiser went to flesh out his germ of a film idea — in which a father and son learn some hard truths about each other over the course of an unplanned extended road trip — he put the unfini read more