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Aspect Ratio: 1.85:1
Audience Rating: PG (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Binding: DVD
Brand: Warner Home Video
EAN: 9780790775630
Format: Closed-captioned, Color, DVD-Video, Subtitled, Widescreen, NTSC
ISBN: 0790775638
Label: Warner Home Video
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Manufacturer: Warner Home Video
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: Warner Home Video
Region Code: 1
Release Date: May 13, 2003
Running Time: 103 minutes
Sales Rank: 4910
Studio: Warner Home Video
Theatrical Release Date: 1979
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Amazon.com:
This 1979 comedy is absolutely indispensable for fans of Peter Falk, Alan Arkin, or Andrew Bergman, who wrote the film's screenplay and went on to direct The Freshman and Honeymoon in Vegas. (Let's forgive him for Striptease.) Arkin is extraordinarily funny as a dentist who quickly grows skeptical about the wild claims of his daughter's future father-in-law (Peter Falk) that he is a CIA agent. When he is drawn into a bizarre adventure in a banana republic, however, he takes a different view. Arthur Hiller (Love Story) provides serviceable direction, but the real draw here is the perfect chemistry between the two leads and Bergman's weirdly comic mind. Watch for the look on Arkin's face when Falk's character tells a story about giant tse-tse flies. --Tom Keogh
Product Description:
With his daughter about to marry Manhattan dentist Sheldon Kornpett is getting in over his head. The groom's father Vince Ricardo (who may/may not be CIA) has been in over his head so long he may have lost it totally. As played by Alan Arkin and Peter Falk they're as different as night and day - and one of the funniest screen teams ever as The In-Laws. (The 2003 remake The Wedding Party stars Michael Douglas and Albert Brooks.) Throw in a uniquely zany script by Andrew Bergman (Blazing Saddles Fletch) and snappy direction by Arthur Hiller (The Americanization of Emily The Hospital) and you have a wild and woolly comedy that doesn't stop at hilarious. The In-Laws is a scream.Running Time: 103 min.Format: DVD MOVIE Genre: COMEDY UPC: 085392387823
Customer Reviews
Average Rating: 
Rating: - Perhaps the funniest movie ever made!
This original version of "The In-Laws" (starring Peter Falk and Alan Arkin) is perhaps the funniest movie ever made! The casting is perfect, the script is a gem, and the performances of Falk and Arkin are so absolutely on-the-mark that it's impossible to consider someone else playing their roles. This is a movie to own and watch over and over, any time you want laugh-out-loud, aisle-rolling belly laughs.
Rating:  - The In-Laws
This is the best of them all - no re-make can ever be as great as this, the original!!
Rating: - "The next time we're in Tijata, Shel ..."
Perhaps once of the best comedic movies of all time. A classic, without a doubt. As I watched this film for the ump-teenth time recently, I am still amazed at all of the funny lines and scenes. I actually thought the script was 50% improvisation given how well Falk and Arkin interact on camera. They make it look so natural and effortless. Richard Libertini is a south-of-the-border cliche of cliches, and he is brilliant at it! What more can be said about the movie that hasn't already been said? Heaps of praise from this reviewer. As for the DVD itself, the only addition is a commentary, which was nice, given that it was Arkin, Falk, the director and the screenplay writer. Unfortunately they got off track so much in their own conversations vs. what is being shown on the screen that you've heard the whole serpentine bit 5 minutes into the film, and other things like that. But still worth the price! No remake could ever do this screwball comedy justice.
Rating: - There are 2 words for Arkin & Falk: Versatile genius!
Ever since I had the great pleasure of watching Alan Arkin in "Catch 22" (which I did with great reluctance, having been such a great fan of the author Joseph Heller) I have managed to be in the audience of every movie in which he has graced the screen! His versatility as a character actor never ceases to amaze me; from the calculating casino owner in "Havana" to his portrayal as the reluctant dentist in "The In Laws" and everything else in between! Why on God's earth did they have to remake such a zany and entertaining film?
Peter Falk must, in all justice, take half the credit for the hugely watchable production and once again, the versatility really shines through, right from the very first opening frames; the true measure of a pair of first class performers!
I love it!
Rating: - "We have no blindfolds senor, we are a poor country."
The original 1979 version of The In-Laws is certainly showing its age, not least in the relatively low laugh-ratio in the first half. But there's still much to enjoy in this odd couple comedy where a hapless dentist finds himself wondering whether his prospective addition to the family's father is an out-of-his-tree fantasist or really is a CIA superspy, especially once Richard Libertini's insane South American dictator turns up, while James Hong's aircraft safety lecture in Mandarin is worth the price of admission on its own. Alan Akin and Peter Falk play off each other so well that it's a real shame that their only other starring partnership, the problem-plagued Big Trouble (1986) is so very poor that they never got re-teamed again.
The only extra is the trailer.
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