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Aspect Ratio: 1.85:1
Audience Rating: PG (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Binding: DVD
EAN: 0024543130987
Format: Closed-captioned, Color, Dubbed, DVD-Video, Subtitled, Widescreen, NTSC
Label: 20th Century Fox
Manufacturer: 20th Century Fox
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: 20th Century Fox
Region Code: 1
Release Date: June 19, 2007
Running Time: 107 minutes
Sales Rank: 33298
Studio: 20th Century Fox
Theatrical Release Date: June 18, 1982
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Description:
Life is getting complicated for Broadway playwright Ivan Travalian (Pacino). His flaky wife Gloria (Weld) is moving in with her lover, his director hates his new play and his leading lady (Cannon) is a terrified movie star who's never been on the stage. With five children to look after (most of them Gloria's), a budding romance with his leading lady, and a producer (King) demanding a rewrite, it's no wonder the emotionally and financially unstable Ivan starts to exhibit all kinds of irrational behavior.
Amazon.com:
During a downturn in his career, Al Pacino starred in this unfortunate comedy about a guy coping with a new romance, a house full of kids, and a new play--and doing a bad job of it. Pacino is a playwright who is convinced that he's about to have his first stage success. As opening night approaches, his wife bolts from the marriage, abandoning him with five kids (only one of whom is his). While he tries to juggle rewrites and a potential entanglement with a flighty actress and a demanding producer and director, he also has to solve his baby-sitting woes. Talk about trying to do it all. If only the material was as funny as Pacino, who may have made this film out of allegiance to its writer, Israel Horovitz, whose play The Indian Wants the Bronx gave Pacino one of his breakthrough roles in the early 1960s. --Marshall Fine
Customer Reviews
Average Rating: 
Rating:  - Cut Scenes
Does anyone know why FOX dropped the last scene from the the DVD release?
I notice that other reviewers are baffled too, so any info posted here would be helpful. Thanks.
Rating:  - Mixed feelings, some soild points
There are two good things to be said of Arthur Hiller's Author! Author!
(at the Plaza): Tuesday Weld and Dyan Cannon. The former plays Al
Pacino's wife, the latter his mistress. Both are actresses of
distinction. Both look terrific. Both should be reminded that this too
shall pass.
As Broadway playwright Ivan Travalian, an Armenian Neil Simon, Al
Pacino is another matter. Pacino is an actor of distinction, but he
does not look terrific - he looks, in fact, unaccountably dissipated,
like mid- period Leonard Cohen - and he has retained the leaden
lifelessness he brought to Cruising. Because Israel Horovitz's
abominable script was apparently conceived with Richard Dreyfuss in
mind (Ivan Travalian is a twinkly, manic shouter), Pacino's
lugubriousness sabotages whatever infinitesimal chance the movie might
have had for success (it's not what you'd call a great loss).
The much-married Ivan is rearing, $ la Dustin Hoffman's Ted Kramer,
five children abandoned by Ivan's various wives. He is a loving father
and is so devotedly altrustic he is lacking an artist's ego - the
reason this mother hen wants the newest play to become a hit is so
there will be enough money to feed the chicks.
The brood is composed of the most appalling set of exhibitionistic
child actors this side of Eight Is Enough; the delicately modulated
characterizations achieved from the young performers ... Read More
Rating: - AUthor Author
DVD was delivered in good time, faster than stated. DVD was in good condition. HOwever was disappointed to find that the DVD version crops off the original beginning and 10 minutes off the end. The oriinal screen and VHS version ends with a celebration the next day in Ivan's bedroom with the kids hitting Ivan with a cake! The DVD version ends on the street the night before in front of the news stand. Disappointing.
Rating: - Where's the ending!!!!
I finally find one of my all time favorite Pacino movies on DVD only to have the ending scene cut!! Why the hell are things like this done?! DVDs are supposed to offer special features, cast interviews and missing scenes. Maybe when the next version of this movie is released it will contain the missing scenes from this release!!! A BIG disappointment!!
Rating:  - Stop changing these movies
First let me say, I am glad that this is finally on DVD. I have been looking for this one. Second what is with these companies. They changed the ending. Ok, not changed it, THEY TOOK IT OUT. I enjoyed this movie when it first came out. It should how a father struggled to make ends meat with 5 kids. Having to deal with a cheating wife, and still write a play. It showed the love that a father has in these kids. Mind you only one is his. The other 4 are his by marriage and he loves them as if they were his own. But to take out the one scene that was fun and touching is stupid. What is wrong with the kids showing there father that, not only is he a success on Braodway but that he is still their Dad. I loved that scene and hoped that when it was released on DVD it would be there. But NO! They took it out and stopped it when he is reading the paper. They really need think. This is not the first movie that has been changed. I now am going to try and get the VHS instead. At least that one, hopefully they didnt change.
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