National General Pictures
Directed by Melville Shavelson
My rating: 3 stars out of 4
IMDb
(DVD, CBS/Paramount)
Humorist Jack Lemmon makes a living writing and drawing cartoons about his hatred for women, dogs and children. His beliefs are put to the test when he falls in love with lonely divorcee Barbara Harris. They eventually get married and he is thrust into dealing with her precocious young children and their problems, not to mention her ex-husband. Meanwhile, he is slowly going blind from a childhood injury. Based on the writings of James Thurber, the film even manages to incorporate his cartoon drawings into the plot, with a memorable scene involving a drunk Lemmon and Jason Robards fighting it out with an army of cartoon women.
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