Burt Reynolds cultivates a mustache and beard which serve to muffle, or muzzle, his charm as a comic actor, and also serve to enhance his image as a serious film director -- exactly like Jerry Lewis, with his mustache and beard, in Which Way To The Front? Also like Lewis in that ill-begotten movie, Reynolds further demonstrates his seriousness by handling a subject of doubtful, if not indefensible, comic possibilities -- the subject of terminal illness and suicide. (A typical lame-brained line: "I thought I'd wake up dead," cracks Reynolds, regaining consciousness after swallowing an overdose of sleeping pills.) And also like Lewis, Reynolds seems to have become so fatigued or conceited that he is forced to delegate the most energetic comedy business to an eager second banana, Dom DeLuise. With Sally Field, Joanne Woodward, and Kristy McNichol. (1978) — Duncan Shepherd
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