Excruciating romantic comedy about a middle-aged man obsessed with making a baby and having no luck doing it. The pain, though pretty much constant, is at its intensest whenever comedy makes way for "sensitivity" (at which times the pain meant to be felt in your heart slips instead to the stomach) or else whenever the script sets about to flatter its protagonist, a "controversial" cartoonist who gets told at a book-signing that he's "very funny," gets applauded on Regis Philbin's talk show, gets placed in the "comic pantheon" by the Village Voice, and gets credited all by himself with the "resurgence" of political humor in America. Gene Wilder, Christine Lahti, Mary Stuart Masterson; directed by Leonard Nimoy. (1990) — Duncan Shepherd
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