A waste of time. Maybe not for Chevy Chase, who seldom seems to have better things to do, but for director George Roy Hill, who sometimes does have. It's in the tradition of George Washington Slept Here, The Egg and I, and (with a somewhat different tone) Jean de Florette: big-city sportswriter moves to the country to work at leisure on his comedy-action-adventure novel, The Big Heist. When it touches (briefly) on literary vanity, it knows right where to put its finger. But when it clutches at cynicism about small-town life -- how it actually is as contrasted with how Norman Rockwell pictured it -- it seems very third-hand: the hero goes fishing in the pond and reels in a water moccasin; the motor boat starts up and he pitches into the lake; etc., etc. With Madolyn Smith. (1988) — Duncan Shepherd
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