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    Author! Author! (1982)

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    An ill-cast but effective Al Pacino is having a host of domestic troubles as playwright Ivan Travalian. His wife has left him for a guy called Larry Kotzwinkle, and there are five kids to support.

    Add to that the fact that his latest play is about to open on Broadway but it’s not ready, the director is incompetent and there’s no lead actress and you might see why Ivan’s not a happy man.

    There is a sort of rough-edged charm to this comedy, largely thanks to the blissful performances of clever Dyan Cannon and the sublime Tuesday Weld as the women in Pacino’s life, but the material involving the threesome’s respective offspring is extraordinarily tasteless.

    Added to that, director Arthur Hiller has a tough time finding the requisite lightness of touch to make all the shenanigans convincing.

    Ivan Travalian
    Al Pacino
    Alice Detroit
    Dyan Cannon
    Gloria
    Tuesday Weld
    Kreplich
    Alan King
    Finestein
    Bob Dishy
    Patrick Dicker
    Bob Elliott
    Igor
    Eric Curry
    Bonnie
    Elva Leff
    Spike
    B J Barie
    Debbie
    Ari Meyers
    Geraldo
    Benjamin H Carlin
    Seth Shapiro
    Richard Belzer
    JJ
    Andre Gregory

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    Arthur Hiller

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