Movie’s a two. Peter Falk bumps it up like the sweet angel he is.
Reviews of The In-Laws 1979
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Tremendous chemistry between the these two titans. Screwballness gets a bit tiresome by the end for me, but overall very fun.
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Peter and Alan are so good in this
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such a blast, alan arkin one of the funniest people ever.
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Quem tiver seus in-laws que não me esconda.
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There's me thinking i couldn't love peter falk more than i do, just so good in this.
Falk and alan arkin's faces when the general's friend kisses them is bliss. -
Well, at least we tried
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The In-Laws, directed by Arthur Hiller, 1979Peter Falk and Alan Arkin play off of each other so well in this comedy. It initially seems like it would just be a usual meet-the-parents comedy with Vincent, Falk’s CIA agent, and Sheldon, Arkin’s dentist, just being from two completely different worlds, but The In-Laws has more to offer once Vincent gets Sheldon involved in robbery and international conspiracy.
The constant interplay between straight man…
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What an absolute gem of a film! Faulk and Arkin are two of my all-time favs and this is them at their best. With Redford/Newman level chemistry,dodging bullets ("Serpintine,Shell...serepintine!") in South America and NYC. There's a scene with Alan Arkin himself riding the roof of a taxi driving down the street, and later Peter Falk driving Saud taxi backwards at speed down the wringway of a freeway! I never realized they let them actually do that.
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if you tell your cab driver “pronto” they have the legal right to speed as fast as you need them to. little known fact.
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The masculine urge to drive your car in serpentine formation