Movie review
“Only When I Laugh” a winner...sort of
Neil Simon’s new film, "Only When I
Laugh" is funny but not quite funny
enough
As in other Simon hits, "Only When I
Laugh" probes a relationship, in this
case the relationship between an al
coholic actress and her new roommate,
her teenaged daughter. Like other Simon
works, it depends on lots of rapid-fire
humor to get through the slow parts
necessary to develop the serious parts of
the story
Unlike other Simon releases, the
humor doesn't always work as well as it
should, and the story drags as a result
Marsha Mason. Simon's wife and
leading lady, does a superb job in pre
senting her character, the alcoholic
Georgia Hines The audience wriggles in
anxiety as she screws up her life and her
relationship with her daughter when she
falls off of the wagon and into a few
glasses of wine
Kristy McNichol is not so good as
Hines' daughter Polly She's too exuber
ant, hyperactive and teen-age to be
believable McNichol has mastered the
art of acting for television, but has yet to
learn how to act for the movie camera
Simon, who wrote and co-produced
the film, and director Glenn Jordan went
overboard in giving their main characters
personality Mason smokes too much
McNichol bounces too much, James
Coco (as Mason's friend and guardian,
Jimmy) whimpers too much, and Joan
Hackett (as Mason's other friend, an
aging beauty queen) sticks her nose in
the air too much
Because the characters are overdone,
the humor sometimes falls flat While the
script would be excellent on stage, it
doesn't translate well to the screen
Another problem with "Only When I
Laugh" is that it contains elements from
earlier Simon works Simon fans will
recognize familiar situations and set
Three-time Academy Award nominee Marsha Mason stars in Neil Simon's "Only
When I Laugh Photo courtaty ot Columbia Picturaa
tings (I still think it's the same apartment
he used in "The Goodbye Girl ")
In spite of these problems, "Only
When I Laugh" is well worth seeing, if
only to see Marsha Mason pass herself
off as Kristy McNichol’s sister It contains
many excellent lines, lots of good photo
graphy and a nice story
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