Best Friends Movie Review
Best Friends Review
"Best Friends" Overview
Rating: PG
1982
Cast and Crew
Director : Norman JewisonProducer : Norman Jewison,Patrick J. Palmer
Screenwiter : Valerie Curtin,Barry Levinson
Starring : Burt Reynolds,Goldie Hawn,Jessica Tandy,Barnard Hughes,Audra Lindley,Keenan Wynn,Ron Silver
When Best Friends is less than halfway over, you'll long for a much better '80s
rom-com like Seems Like Old Times, also starring Goldie Hawn in one of her
endless roles from the era as (basically) herself.
Hawn is partnered rather tragically here with Burt Reynolds. They play the
titular best friends -- screenwriters -- who decide to get married, only to
realize that romance is far more difficult than friendship. I mean, there's
in-laws! An old and groping father is about as funny as Friends ever gets, as
the movie's one-liners fall down flat one after another. That's probably
because the film is based on the real life of writers Valerie Curtin and Barry
Levinson, and frankly not much amusing seems to have happened during their
brief marriage.
Jessica Tandy is a sole (and fleeting) highlight in the film as a rather lucid
mother to Hawn, but Best Friends is such a forgettable film I had no
recollection of it ever being made.
Reviewer: Christopher Null
