All Melvyn Rosenbloom wants is to go back to the days when things were simpler and people were kinder -- the good old days. Deciding to renounce women altogether, he finds a house in his old neighbourhood and persuades his elderly crotchety father Harvey to move in with him. Harvey is something of a comic and, as Mel rediscovers, none too easy to live with. To add to the friction, there's the landlady, Jackie. From Mel's point of view as an aspiring celibate, she's all wrong: far too intelligent, attractive and unconventional. But, strangely enough, Jackie becomes the focus of the Rosenblooms' refashioned lives.
Acting
Saul Rubinek's exquisite midlife crisis fumbling.
Writing
Dialogue that actually sounds like father-son bickering.
Director
Mort Ransen
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Director Mort Ransen was Canadian; this rare English-language feature barely registered outside festival circuits.
Saul Rubinek was already a celebrated character actor — this was his rare leading man moment, and he carries it.
US
CA
