- Studio: Warner Bros. Pictures
- Release Date: Aug 17, 1990
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- Starring: Rick Moranis, Steve Martin
- Summary: A mob informant makes life crazy for the FBI man guarding him and the D.A. wanting him back in jail. (Warner Bros. Studio)
- Director: Herbert Ross
- Genre(s): Comedy
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My Blue Heaven: a funny, sometimes insightful look at what life might be like when a hardened criminal is plunked down in middle-class suburbia. [20 Aug 1990, p.23]
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67The movie itself, with the exception of a few scenes, doesn't really have the wit it's aiming for, and among Steve Martin vehicles it's middle-drawer, at best. Yet that mood of silly exuberance reigns through most of the picture.
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60Script and direction are both fairly slapdash, but the actors and the overall sweetness keep this chugging along on some level .
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38Although about as authentic as Chef Boy-Ar-Dee, Martin at least gets to dress funny. Joan Cusack's D.A. looks dowdy and is misused. Carol Kane's grocery-store siren looks slutty and is underused. And as a cop, Melanie Mayron should slap cuffs on her hairdresser. [20 Aug 1990, p.4D]
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