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- 1988
- PG-13
- Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM)
- 1 h 43 m
- 1988
- PG-13
- Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM)
- 1 h 43 m
Summary On his girlfriend's insistence, a disgruntled man tries to make peace with his high-spirited, street-smart and often irritatingly careless father, a failed actor who never quit his dream to be a success.
Directed By: Henry Winkler
Written By: Eric Roth, Billy Crystal
- 1988
- PG-13
- Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM)
- 1 h 43 m
- 1988
- PG-13
- Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM)
- 1 h 43 m
Memories of Me
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Summary On his girlfriend's insistence, a disgruntled man tries to make peace with his high-spirited, street-smart and often irritatingly careless father, a failed actor who never quit his dream to be a success.
Directed By: Henry Winkler
Written By: Eric Roth, Billy Crystal
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Mixed or Average
Based on 9 Critic Reviews
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56% Positive
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5 Reviews
22% Mixed
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2 Reviews
22% Negative
2 Reviews
2 Reviews
Metascore
Mixed or Average
Based on 9 Critic Reviews
54
56% Positive
5 Reviews
5 Reviews
22% Mixed
2 Reviews
2 Reviews
22% Negative
2 Reviews
2 Reviews
The best moments in the movie involve tightly knit dialogue scenes between King and Crystal, who co-wrote the movie. Their timing has the almost effortless music of two professionals who have spent their lifetimes learning how to put the right spin on a word.
Sharply written by Billy Crystal and ably directed by Henry Winkler, Memories of Me turns out to be an enjoyably sentimental surprise - what it has going for it that the psychodramatic versions don't is a sense of humor, but it covers the same serious issues with a similar amount of depth. [07 Oct 1988]
Given its defiant adherence to cliche and avoidance of originality, Memories of Me should be boring, but the cast keeps it interesting, and many of the lines, fortunately, are amusing. [07 Oct 1988, p.F13]
Memories of Me is not great cinema, but like the best Hollywood schmaltz, it's delightful. [07 Oct 1988, p.E6]
Memories of Me, directed by ex-Fonz Henry Winkler, is a "Long Day's Journey into Schmaltz," in which an already overripe father-son conflict is further sugared by large doses of show-biz sentimentality. [07 Oct 1988, p.A]
A film that assumes it's up to the job of dealing with life and death and love, but is not even up to dealing with lobsters.
In Memories of Me, nothing goes unsaid; its banalities are triumphant, its maudlin flourishes build to maudlin crescendos.
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