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"The In Laws is one of my favourite comedies of all time. Alan Arkin and Peter Falk play it dead funny but deadpan, in this exquisitely crafted contemporary comedy - or is a drama that simply is it too real to be real, if you know what I mean - about a dentist, a CIA agent and lots more. Director Arthur Hiller, with a natural penchant for comedy, takes Andrew Bergman's superbly honed script and fulfills every promise with pay off after pay off. One of the many memorable scenes involves an off the wall sequence in a flight on a small plane.

 

The comedy is heightened by Hiller's tight rein on the performances and the camera work: 

nothing is allowed to be bigger than life, creating a black undertone that pumps the humour with pathos - but the zing is in the tale. It's first a very good story and the humour spurts from the combination of character and situation. Watch this without interruption. Tape it. Steal it…see it any which way you can."

 

Andrew L. Urban