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THE THING ABOUT MY FOLKS

94 MINUTES | HARVARD SQUARE + CHESTNUT HILL + EMBASSY + SUBURBS

Familiar, well-intentioned, saccharine, and cheaply shot, this quintessential "festival film" begins as "unconscionable prick" Sam Kleinman (a flatulent Peter Falk) shows up at the home of son Ben (Paul Reiser, doubling as screenwriter) with the news that his wife of 47 years (Olympia Dukakis) has left him. A road trip of self-discovery and classic father-son activities — fishing, baseball, poolhall fights, drunken vomiting — follows. You might want to slip quietly out the back door as the familial bickering climaxes. Two women who join the men late in the film do just that.

BY BRETT MICHEL

Issue Date: September 16 - 22, 2005
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