{"id":28891,"date":"2022-01-29T09:00:00","date_gmt":"2022-01-29T14:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/?p=28891"},"modified":"2022-01-29T09:15:08","modified_gmt":"2022-01-29T14:15:08","slug":"the-sunshine-boys-1975-z-view","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/?p=28891","title":{"rendered":"The Sunshine Boys (1975) \/ Z-View"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/stallonezone.com\/zone\/2022\/z012922zview_sunshineboys.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"750\" \/><\/p>\n<p><em><strong>The Sunshine Boys<\/strong><\/em> (1975)<\/p>\n<p>Director:\u00a0 <strong>Herbert Ross<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Screenplay:\u00a0 <strong>Neil Simon<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Starring:\u00a0 <strong>Walter Matthau, George Burns, Richard Benjamin, F. Murray Abraham <\/strong>and <strong>Howard Hesseman.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Tagline: <em>For the price of a movie, you&#8217;ll feel like a million!<\/em><\/p>\n<p>The Overview:\u00a0 Beware of Spoilers\u2026<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">At one time Lewis &amp; Clark, aka The Sunshine Boys, were the Kings of Vaudeville.\u00a0 \u00a0Audiences loved their routines and the comedy duo had a long, successful run.\u00a0 Sadly, when Lewis &amp; Clark broke up, they&#8217;d reached the point that neither could stand the other.\u00a0 They haven&#8217;t talked in years.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Now an opportunity to perform together on television has appeared.\u00a0 Will The Sunshine Boys be able to put aside past differences and catch lightning in a bottle once again?<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">As I watched <em>The Sunshine Boys<\/em> I couldn&#8217;t help but think how our perception of the elderly has changed.\u00a0 When Lewis got lost, couldn&#8217;t open a door and yelled at people, audiences in 1975 probably thought, &#8220;This old guy is quite a character.&#8221;\u00a0 I couldn&#8217;t help but think, I wonder if he has onset dementia.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">I was expecting more laughs from <em>The Sunshine Boys<\/em>.\u00a0 The best scene is when Lewis &amp; Clark first get together to rehearse the routine they&#8217;ll perform on tv.\u00a0 Sadly the rehearsal is funnier than the actual performance.\u00a0 Also Lewis comes off as a real jerk.\u00a0 It&#8217;s no wonder Clark didn&#8217;t want to perform with him any longer.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Still <em>The Sunshine Boys<\/em> does have it&#8217;s moments.\u00a0 George Burns is a joy and it&#8217;s no wonder he won an <em>Oscar<\/em> for his performance (which was the first movie he&#8217;d made in over 30 years)!\u00a0 The scene of Lewis auditioning for a potato chip commercial is funny.\u00a0 The interactions of Lewis &amp; Clark are the heart of the movie and I wish we had more of them.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><em>The Sunshine Boys<\/em> earns 3 of 5 stars.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/stallonezone.com\/zone\/logo\/zview_c.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"100\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/stallonezone.com\/zone\/2022\/z012922zview_sunshineboys2.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"337\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Sunshine Boys (1975) Director:\u00a0 Herbert Ross Screenplay:\u00a0 Neil Simon Starring:\u00a0 Walter Matthau, George Burns, Richard Benjamin, F. 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