{"id":41145,"date":"2026-02-21T11:45:11","date_gmt":"2026-02-21T16:45:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/?p=41145"},"modified":"2026-02-21T11:48:00","modified_gmt":"2026-02-21T16:48:00","slug":"the-in-laws-1979-starring-peter-falk-alan-arkin-z-view","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/?p=41145","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;The In-Laws&#8221; (1979) starring Peter Falk &amp; Alan Arkin \/ Z-View"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/stallonezone.com\/zone\/2026\/z022126zview_inlaws.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"766\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<p><em><strong>The In-Laws <\/strong><\/em>(1979)<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Director:<strong> Arthur Hiller<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Screenplay: <strong>Andrew Bergman<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Stars: <strong>Peter Falk, Alan Arkin, Richard Libertini, Nancy Dussault, Penny Peyser, Arlene Golonka, Paul L. Smith, Carmine Caridi, James Hong, David Paymer <\/strong>and <strong>Ed Begley Jr.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Tagline: <em>While the Father of the Bride was extracting a molar from Mrs. Cohen, the Father of the Groom was extracting $20 Million from the U.S. Mint. And this was only the beginning.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>The Plot&#8230;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Dr. Sheldon &#8220;Shelley&#8221; Kornpett&#8217;s daughter is about to marry the son of Vince Ricardo.\u00a0 Shelley likes his future daughter-in-law and her mother.\u00a0 He has concerns about Vince though.\u00a0 Shelley thinks Vince tells tall tales (to put it politely) and might even be crazy.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">So when Vince comes to Shelley&#8217;s office and asks a favor, he&#8217;s hesitant.\u00a0 Vince promises it will just take five minutes.\u00a0 Not wanting to create waves Shelley agrees.\u00a0 Soon he&#8217;s involved with money stolen from the US Mint, and chased by crooks and the CIA.\u00a0 Oh, and the wedding is tomorrow.<\/p>\n<p>Serpentine!\u00a0 Serpentine!<\/p>\n<p><strong style=\"font-size: inherit; color: var(--text-color); font-family: var(--text-font);\">Thoughts (beware of spoilers)\u2026<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><i>The In-Laws <\/i>showcases David Paymer&#8217;s feature film debut.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Fran Drescher, who gained fame in <em>The Nanny<\/em>, was originally cast as the daughter but was fired shortly after filming began.\u00a0 The part was recast with Penny Peyser.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">I saw <em>The In-Laws<\/em> during it&#8217;s original theatrical run and loved it.\u00a0 I re-watched it recently and am happy to say it holds up.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><em><strong>The In-Laws <\/strong><\/em>(1979) rates 4 of 5 stars.<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/stallonezone.com\/zone\/logo\/zview_b.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\/2026\/z022126zview_inlaws2.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"343\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The In-Laws (1979) Director: Arthur Hiller Screenplay: Andrew Bergman Stars: Peter Falk, Alan Arkin, Richard Libertini, Nancy Dussault, Penny Peyser,<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":912,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,63,54,65,74],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-41145","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-celebs","category-humor","category-movies","category-trivia","category-z-view"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41145","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/912"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=41145"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41145\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":41147,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41145\/revisions\/41147"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=41145"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=41145"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=41145"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}