372 - The In-Laws, United States, 1979. Dir. Arthur Hiller.

Sunday, January 7, 2018

372 - The In-Laws, United States, 1979.  Dir. Arthur Hiller.

Manhattan dentist Sheldon Kornpett's daughter is marrying Vince Ricardo's son.

How wonderful.

Two nice families are coming together to become one big, loving, peaceful family.

Either that or Ricardo is going to get Kornpett killed.

Or imprisoned.

Or lost in the Central American island of Tijada.

Ricardo, played by the one-and-only Peter Falk, seems to have some kind of a problem.  He says he works for the CIA, but he entangles his soon-to-be in-law in crazy chases through the streets, breaking into Ricardo's own safe, jumping out a window, running down a fire escape, getting shot at, flying in a private plane, getting shot at again, speeding away in a car with the tire blown out, being thrown to the ground in the hotel lobby, racing through the street of Tijada, crashing into a market of fruit vendors.

The wedding is this Sunday.

Are you looking forward to it?

All of this excitement is over some engravings from the U.S. Treasury Department which were stolen from their truck and given to Ricardo.  In an underground sting.  To catch the cartel.  So he says.

Alan Arkin plays Kornpett.  And he and Falk seem to be having a great time engaging in their madcap shenanigans.

If they can just make it to the church in time.