Video Review

The Sunshine Boys (1999)

Reviewed by Beth Pinsker | May 28, 1999
EW's GRADE
B

Details Release Date: May 25, 1999; Movie Rated: Unrated; Genre: Comedy; With: Woody Allen and Peter Falk

You could line up a cast like this only for a TV movie with golden material, and there's no doubt Neil Simon's The Sunshine Boys, a veritable comedy primer, is attractive. But the 1975 film, with George Burns and Walter Matthau as warring vaudeville comedians who reluctantly team up for one last show, still seems more modern. Woody Allen is too whiny and Peter Falk not gruff enough to make the spiffiest lines shine. B

Originally posted May 28, 1999 Published in issue #487 May 28, 1999 Order article reprints

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