By EWAN McDONALD
(Herald rating: * *)
Hollywood exhumes another old movie — a 1979 comedy starring Alan Arkin and Peter Falk — because it doesn't have any new ideas and because Michael Douglas and Albert Brooks can only play one role apiece.
Douglas plays CIA agent Steve Tobias, who is so bound
up in his career that it has cost his marriage to Judy (Candice Bergen) and relationship with his son, Marc (Ryan Reynolds). With his assistant (Robin Tunney), he roams the world negotiating the sale of a nuclear submarine.
Jerry Peyser (Brooks) is a neurotic podiatrist whose daughter Melissa (Lindsay Sloane) is about to marry Marc. When Jerry runs into Steve discussing CIA business in a restaurant washroom, Jerry realises his new in-law might not, in fact, be a salesman for Xerox, as he claims.
DVD features: movie (98 min); commentary by director "Andrew Fleming"; gag reel; 3 additional scenes; multiple takes of 2 scenes with Albert Brooks.
