Wheres Poppa
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Director Carl Reiner Music director Jack Elliott Duration Language English | 6.8/10 IMDb Genre Comedy Screenplay Robert Klane Country United States | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Release date July 9, 1970 (1970-07-09) (United States) Writer Robert Klane (screenplay), Robert Klane (novel) Cast George Segal (Gordon Hocheiser), Ruth Gordon (Mrs. Hocheiser), Ron Leibman (Sidney Hocheiser), Trish Van Devere (Louise Callan), Barnard Hughes (Colonel Hendricks), Vincent Gardenia (Coach Williams)Similar movies Django Unchained , Sexual Chronicles of a French Family , Youth , All Ladies Do It , The Dreamers , Love Actually Tagline I wish momma would stop saying that! Yeah. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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New York lawyer Gordon (George Segal) has no personal life. Instead, his time outside work is spent looking after his senile, demanding mother (Ruth Gordon), who sabotages his potential relationships. Finally, he meets a woman unafraid of her, nurse Louise Callan (Trish Van Devere). For them to get married, Gordons mother must go. But when his brother refuses to help, Gordon must find a way to dispose of the old woman, whether that means finding a nursing home or taking more extreme measures.
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Wheres Poppa? is a 1970 black comedy film; it is based on the novel by Robert Klane and stars George Segal, Ron Leibman and Ruth Gordon. The movie has sometimes been referred to as Going Ape. The plot revolves around the troubled relationship between a lawyer (Segal) and his senile mother (Gordon). The film was directed by Carl Reiner, whose son Rob Reiner had a role in an early performance. Others in the cast are Paul Sorvino, Ron Leibman, Trish Van Devere, Vincent Gardenia and future Saturday Night Live star Garrett Morris. The film was released on July 9, 1970, by United Artists.
When New York attorney Gordon Hocheiser meets Louise Callan, the girl of his dreams, he schemes to eliminate his aging, senile mother, even though he promised his late father that he'd always take care of her. He fears that his batty mom's eccentricities will shortly lead to Louise's departure.
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His mother, an 87-year-old widow, is ruining Gordon Hocheisers love life. He resents her so much, Gordon tries to scare her to death by donning a gorilla suit and attacking her in bed, only to end up on the receiving end of her cane. An attempt is made to persuade Sidney, his brother, to take their mother off Gordons hands. Sidney has troubles of his own, though, repeatedly getting mugged in Central Park.
Gordon, a lawyer, made a deathbed promise to his father not to place his mother in a rest home. She continues to keep asking where Poppa is. Gordon locates a nurse, Louise, whose patients have a peculiar habit of dying in her care. He hires Louise to be his mothers companion, hoping for the worst, and falls in love with Louise in the process.
Sidney borrows the gorilla costume and wears it home. Rather than scaring off muggers, they force him to attack a woman in the park, who turns out to be an undercover police officer. At the end of his rope, with Louise unable to stand the mother one minute more and threatening to leave Gordon, he drives to a rest home and drops off his mother at the entrance, telling her Poppa is there. Then he drives away.
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