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Plot

Adapted from the play by Jules Feiffer, Grown Ups was produced for cable television. A pre-talkshow Charles Grodin plays the Feifferesque central character, a writer facing a mid-life crisis. He turns to his family for support, but, to put it mildly, they're no help at all. Feiffer is a writer of monologues rather than plays, and the verbose nature of this taped drama bears this out: characters talk at each other incessantly, but never to each other. Still, Grodin and his co-stars Jean Stapleton, Martin Balsam and Marilu Henner hold up quite well under the circumstances.
MPAA Rating:
Genre(s):
Art and Experimental,Documentary,Drama,Special Interest
Run Time:
106min.
Director(s):
John Madden
Keywords:
dysfunctional,family,journalism,writing