Great Film: The In-Laws
Extremely Funny
Steve Tobias (Michael Douglas) is an undercover and efficient CIA
agent, supported by the lower-ranked CIA agent Angela Harris (Robin
Tunney), and assigned in a dangerous and secret international mission.
He is trying to retrieve a nuclear submarine and arrest some
international drug dealers and smugglers. Steve is also a reckless and
absent father. His son Mark (Ryan Reynolds) is a lawyer, who is going
to get married with Melissa Peyser (Lindsay Sloane), the daughter of
the housewife Katherine Peyser (Maria Ricossa) and Jerry Peyser (Albert
Brooks), a conservative podiatrist of Chicago. Jerry is the opposite of
Steve, being afraid of airplanes and living a routinely life. When the
two families meet for a dinner in a Vietnamese restaurant to celebrate
the forthcoming wedding, Jerry is mistakenly identified as a secret
agent, turning his life upside-down. I found this movie extremely
funny. The combination of Michael Douglas and Albert Brooks was
amazingly (and even surprisingly) good. The performance of David
Suchet, as the gay French drug dealer and criminal Jean-Pierre
Thibodoux, is also excellent and very funny. KC and the Sunshine Band
playing an old hit is also great and completes a highly recommended
comedy. My vote is eight.
Title (Brazil): 'Até Que os Parentes Nos Separem' ('Until the Relatives
Get Us Apart')
Cast
- Mark Tobias played by Ryan Reynolds
- Patient played by Boyd Banks
- Angela Harris played by Robin Tunney
- Jerry Peyser played by Albert Brooks
- Steve Tobias played by Michael Douglas
- Cherkasov's Bodyguard played by Michael Bodnar
- Cherkasov played by Vladimir Radian
