Stars Lily Tomlin, Art Carney, and Bill Macy as Margo, Ira, and Charlie. Carney had been the upstairs neighbor in Jackie Gleason's Honeymooners, a HUGELY, successful, early comedy series, right at the beginning of television. And at about six minutes in, I think we hear Elaine May as the newscaster voice. Not in the credits. When Margo's cat goes missing, she tries to hire Ira to track him down. But he is annoyed at being hired to find a cat. Clearly, there's a bigger thing going on there. Young Lily T... older Art Carney. Story gets kind of silly after that. The middle goes pretty slow. And the ending too. Not a whole lot going on here, in spite of the awesome main characters. Written and directed by Robert Benton. He was Quality, not Quantity....he didn't write or direct a lot of films, but the ones he did write were good! He was a writer on What's Up Doc, which was INCREDIBLE! Benton won Three oscars, and was nominated for a ton more.
Review of The Late Show
