All of me 1984 film

I liked this one a little better than you did, but I think every single one of your cavils is fair, to say the least.

A dying millionaire has her soul transferred into a younger, willing woman. However, something goes wrong, and she finds herself in her lawyer's body - together with the lawyer. Roger : Just because my grandfather didn't rape the environment and exploit the workers doesn't make me a peasant. And it's not that he didn't want to rape the environment and exploit the workers, I'm sure he did. It's just that as a barber, he didn't have that much opportunity. Sign In Sign In.

All of me 1984 film

Eligible info. Roger Cobb Steve Martin is a swinging bachelor who is a lawyer but would rather be a jazz musician. Edwina Cutwater Lily Tomlin is an ailing spinster who is given a second chance at life given her soul can be "transported" into that of a another woman - specifically, the beautiful daughter of the stable hand. Unfortunately, the guru-in-charge goofs, and Edwina's soul winds up taking over the entire right side of Roger, who now must learn to cope with being half the man he was. Now Edwina and Roger are living together in the same body. He's losing his job. He's losing his girlfriend. And he just can't seem to get her out of his system. No matter how hard he tries. I savor every moment. Steve Martin is a genius and his physical humor is spot on and his "multiple personality" dialogue cleverly smart and hilarious.

They discuss "the m word" briefly, but Roger seems disinterested in marriage. Believing the flush causes the ringing, the curious Prahka operates the lever until the ringing stops when Roger hangs up.

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Begin with a nutty situation, establish the rules, and follow them. The laughs happen when ordinary human nature comes into conflict with ridiculous developments. We can identify with almost all of the motives of the characters in "All of Me. There is the unhappy lawyer Roger Cobb Steve Martin , who is desperately unhappy with his work and will do anything to get a promotion -- even cater to nut-case clients like Edwina. There is the evil Terry Hoskins Victoria Tennant , who plans to cruelly deceive Edwina, and there is the beatific Prahka Lasa Richard Libertini , who hopes to transfer Edwina's soul into a brass pot, and then insert it in Miss Hoskins's body. There is, however, a terrible psychic miscalculation, and when Edwina dies, she transmigrates instead into Cobb's body. When I heard "All of Me" described, I couldn't think of any way this plot could possibly work. To begin with, why put one of my favorite comedians, Tomlin, inside Martin, a man whose movies I have not admired? And yet it does work.

All of me 1984 film

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At the hotel, Prahka is out of his element, having lived his entire life in Tibet with no luxuries, but he discovers the toilet and flushes it just as Roger places the phone call, and the phone in the other room rings. Having discovered she is dying, Edwina has enlisted the aid of a culture-shocked mystic named Prahka Lasa Richard Libertini , who has mastered the secret of transferring human souls. Damn, she's really good! However, "How dare you say 'penis' to a dead person" is truly one of the funniest lines ever. They discuss "the m word" briefly, but Roger seems disinterested in marriage. Wouldn't hurt to try and find it. Watch Official Trailer. Fighter Simon Abrams. And apologies, in my haste as with too many mornings , for the use of the word "cavil," which not only has connotations but denotation of petty objection and worse, when of course I meant to suggest that all your criticisms struck me as utterly valid. Roger reluctantly agrees to take the case. For one thing, her reflection can be seen in mirrors, and there is some exquisite timing involved in the way they play scenes with each other's mirror images.

For more information, visit the contribution bible. Just before stubborn millionaire Edwina Cutwater dies, she asks her uptight lawyer, Roger Cobb, to amend her will so that her soul will pass to the young, vibrant Terry Hoskins — but the spiritual transference goes awry.

Running time. If you want some good clean Create account. On the way to the office, Roger and his canine companion Bix stop by a corner where their blind musician buddy Tyrone Wattell Jason Bernard is playing his saxophone for tips. Roger Ebert January 01, On her deathbed, Edwina now wants to deed her entire estate to Terry Hoskins, the beautiful adult daughter of her stableman, Fred Hoskins. However, something goes wrong, and she finds herself in her lawyer's body - together with the lawyer. Roger arrives to see Edwina in her wheelchair ordering her staff around, and she treats him as if he were a hired hand. Roger flees and pours the water into a pitcher, which he gives to Tyrone for safekeeping. Edwina says he is better off not being a lawyer who works against the ideals his family instilled in him, and while married to a woman like Peggy, but he is furious at his unraveled life. He's losing his girlfriend.