SEE NO EVIL, HEAR NO EVIL (1989) ** It's a nice little film with a bad reputation because the stars have done much better. Not a masterpiece, but it has a lot of humanity to it, for a madcap comedy. I'm not sure how much it helps to have Gene Wilder be deaf, or Richard Pryor to be blind, but they're both projecting some pain from life and so maybe that was a good way to do it. Gone are the days of insane laughter, and with them it feels like a lot of hope. But they're still funny, but maybe their strong point has become inner strength. I don't know. I enjoy watching them. They're more than movie stars, they're guys you care about. Running around caught up in a bad situation. Is there more heroism in laughing madly as a youth, or wryly as a relatively disillusioned older man? I don't know. Of course how bad can it really be when the worst of it (in the film, not real life), is that Joan Severance is out to get them? That '80s Manhattan chic really suits her.
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