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Festivale online magazine, April, 1998 For Richer or Poorer movie review

For Richer or Poorer What we like to see (Hollywood thinks) is that the really, really, rich are really, really unhappy. We also like to see (Hollywood thinks) the really, really rich finding out how the other 97% live. Remember Maid to Order? "Some maids deserve to be princesses, some princesses deserve to be maids". And so we have everyone from Joan Rivers to Dolly Parton ruining their facials in the kitchen and facing down the winsome glances of rug rats. In For Richer or Poorer, Tim Allen and Kirstie Alley face leave behind charge cards, air kissing and executive toys when fleeing from accountant-induced tax fraud charges. Didn’t Moonlighting start with that?

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Although there is nothing new in the scenario, rich people find real life and real love in the real kindness of strangers/simple folk and simple blessings, the great tax evasion chase scene is possibly the high point of the film. Our hero is by a series of coincidences and civil servant over-reactions fleeing from a gun-toting IRS legend in a stolen taxi. As the scene builds, encountering his wife is ‘just perfect’, the timing and development is so good, that worse and worse and more and more unbelievable is, frankly, absolutely credible and inevitable. This is hard to write, so the scripters should be congratulated. If you have never smelled a mud-floored pig pen, you can't appreciate the courage it took for Kirstie Alley to appear in this scene from For Richer or Poorer Some of the subsequent learning-to-be-Amish scenes are a bit wince-worthy, but when you have two really physical comedians, slapstick evocation is to be expected. Ultimately the clash of cultures ends with the Amish learning from the Sextons and the Sextons learning from the Amish. Whether you enjoy this film or not depends on how broad you like your comedy, and how heavily underscored you like your lessons.

	Ali Kayn See also: Tim's review For credits and official site details, click here. Search Festivale for more
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Enter movie, TV show, or person   Provided by Internet Movie Database.	Just the facts: Title: For Richer or Poorer (1998) Written by: Jana Howington & Steve Lukanic Directed by: Bryan Spicer Produced by: Richard Baker, Rick Messina, Gayle Fraser Baigelman Edited by: Russell Denove Director of Photography: Buzz Feitshans IV
	The Players: Kirstie Alley, Tim Alley
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