A brain surgeon marries a femme fatale, causing his life to turn upside down. Things go more awry when he falls in love with a talking brain.
Writer/Director: Carl Reiner
Writers: George Gipe, Steve Martin & CR
Stars: Steve Martin, Kathleen Turner, David Warner, Sissy Spacek (voice).
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0085894/
Bought in my quest to acquire writer/performer works by SM. Watched on a double disc with My Blue Heaven ('90). Maybe it's this film or maybe 2 SM's was just too much.
I didn't warm up to SM, wasn't supposed to like KT. I didn't understand why she was hot for young buff men but didn't allow SM his conjugal privileges. Was his surgeon's income really sufficient to have attracted her? He didn't inherit big bucks until after their marriage.
The method of death was very specific for DW's brains to be viable, yet he has more than a dozen of them. His method for transplanting the personality from the brain to a body is non-surgical, so why did he bring SM into his lab? And was the brain that talked to SM really his deceased wife? How did she die again?
Yeah, I'm not entertained; I'm analyzing too much. Maybe it'll seem better next time.
Warner & more, dir. Reiner; 6
