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Where’s Poppa?

Name: Where’s Poppa?
Genre: Comedy
Released: 1970-11-10
Duration: 82 min
Rating: 6.05

★ 6,1 /10 (50 Votes)

1970 EN 82 min

Overview

When New York attorney Gordon Hocheiser meets Louise Callan, the girl of his dreams, he schemes to eliminate his aging, senile mother, even though he promised his late father that he'd always take care of her. He fears that his batty mom's eccentricities will shortly lead to Louise's departure.

Stream

Release date

10/11/1970

Votes

Popularity

1.7

The tush scene alone is worth the price of admission.

Genres

Comedy

Status

Released

Language

Runtime

82 min

Budget

$1,000,000

George Segal

Gordon Hocheiser

Ruth Gordon

Mrs. Hocheiser

Ron Leibman

Sidney Hocheiser

Trish Van Devere

Louise Callan

Barnard Hughes

Colonel Hendricks

Vincent Gardenia

Coach Williams

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Rae Allen

Gladys Hocheiser

Paul Sorvino

Owner of Gus & Grace's Home

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William LeMassena

Judge

Michael McGuire

Army Lawyer

Rob Reiner

Roger

Garrett Morris

Garrett

Alice Drummond

Woman in Elevator

Tom Atkins

Policeman in apartment

Original Soundtrack

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I definitely would have tightened the slack pace of this--it seems perhaps 15 or 20 minutes too long, and really lags in spots--but it has some really excellent ideas and, in its basic underlying tenet of adult siblings trying to take care of their elderly parents, yet at the same time having fulfilling lives of their own, remains unfortunately very timely. I'm NOT a George Segal fan in the slightest (in both his previous roles in 'Ship of Fools' and 'Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf', he seems to think that simply by screaming at someone, that it inherently means 'range' and 'intensity'), but h…

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