Where’s Poppa? 1970 123movies

Watch: Where’s Poppa? 1970 123movies, Full Movie Online – 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..
Plot: 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.
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Ratings:

	6.5/10 Votes: 2,120
	82% | RottenTomatoes
	N/A | MetaCritic
	N/A Votes: 32 Popularity: 3.626 | TMDB

Reviews:

Once Upon a Time there was a school of American Black Comedy
…and it produced some low budget, but VERY memorable films. The genre seems to have been based around New York City. Most of them owe more than a little bit to the ’60s vintage British version of Cinema Verite expressed in films like A TASTE OF HONEY and THE L SHAPED ROOM… and further back yet to the French films like THE 400 BLOWS.

The Americans added humor to the mix.

LITTLE MURDERS, THE PRODUCERS, and THEY MIGHT BE GIANTS were some of the better known products. They were made by directors and actors who had huge amounts of enthusiasm, social commentary crying out to be expressed, and intelligence… but not a whole mountain of money to put their visions on film.

They spun off major studio products with big name actors and production values like A NEW LEAF, HAROLD AND MAUDE, and PETE ‘N TILLIE.

Enter WHERE’S PAPPA?… one of the “transition” films, firmly between the “No budget” New York stuff, and the later “Low Budget” Hollywood productions that they spawned.

Like MOST of the genre, WHERE’S PAPPA? takes on a sacred cow… dealing with older, dependent relatives (in this case, the hero’s mother), and saying the things about it that we ALL think but DON’T DARE say out loud for fear of being thought a monster. In this case, we wrestle with the decision to put Mama into a nursing home. A hard choice… but it has it’s comic aspects, which get explored fully.

George Siegel does a GREAT job in the lead, the perfect foil for Ruth Gordon. Ron Liebman’s a standout as Siegel’s brother. As in his roles in UP THE ACADEMY and WON TON TON, THE DOG WHO SAVED Hollywood, Liebman shows off a deft skill in handling comedic material.

Incidentally… look for Garrett Morris from the original Saturday NIGHT LIVE crew as a mugger in Central Park!

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BTW… I’m editing this review after the fact, because I made an interesting discovery about the film.

There are at least TWO DIFFERENT VERSIONS of it out there.

Having watched the TV version for a long time, when I recently came up with a copy of the Laserdisc version I was startled to see that the ending on the disc is completely different, and somewhat longer!

In a totally unsettling and quite uncomfortable way, it completely reverses the commonly seen ending’s decision and solution to the story’s central problem… and today, it would probably earn an R rating… if it’s implications didn’t get the original ending CENSORED, that is! The Freudian hints left a bad taste for me… I can see exactly WHY the filmmakers changed it.

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If irreverence is your bag, you’ll enjoy WHERE’S POPPA?

I appreciate Reiner’s attempt to make a tasteless film…too bad it’s just not that funny
George Segal lives with his elderly and senile mother. There are many jokes about her Alzheimer’s-like dementia and most of them aren’t funny, though there were a few funny moments sprinkled in here and there (such as the nude running through the park scene and the old folks home). At first, Segal tries to kill his mother because she’s tough to live with and because he’s a selfish guy. Making the film sort of like a Wiley Coyote versus the Roadrunner comedy where he tries again and again to kill this indestructible gal would have been a hoot–too bad this was NOT the overall tone of the film.

I do applaud Carl Reiner’s attempt to make a tasteless film that is intended to offend everyone. I have a special place in my heart for films like ED AND HIS DEAD MOTHER, EATING RAOUL and HAPPINESS OF THE KATAKURIS–all films about death that dare to offend. The problem here, though, is that WHERE’S POPPA? has some funny moments, but it also has a lot of flat ones and the overall product is amazingly bland. Plus topics such as homosexual rape, incest and the like are really difficult to make funny. I read in “THE ROUGH GUIDE TO CULT MOVIES” that it is considered a cult film, though I just can’t see anyone wanting to see this more than once.

Other Information:

Original Language en
Runtime 1 hr 22 min (82 min)
Budget 0
Revenue 0
Status Released
Rated R
Genre Comedy
Director Carl Reiner
Writer Robert Klane
Actors George Segal, Ruth Gordon, Ron Leibman
Country United States
Awards 2 nominations
Production Company N/A
Website N/A

Technical Information:

Sound Mix Mono (Westrex Recording System)
Aspect Ratio 1.85 : 1
Camera N/A
Laboratory DeLuxe (color by)
Film Length N/A
Negative Format 35 mm
Cinematographic Process Spherical
Printed Film Format 35 mm