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Title: Self-indulgent baby boomers try to act cute.
Review: A mean-spirited celebration of narcissism. Midler and Farina, playing the divorced parents of Molly De Mora, (played by Paula Marshall) rekindle their romance at her wedding and selfishly ruin her honeymoon. Aw, but they love their daughter, so it's OK. All the characters except for Midler, Farina and Donna are stuck with thankless two-dimensional roles where they're forced to riff on their most pathological personality traits every time the camera is pointed at them. And though this is allegedly a "comedy," director Carl Reiner appears to have a political ax to grind, inserting partisan jabs at odd moments.
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