Movie Cosmos - Nobody's Fool

Description:

A rascally nearing-retirement man juggles a workers' compensation suit while secretly working for his nemesis and flirting with his nemesis' young wife. As his estranged son returns, he faces new family responsibilities, while a banker plots to evict him from his home.

Top Cast >

Paul Newman

As Sully Sullivan

Bruce Willis

As Carl Roebuck

Melanie Griffith

As Toby Roebuck

Jessica Tandy

As Beryl Peoples

Dylan Walsh

As Peter Sullivan

Pruitt Taylor Vince

As Rub Squeers

Gene Saks

As Wirf Wirfley

Josef Sommer

As Clive Peoples Jr.

Philip Seymour Hoffman

As Officer Raymer

Philip Bosco

As Judge Flatt

Catherine Dent

As Charlotte Sullivan

Alexander Goodwin

As Will Sullivan

Carl J. Matusovich

As Wacker Sullivan

Jay Patterson

As Jocko

Jerry Mayer

As Ollie Quinn

Angela Pietropinto

As Cass

Alice Drummond

As Hattie

Margo Martindale

As Birdy

Angelica Page

As Ruby

Richard Mawe

As Ralph

Joe Paparone

As Rufus

Shannah Laumeister Stern

As Didi

John Leighton

As Funeral Director

Kenneth Frawley

As Horace Yaney

John Marcus Powell

As Whit

Frank W. Inness

As Garbage Man

Page Johnson

As C. W. Lomax

William Raymond Calhoun

As Vernon

Bob Heitman

As Lawyer from Albany

Drenda Spohnholtz

As Girl at the Country Club

Gerry Robert Byrne

As Charlie

Anibal O. Lleras

As Juror (uncredited)

Elizabeth Wilson

As Vera (uncredited)

Top Crew >

Robert Benton

Director, Screenplay

Dan Davis

Art Direction

Joseph G. Aulisi

Costume Design

Larry McConkey

Steadicam Operator

Robin Squibb

Script Supervisor

Ellen Chenoweth

Casting

Richard Russo

Novel

Gretchen Rau

Set Decoration

John Bloom

Editor

Howard Shore

Original Music Composer

Kerry Hayes

Still Photographer

Scott Rudin

Producer

John Bailey

Director of Photography

Michael Hausman

Executive Producer

David Gropman

Production Design

Jonathan Herron

Camera Operator

Arlene Donovan

Producer

Sandy Hamilton

Property Master

Roy Farfel

Stunts

Melinda Sue Gordon

Still Photographer

Peter Bucossi

Stunt Coordinator

Reviews:

Peter McGinn (9/10)

This is one of those classic films I would never put on a ten-best movie list, but I do include it in my ten favorite comedy movie list. (Favoritisms, not Best.) I read the book it is based on, written by Richard Russo. I thought the first half of the book was great, with witty dialogue, some of which is in the movie. But the second half of the book dragged for me. Not so with the movie. They didn’t take their ending to the same place, and I can’t fault that choice.

Paul Newman is effortlessly great in this, and he has a superb supporting cast. Jessica Tandy, Melanie Griffith and Bruce Willis head up the ensemble cast. They even have a young Philip Seymour Hoffman, in my opinion one of the best actors ever at disappearing into a role. And since it fun to have a movie take place in New England that isn’t a Stephen King story?!

You know, the thing about writing reviews on these great movies from the past is that it makes me want to see them again.

2020-08-12