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Melvin and Howard

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Melvin and Howard
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R,1hr 35min
Genre:
Comedy
Released:
January 1, 1980
Director:
Jonathan Demme
Distributor:
Anchor Bay
Starring:
Paul Le Mat, Jason Robards, Jr., Mary Steenburgen  ...more
Synopsis: Jonathan Demme's breakthrough movie featured the shaggy energy and affection for marginal American eccentrics that marked his earlier Citizens Band (1977) and such later films as Something Wild (1986) and Married to the Mob (1988). Melvin Dummar (Paul LeMat) is a barely-getting-by Nevada milkman. One day in the early 1970s, while driving down a lonely highway, Melvin picks up a shaggy, bearded bum (Jason Robards Jr.) and offers him a ride into town. Melvin gives the bum a quarter at the end of the ... Full Synopsis
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Michael Betzold, AMG Review
One critic called Jonathan Demme's wistful, strange comedy "an almost flawless act of sympathetic imagination" and compared it to Jean Renoir directing a script by Preston Sturges. Actually, it was the fertile imagination of screenwriter Bo Goldman that concocted the story of Melvin Dummar (Paul LeMat), a Nevada milkman who picks up reclusive billionaire hitchhiker Howard Hughes (Jason Robards Jr.). ... Full Review
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Paul Le Mat
Melvin Dummar
Jason Robards, Jr.
Howard Hughes
Mary Steenburgen
Lynda Dummar
Jack Kehoe
Jim Delgado
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