Review of I'm Not Rappaport (1996) by Tony P — 13 Jul 2007

This is one of my all time favourite movies. Adapted from Herb Gardners Tony-Award winning play. This film tells the story of Nat Moyer (Matthau) a congenital yet congenial liar and Midge Carter (Davis) a maintenance man struggling to keep his job. This is a definate all-rounder, it makes you laugh cry and think. Matthau is really on form in this. There arn't many better examples of perfect comic timing than his performance. Davis is equally excellent. His fear of being thought a useless old man is both well portrayed and a very real fear many elderly people have. Matthau on the other hand shows no fear. His need to challenge everyone and anything about the most minor injustices often creates conflict. Ultimately this film is about friendship, about growing old and about the fear that person we want to be is not the person we are.

Nat: "I was one person for the first eighty years. Why not a hundred for the next five?".