SummaryJealous, harried air traffic controller Max Fiedler (Chevy Chase), recently dumped by his girlfriend (Patti D'Arbanville), comes into contact with nuclear waste and is granted the power of telekinesis, which he uses not only to win her back, but to gain a little revenge.
Directed By:Ken Shapiro
Written By:Ken Shapiro, Tom Sherohman, Arthur Sellers
Modern Problems
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27
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TWENTIETH Century-Fox knew exactly what it was doing when it decided to open Modern Problems at theaters all over New York on Christmas Day, without advance screenings for the press. It's not that Modern Problems is so bad, though it is incredibly sloppy.
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Any chance the film might have had is trashed at the outset by Chase's disengaged style of non- acting and blas approach to pants-dropping. [28 Dec 1981]
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The humor is forced.
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A round of misfires from title to denouement, the new comedy "Modern Problems" is a modern problem for moviegoers: the latest rummy example of that strange abomination, the unfunny "fun" movie, victimized by utter confusion about its genre, tone and audience. [30 Dec 1981, p.B6]
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Oct 15, 2019
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This is just extremely bad. The movie has now flow or purpose. It's boring and nonsensical. The characters behave nothing like real people. And it's not funny.
