Release Date: Jan 1, 1989 Wide
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American humorist Jules Feiffer and French director Alain Resnais are oddly paired for this satirical comedy about an American cartoonist in Paris. Adolph Green is a stunner as Joey Wellman, a cantankerous American cartoonist traveling abroad for the first time. In tow is Lena Apthrop (Linda Lavin), and the two are ostensibly journeying to Paris to attend a comic-strip exhibition in which Wellman's work is included. But it turns out the exhibition is just an excuse for Wellman to track down his
Unrated, 1 hr. 45 min.
Jan 1, 1989 Wide
Feb 19, 2008
All Critics (3) | Fresh (0) | Rotten (4) | DVD (1)
Resnais and Feiffer make for an odd pairing, as their satire falls almost flat on its face because it lacks wit, charm and sensibility.
The film never ceases to be obnoxious.
"I much prefer Daffy Duck to Donald Duck." Finally a pensée I can get behind.
I Want to Go Home has a splenetic oddball quality at odds with the evanescent tendencies of Alain Resnais' later films.
What a mess. Resnais must have been drunk when he made this. A satire about American-French relations with a bizarre cast. Adolph Green gives one of the most obnoxious performances ever as an American cartoonist who goes to Paris to visit his estranged daughter. Depardieu can't speak proper English. The film
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