The Thing About My Folks

Supurb writing - acting and direction ....a realistic look at what makes life tick - the earlier you understand the message - the better chance for your own your life... Full review

This is a very funny movie with its charming actors and loving dialouge that had a few bumps but still became a fair film.... Full review

THIS MOVIE PARALLELED MY LIFE UP TO NOW. ALTHO I AM YOUNGER THAN MURIEL, MY CUURENT STATUS WITH CANCER IS ON HOLD. I CRIED AND LAUGHED THRU THE WHOLE MOVIE, JUST AS I DO IN MY LIFE. PAUL, YOU PUT ON... Full review

Personally, I can't imagine why the critics didn't like this one. It's one of the best movies I have seen in the past 10 years!... Full review

Finally a good story out of Hollywood. Unfortunately, it never was distributed widely but rent it, you will like it. I knew it was probably a pretty good show when I saw how the sophisticated professional critics panned it.... Full review

I happened upon this at HBO. Never heard of it. What a thrill. I had my husband watch it the next day. We both felt we could relate to every scene. Peter Falk is perfect and Paul Reiser is the best... Full review

I cried all the way through. Twenty years of therapy and I finally get it. I finally understand my father, my mother, their relationship and their relationship to us kids. Never a better movie was ever made--at least during my lifetime.... Full review

This movie was the perfect blend of comedy and a heartwarming drama. It's a nice step away from all the movies that feature so much violence and sex. Peter Falk is an unbelieavably talented actor and even though he's aged quite... Full review

Of course this is another one of those movies at the rental store where they only have 4 or 5 copies to rent. It makes no sense the week before there were 40 plus copies of Elizabethtown and for this film... Full review

I have two good things to say about this film: the scenery is beautiful and Peter Falk gives a good performance (considering what he had to work with in terms of dialog and direction). However, that said, I found this film... Full review

It's a feel good movie with two great performances from Reiser and Peter Falk .....The Thing About My Folks was light years better than I ever expected it could be.....Reiser and Falk are very good.....But that's my only gripe with what otherwise turned out to be a wonderful little movie.....But if you get the opportunity, I would recommend this film over most of the others that are coming out..... ... Full Review

legendary actor Peter Falk (THE INLAWS, "Columbo") and writer/actor Paul Reiser (DINER, "Mad About You") for a hilariously truthful look at family and marriage.....With its observational humor and sympathy for its characters flaws and follies, Thing About My Folks speaks to a universal experience of family as both screwy and sublime..... ... Full Review

The material also gives the talented supporting cast very little to do (in particular, Perkins and Dukakis are woefully underused).....Falk serves as the butt of some surprisingly crude humor here, including a series of painfully unfunny flatulence gags that appear throughout the movie.....Story continues below To be fair, Falk and Reiser do have a believable chemistry as father and son.....But a lot of the humor is forced and unfunny..... ... Full Review

Alongside its other pleasures, "The Thing About My Folks" provides audiences with the chance to watch Columbo pass gas. And despite stellar supporting players like Dukakis and Elizabeth Perkins, "The Thing About My Folks" is The Peter Falk Show, plain and simple. ... Full Review

The Thing About My Folks" is certainly a nice attempt at a family-dynamic comedy....However, the film falls flat when it should be soaring....To best appreciate "The Thing About My Folks," the viewer has to look at the film as a valentine from Paul Reiser to Peter Falk.....To help swallow the bitter medicine of watching a dysfunctional family, Reiser has stocked the film with cheap jokes.....The film means well.... ... Full Review

Touchingly fulfilling, and satisfyingly sentimental, THE THING ABOUT MY FOLKS provides down to earth home-style comedy, and a dramatic familiarity, that families everywhere are going to embrace. ... Full Article

Paul Reiser' s new film THE THING ABOUT MY FOLKS is a deeply personal venture for the actor/writer. The story came from the inspiration of his father and was always intended to star actor Peter Falk . ... Full Article

Reiser is mad about Dad in The Thing About My Folks , an infuriatingly bad tale of father-son bonding in which the writer/comedian's Ben Kleinman finds himself on a soul-searching road-trip in upstate New York with his old man Sam... ... Full Article

Who says old folks don't go to the movies?All too often, Hollywood does because the fans largely responsible for making a film open in first place are mostly in their teens and 20s. ... Full Article

P aul Reiser, who wrote, produced, and stars in the new film, The Thing About My Folks , calls it "a fictional story based on real Jews." ... Full Article

"The Thing About My Folks" teams two singular talents - legendary actor Peter Falk ("The Inlaws," "Columbo") and writer/actor Paul Reiser ("Diner," "Mad About You") for a hilariously truthful look at family and marriage. Directed by Raymond De Felitta, "The ... Full Article