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Directed by PETER MEDAK Screenplay by PETER BARNES...
Directed by PETER MEDAK Screenplay by PETER NICHOLS...
...good run in both London and Manhattan, Joe Egg was written by Peter Nichols, himself the father of a spastic child. Boisterous and harrowing, it is a macabre tour de force. But Nichols' adaptation for the screen is stubbornly stagebound, and the young Hungarian director Peter Medak does nothing to liberate it. The film seems forced and artificial, and the bilious lighting makes it look as if it had been staged inside a plastic showcase...