... IT'S A LIFT FOR THE SPIRITS
Twelve-year-old Nick lives with his Uncle Murray, a Mr.Micawber-like Dickensian character who keeps hoping something won't turn up. What turns up is a social worker, who falls in love with Murray and a bit in love with Nick. As the child welfare people try to force Murray to become a conventional man (as the price they demand for allowing him to keep Nick), the nephew, who until now has gloried in his Uncle's iconoclastic approach to life, tries to play mediator. But when he succeeds, he is alarmed by the uncle's willingness to cave in to society in order to save the relationship.
Directed byFred Coe
- Status
- Released
- Runtime
- 1h 58m
- Language
- EN
- Released
- December 13, 1965
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Jason Robards
Murray
Barry Gordon
Nick
Barbara Harris
Sandra
Martin Balsam
Arnold
Gene Saks
Leo
William Daniels
Albert Amundsen
John McMartin
The Man in the Office
Philip Bruns
The Man in the Restaurant
- Directed by
- Fred Coe
- Written by
- Herb Gardner
- Produced by
- Fred Coe
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