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Cinema: Fidgets at 40

MIDDLE AGE CRAZY Directed by John Trent Screenplay by Carl Kleinschmitt

Is there anything more tedious than someone else's mid-life crisis? The answer, sadly, is yes. It is a movie about that familiar anguish made without a trace of humor, intelligence, originality or perspective. To put the matter more sim ply, Middle Age Crazy more than lives up to its blunt and witless title.

It seems almost pointless to describe the plot. Anyone who has not been lost in a galaxy far, far away for the past decade or so could describe it sight unseen....

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