Something Short of Paradise
Something Short of Paradise ★½ 1979 (PG)
The owner of a Manhattan movie theatre has an on again/off again romance with a magazine writer. Would-be Allenesque romantic comedy is too talky and pretentious. 87m/C VHS, DVD . David Steinberg, Susan Sarandon, Jean-Pierre Aumont, Marilyn Sokol; D: David Helpern; W: Fred Barron.
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