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Melvin and Howard
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Melvin and Howard
(1980)
Melvin and Howard
generally has a place in my top ten movies. It is the story of how multi-millionaire Howard Hughes left $156 million to a magnesium bag packer, milk delivery man, and gas station attendant named Melvin Dummar—or maybe the will was a forgery. Jason Robarts plays a lonely and complex Howard whom Melvin rescues from a desert motorcycle accident. Mary Steenburgen is wonderful as Melvin’s ditzy wife who criticizes him for being an impractical dreamer while she keeps leaving him and supporting herself in strip clubs. Besides the excellent performances, the movie is driven by an earnest desire to give the real Melvin his due, as the movie was shot on-site in
Nevada
,
California
, and
Utah
. Ultimately, this warm, charming, sad, and funny movie is about being working poor in
America
. It should ring true today. In the 1960s the average CEO of a company earned about 35 times as much as the person on the factory floor; today a CEO earns about 1,000 times as much.
posted on Thursday, May 03, 2007 2:37 AM by
JimBell
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