Summary

Steve Martin plays an attorney dating the boss' daughter, who is also an aspiring jazz rhythm guitarist. Lily Tomlin is the dying, difficult, spoiled rotten millionairess who wants to make some unusual final arrangements. Martin is sent in to arrange her will, in which she wants to leave her vast fortune to Victoria Tennant, the stable-keepers' daughter, with the idea that a culture-shocked holy man can use a mystical bowl to allow Tennant's soul to leave, and her soul to enter. Steve Martin (right) with Scooter, on The Muppet Show Stephen Glenn Martin (born August 14, 1945) is an American comedian, writer, producer, actor, musician, and composer born in Waco, Texas and raised in Garden Grove, California. ... An attorney is someone who represents someone else in the transaction of business: For attorney-at-law, see lawyer, solicitor, barrister or civil law notary. ... Lily Tomlin Lily Tomlin (born Mary Jean Tomlin on September 1, 1939 in Detroit, Michigan), is an American actress and comedian. ...

The best laid plans, surprise, go awry and Martin ends up with Tomlin's character having control over the right side of his body and him the left. Martin pulls off the physical comedy with his usual panache, and the dialogue has the signature Martin touches of, take it in stride and roll with it flair so the premise works better than it might seem. Martin throws in lines like definitively declaring to his boss that he will focus on being a lawyer and proudly announcing "I'm going to buy a VEST." Tomlin plays the part well going from unsympathetic, to very sympathetic by the end. And Tennant, in her prime, plays the seemingly angelic, but devious gold-digger to the hilt.

One of the better Steve Martin movies which start with the premise of normalcy and highlight his reactions to unreasonable circumstances with trademark poise.