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Successful playwright Al Pacino can't get any work done as long as he is pestered by his wacko wife Tuesday Weld. Making things worse are the couple's obstreperous children, many of them products of her previous marriages. Just as Pacino is completing his latest work, his wife walks out on him. ...more

Author! Author! strives to be both a heartwarming domestic comedy about single fatherhood and a barbed show business satire. On the domestic front Travalian (Al Pacino) has a brood of five children, four of them from his wife's former marriages. When she finally leaves him, he alone must care for these kids he loves as if they were his own. As for work, Travalian's new play is running into production and rewrite problems. Although this material has been done to death in other films, Alan King ...more