So Fine

Trying to recreate the screwball comedy success of his collaborations with Peter Bogdanovitch, actor Ryan O'Neal headlined this sporadically funny mixture of light farce and social satire. O'Neal stars as Bobby, an intellectual English professor who leaves his job when his father Jack (Jack Warden) ...more

Writer/director Andrew Bergman hadn't yet found his stride when he fashioned -- for lack of a better word -- this raunchy screwball farce. Very much in line with the late-'70s hangover zeitgeist that inspired such adult-excess comedies as Arthur, Carbon Copy, The Woman in Red, and S.O.B., and the rest of Blake Edwards' output at the time, So Fine trades in unsophisticated puns and would-be trenchant satire with varying degrees of success. Though the irreverent premise might have struck a chord ...more