That's Life!

Blake Edwards co-wrote and directed this seriocomedy about a couple of rich and famous Malibuans forced to re-examine their lives and values during a weekend party celebrating the husband's 60th birthday. Jack Lemmon and Julie Andrews star as Harvey and Gillian Fairchild. Harvey is a successful ...more

Although he is a wildly uneven director and writer, there's one thing Blake Edwards does exceptionally and consistently well: examine people whose sense of self is largely tied up in their material goods. Jack Lemmon's Harvey is one of these people, captured in That's Life at that moment when the power of material goods begins to betray him and he doesn't have the slightest idea how to handle this news. This is potentially the stuff of good, black satire, and there are some very funny isolated ...more