Synopsis
Charley is a surgeon who's recently lost his wife; he embarks on a tragicomic romantic quest with one woman after another until he meets up with Ann, a singular woman, closer to his own age, who immediately and unexpectedly captures his heart.
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Cast
- Walter MatthauDr. Charley Nichols
- Art CarneyDr. Amos Willoughby
- Richard BenjaminDr. Norman Solomon
- Candice AzzaraEllen Grady
- Dick O'NeillIrwin Owett
- Glenda JacksonAnn Atkinson
- Sally MarrMrs. Meyers
- Kedric WolfeFuneral director
- Gordon JumpDr. O'Brien
- Charles MatthauMichael Atkinson
Recommendations
- 80
Washington Post
Far from insipid, it's one of the funniest, and most affecting, movies to come around in a long time. The acting is polished, the writing superb. The jokes make you laugh. That's no small feat. [10 Mar 1978, p.15] - 50
The New York Times
Mr. Zieff seems never to have determined what sort of romance he wanted to show, and as a result the movie is constantly contradicting itself. - 50
Time Out
Background details of hospital life are handled much more astutely than the main plot. It's a big mystery how Zieff (of Slither and Hearts of the West) allowed it to go off at half-cock. - 50
TV Guide Magazine
A pleasant comedy, but any film starring Matthau and Jackson--and written by such funny men as Shulman and Epstein (among others)--should have been much funnier. - 40
Variety
Despite some horsepower casting, House Calls is overall a silly and uneven comedy about doctors which wants to be as macabre as, say, Hospital, and at the same time as innocuous as a TV sitcom. It manages to be neither.
