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So I Married an Axe Murderer
A man afraid of commitment suspects that his current girlfriend is the serial spouse-killer he has read about in the Weekly World News. Apart from his besetting phobia, the protagonist is gravely ill-defined: it's hard to reconcile his apparent wit and charm with his professional self as a throwback beat poet who sounds in performance like a cross between Jerry Lewis and Frank Sinatra. But it may just be that Mike Myers, of TV's Saturday Night Live, is an unsteady straight comic. (In contrast to gross caricaturist, as in his second role here, a chauvinistic Scotsman and the hero's embarrassing father.) Alan Arkin and Charles Grodin show, in small parts, how it's supposed to be done. And Nancy Travis is attractively winsome, but not uncomplicated, as the girlfriend. With Anthony LaPaglia, Brenda Fricker, Amanda Plummer; directed by Thomas Schlamme. 1993.
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MPAA Rating: PG-13
