'The In-Laws': How a shmendrik dentist and crazy CIA agent share a mid-life crisis
Welcome to The Reel Schmooze with ToI film reviewer Jordan Hoffman and host Amanda Borschel-Dan, where we bring you all the entertainment news and film reviews a Jew can use.
Continuing in our decade-by-decade comedy viewing, this week's featured Schmooze film is "The In-Laws."
The 1979 comedic adventure stars the great Jewish actors Alan Arkin playing dentist Sheldon "Shelly" Kornpett and Peter Falk as Vince Ricardo, a loose-cannon CIA agent who initially poses as an eccentric businessman.
The script's outlandish premise sees the soon-to-be in-laws travel to "Tijata," a small island south of…
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