Younger and Younger (1993)

Great Britain released, PAL/Region 2 DVD: it WILL NOT play on standard US DVD player. You need multi-region PAL/NTSC DVD player to view it in USA/Canada. Languages:o English (Dolby Digital 2.0) Synopsis:Jonathan Younger (Donald Sutherland) runs his offbeat storage facility as if it were an odd amalgam of a nightclub for the rich and famous and a pied a terre for The Addams Family. He greets each customer and potential customer with the flair and sinister graciousness of Bela Lugosi at the door of Castle Dracula. From time to time, mysterious organ music audibly emanates from the basement. His wife (Lolita Davidovich) has the messy business of making sure that this very ordinary business pays the bills. Both of them are hoping that their son (Brendan Fraser) will come back from his pricey college studies in England and take over the business. Things take a sharp left turn when some of his customers become media celebrities, suspected of killing the man in their family. This quirky black comedy was made by the director of the sublimely zany Baghdad Cafe. Special Features:o Scene Access Product Description

Dull as dirt

"Younger and Younger" is a bizarre and irksome movie.
Jonathan Younger appears to be a successful businessman, but actually depends on his unappreciated wife, Penny, to do all the work. Jonathan manages to get around, and one day when Penny hears him having an affair, she dies on the office floor (sounds highly improbable to me). Jonathan is apathetic at first, but starts seeing the ghost of his wife everywhere he looks.
Meanwhile, Jonathan's son, Winston, comes home from Europe to help keep up the company. Winston is swamped by his new duties, and receives no help whatsoever from his daydreaming father.
Somewhere along the way, Winston gains a foreign girlfriend and Jonathan and Penny are finally united forever.
The plot is utterly ridiculous, and the director does not bother to explain several peculiar moments. This movie is ultimately boresome, and its only positive element is Brendan Fraser. July 7, 2003

My brother-in-law was in this!

My brother-in-law was in this movie. He doesn't talk, but he's one of the ball room dancers. Near the end of the movie he spins a girl and she falls to the floor... don't know if that was on purpose, but they kept it in... probably for comic relief becuase this was such a boring movie. I only watched it becuase he was in it. Brenden Frasier is adorable in it, but he always is!! January 16, 2001

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