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Anonymous
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68.32.115.x | posted: 4/14/2003 at 6:17:28 PM ET
Michael Douglas was on the ABC Morning Show this morning(don't know what it's called)--and he actually mentioned that Bernadette played his wife! (He and Kirk will be on tomorrow, as well; don't know what time, but it was the 8:00am-8:30am segment today).
Kirk and Cameron will be on Charlie Rose tonight--don't know when it airs where everyone lives.
Jean
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Anonymous
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66.134.207.x | posted: 4/14/2003 at 9:00:24 PM ET
The ABC show was Good Morning America. His interviews seem to follow a pattern of first talk about Catherine, the Oscar, the baby, finding a script that he and his dad could do after 9/11, casting his son, and then casting his mother. I think Bernadette's name got mentioned this time cuz Diane Sawyer asked about their not being any roles for third cousins or something.
PTM
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Broadwaybabe027
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I FINALLY saw the trailer tonight on t.v. I can't wait for the movie to open!!
Dana
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Bwaybaby
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Kirk Douglas will be on the Wayne Brady Show on 4/28 
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bernadette
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for those who haven't caught the trailer yet, if you type in "it runs in the family" and make sure its on "title" (you'll understand when you see it!) and then select trailer at the side of the screen. the rest is pretty easy to work out when you're there!
they say bernadette's wonderful..........and she is
xx Jenny xx
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Bwaybaby
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They movie is expected to open with a moderately wide release( meaning it will begin playing in about 1,100 theatres). The running time for the movie is 1 hr 49 mins
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Also, if you'd like to see a cute scene with Bernadette click here: ( it might not work for everybody)http://mediaframe.yahoo.com/launch?lid=rnv-56-p.1181842-106993,rnv-100-p.1181843-106993,rnv-300-p.1181844-106993,wmv-56-p.1181845-106993,wmv-100-p.1181846-106993,wmv-300-p.1181847-106993&p=movies&f=1808405927
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what a cute little scene! it reminds me of how i can't wait for the movie to be released already!
lisa
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mikee
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That scene is very cute!
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yeah, a very sweet family scene and I can see why the working title was "smack in the kisser" and "family jewels". lol. anyhoo, when I was watching BBC 2 yesterday waiting for "barefoot in the park" to come on, this programme called "talking movies" was on! and guess which premiere they were at!!! Yup! they didn't sho bernadette at all at the premiere and didn't even mention her (when they'd just about mentioned everyone else even CZJ!) but she was shown in quite a few clips! For someone who won't get to see the movie (at least for a while) I was V.happy!!!
they say bernadette's wonderful..........and she is
xx Jenny xx
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Bwaybaby
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There is a full page add for IT RUN SIN THE FAMILY in today's NY Times 
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152.163.189.x | posted: 4/21/2003 at 12:06:01 AM ET
Don't know if anyone has posted about this yet, but there's a clip with Bernadette and Michael at Yahoo Movies. Search under the title of the film and select the one titled "Comfortable" There's a review in the Hollywood Reporter that's not too favorable -- did say that the cast was proficient but didn't discuss performances in detail.
PTM
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| posted: 4/22/2003 at 10:43:06 PM ET
Here's another link to some clips. Most of them are the same but there is one called "Sewing Machine" that features Bernadette. Hadn't seen that one before.
http://movies.go.com/movies/I/itrunsinthefamily_2003/index.html#
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3/10/2001 | posted: 4/22/2003 at 10:54:22 PM ET
As I recall,that scene is of Rebecca( Bernadette) & Alex's( Michael) wedding anniversary dinner. They originally had him giving her like 5 $20 gift certificates to the movies. It was a very funny scene!
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64.12.96.x | posted: 4/23/2003 at 1:19:44 AM ET
Here's a review from Daily Variety by Robert Koehler
Though the headline on any story about "It Runs in the Family" would doubtless refer to son Michael and father Kirk Douglas co-starring together for the first time, more notable is how director Fred Schepisi steers what could have been a trite family comedy toward thoughtful moods and nuances. Resulting pic uneasily pivots between comedy and drama, with its best parts strongly reminiscent of Schepisi's previous, British-made drama about aging and dying buddies, "Last Orders." In his biggest role since his stroke (albeit one customized for him), Kirk maintains a movie star's second sense for dominating the screen. Pic pitches to all age groups, but slow pace and deliberately non-sensational tone makes this an easier entree for older auds, likely to deliver medium-level B.O. in wide release.
In a Jewish upper-middle-class professional Manhattan family setting that Woody Allen long ago made archetypal, pic is so averse to eccentricities by anyone under 70 years old that the fact lawyer husband Alex (Michael) and shrink wife Rebecca Gromberg (Bernadette Peters) have converted a loft into a home is seen as radical. So is the way their youngest son Eli (Rory Culkin) asks for a raise in allowance by issuing a personal expense report. Equally troubling is eldest son Asher's (Cameron Douglas) permanently glazed-over look, a sign that he is -- horrors -- smoking pot.
Pic introduces family members individually, moving from one to the other like items at a buffet. Patriarch Mitchell (Kirk) suffered a stroke a year before and retired from the law firm he founded (and where Alex works serving sleazy corporate clients). Mitchell is trying to adjust to a slower pace with wife Evelyn (Diana Douglas).
Eli is attracted to, but intimidated by, bad-girl classmate Abby (Irene Gorovaia), while Asher's habit of dozing in lit class is just one of several turn-offs for smart, winsome classmate Peg (Michelle Monaghan). Alex's progressive side emerges as he takes a pro-bono case and volunteers at a soup kitchen, where he's bombarded with the super-aggressive flirting of randy co-worker Suzie (Sarita Choudhury).
The clan comes together for its annual Passover seder, which Schepisi stages with enough breadth to allow for some improv, giving realism to the endless clashes and needling between Mitchell and Alex. Alex says his dad is "a ball-buster" who just can't enunciate as well as he used to. Mitchell's senile older brother Stephen (Mark Hammer) makes strange sounds and breaks wind during the main course, but much like the film overall, his character falls uneasily somewhere between being the butt of jokes and a sympathetic portrait of fragile old age.
"It Runs in the Family" admirably wants to be generous to each family member, in terms of time and character development, but it never comes up with a strategy to make it all flow dramatically. One example is Asher, who shows Peg he likes her; but she's so repulsed by his stoner ways that romance seems hopeless. It happens nonetheless, and though both Cameron and Monaghan give it their all, the tryst beggars belief.
An unexpected death helps push the film toward some finely tuned dramatic levels, undermined by an overly mannered third act that has each family member in crisis mode on the same evening. It's here Peters has a bit more to play with as a wife who feels she's been cheated on, but her Rebecca -- despite her professional identity -- never seems to have a life of her own. A nod to Kirk's epic turn in "The Vikings" will tickle cinephiles.
The Douglas match is never exactly magical, but is best in the quiet moments when father and son use unspoken emotions to reveal a bit more than a standard family feud. Culkin, feeling and playing younger than his ultra-bratty "Igby Goes Down," shows his tender side this time.
Production package is as handsome as the upscale digs require.
PTM
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moljul
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| posted: 4/23/2003 at 2:54:24 PM ET
I just love that particular clip because of the look on her face when she realizes he has given her a sewing machine for an anniversary gift - It's a combination between laughing in his face and wanting to just smack him.
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