Foul Play (1978)
Directed by Colin Higgins
A shy San Francisco librarian and a bumbling cop fall in love as they solve a crime involving albinos, dwarves, and the Catholic Church.
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Somebody killed Harlan, and while Benoit Blanc is on the case, ("I suspect," Craig drawls in Benoit Blanc's wonderfully ridiculous Southern accent, " foul play "), Knives Out quickly spirals into unexpected territory.
Working the case brings Mullins and Ashburn into contact with a series of crackpots and weirdos, an albino D.E.A agent (played by Dan Bakkedahl; "You look evil as shit," comments Mullins, a conscious callback to the albino villain in "Foul Play", seen on a television earlier in the film), a nasty drug addict named Tatiana (the hilarious Kaitlin Olson , who only has one scene, and kills it), and an exhausted white-haired police sergeant who says, "This job is destroying me.
The mom is Goldie Hawn, 71, who made a career out of playing ditzes with hidden reserves of pluck (“Foul Play,” “Private Benjamin”), while the daughter is Amy Schumer, 35, whose chosen persona is the big-city girl with hidden depths of insecurity (“Trainwreck”).
She was so adorable when she was younger, especially in "Foul Play" (1978) and "Private Benjamin" (1980), her best.
The trouble is, “Snatched” really is a return to form — it goes right back to the knockabout synthetic spirit of such cheeseball Goldie Hawn comedies as “Foul Play,” “Overboard,” and “Bird on a Wire.”
I saw two scenes that were very close replicas of scenes in her previous films: her hyperventilating anxiety attack in 1980’s “Seems Like Old Times” and the part in 1978’s “Foul Play” where she is kidnapped and prostrate in a locked room.
Hawn has elevated similarly throwaway material throughout her career (“Foul Play,” “ Overboard ,” “Bird on a Wire”), and it’s certainly lovely to see her again, but why come out of retirement for this?