Cinema: Senescent Saint

Senescent Saint "Tell me, do you think your old man has slipped his trolley—that he belongs in a laughing academy?" The old man is Joseph P. Kotcher. the academy is an old folks home, and the question is rhetorical. In Kotch, Walter Matthau plays a septuagenarian of shrewd independence; he has no intention of fading slowly into the sunset years. Because, among other offenses, he leaves the toilet seat up, Kotcher is eased out of his son's bickering household in Los Angeles and takes off for the Northwest, sightseeing...

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