Cinema: Traveling Light

HARRY AND TONTO

Directed by PAUL MAZURSKY Screenplay by PAUL MAZURSKY and JOSH GREENFELD

Like most old people, Harry Combes needs all the energy he can muster just to stay put. But the cadences of contemporary American life urge change and demand movement. So Harry Combes moves.

A widower, he moves first out of his West Side Manhattan apartment, which has fallen victim to urban renewal, and in with his son and family, who have a small suburban house. The household is in a state of operational turmoil, with rankling dinner-table conversation and fraternal...

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