Cinema: Split Personality

ALL OF ME Directed by Carl Reiner Screenplay by Phil Alden Robinson

Roger Cobb (Steve Martin) has this little problem: the spirit of a dead woman inhabits and controls the right side of his body. The semitranssexual dilemma is no miracle of genetic engineering but rather a goof-up of Oriental mysticism. Seems that Roger, a 38-year-old lawyer drifting through a mediocre career and toward a no-thrills marriage with the boss's daughter, was named executor of the estate of Edwina Cutwater (Lily Tomlin), one of the world's richest, coldest, frailest and ditsiest women. Edwina had engaged the services of...

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