Blending excellent reporting and strong storytelling, this is a disturbing film truly stranger than fiction

At first rather annoying in its heavy emphasis on reenactments, this movie ultimately proves fascinating, simply because the complicated, highly dramatic tale it tells still almost defies belief.

if their story seems completely bonkers, almost like a feverish work of fiction, you ain't heard nothing yet.

Amazing worth wacthing. So good. Biased but well made with many good points.

'Author! Author!' is a lively, entertaining & light-hearted film. Also, Al Pacino shines in the central role.'Author! Author!' concerns the familial and relationship troubles of a stressed Armenian-American Broadway writer, as he struggles to write an original play.The Screenplay by Israel Horovitz is lively, entertaining & light-hearted. The relationship between a Father & his Kids, is very nicely established. Arthur Hiller's Direction is decent. Cinematography & Editing, are fair.Performance-Wise: As mentioned before, Pacino shines in his performance. He is absolutely lovable from start to end. Dyan Cannon is good. The kids, all of them, are superb in their parts & compliment Pacino wonderfully.On the whole, 'Author! Author!' is a winner all the way. Recommended!

this Al Pacino vehicle didn't do much for me.Pacino plays a playwright struggling with writing his latest play,while dealing with all kinds of personal issues.i found it boring,boring,and more boring.i just didn't see the point of it all.to say it's moves at a sedate pace is an understatement.it hardly moves at all.Pacino is good,but i felt his character is underwritten.the kids are cute,but not enough to carry the movie.in short,i couldn't wait for this thing to end.i really wanted to turn it off several times,but i stuck it through to the bitter end.it wasn't worth it.but that's just my opinion,maybe i'm wrong.for me,Author! Author rates a 4/10

Author!Author! is an enjoyable romantic comedy vehicle for Al Pacino, Which is lighter than his previous film 'Crusing' Pacino is perfectly cast as a struggling playwright, whose trying to get his first Broadway, play up and running,Pacino's wife played by (Tuesday Weld) decide's to leave him for another man which complicates matter's for Pacino,and children,which see's Pacino picking up the pieces,With hilarious results! Pacino, meets Hollywood actress (Dyan Cannon) who is cast in his play which soon becomes a smash, My Ownly complaint about this film is the terrible song 'coming home to you is like coming home to milk and cookie's Other than that, the film is fine,

Even "Cruising" suited you better than this, and I naively thought that was you hitting rock-bottom. I suppose had I glanced at the respective CV's of both the writer and director before viewing, that should have been enough to give me a slight clue (Pacino teams with writer of "See no Evil, Hear no Evil"- Yeah, I can see why that somehow won't be on any re-release posters!); but nothing could have reasonably prepared me for the mind-numbing awfulness that is this film.The synopsis I read promised something of a 'comedic' turn from the esteemed leading man; Sure, if 'comedic turn' is a handy insider euphemism for 'rancid heap of vomit-inducing mush'... ... It's criminal to see such a talented performer marooned in a vehicle so abject as this; a picture that even an individual noted for their generosity in spirit would shrink away from and crawl fearfully back to watching 'sitcom-lite'. It's so bland that this colourlessness becomes an insulting element in itself. What meagre humour there is is so desperate to generate any kind of reaction that it resorts to mining attempted chuckles from child-abuse, of all topics. Not just edging toward, but apparently happily camped in 'distasteful' territory, I'm sure most of you will agree... This kind of trash deserves the misfortune of a Z-grade celeb saddled with 'headlining' it - not the finest actor of his generation. If you've ever had a burning, deeply shameful and dirty desire to see Al Pacino in a "Home Alone" flick; don dark glasses to rent this, watch it ONCE only and then commit yourself to good deeds for the rest of your natural days. Or failing that, just 'commit' yourself! Dreck like this is mercifully likely the closest our society will come to the realisation of such a hideous nightmare; until Satan decides to sublet Hell as a skating rink, that is!I'm convinced this title is a hidden subliminal insert from a worried distributor, drawn from the wailing of a traumatised audience member dragged raving from a test-screening. His mostly incoherent babble was meant as the beginning of a tirade against the scripter for being so callously inhumane as to subject him to this utter pap.I refuse to believe that "Revolution"; the film that kept Al Pacino away from our cinema screens for four years (85-89), can possibly be any worse than this; but shudderingly I think that I might once have possessed the brashness to say the same about "Cruising" when THAT review was in genesis, too... Imagine waking in the morning to the horrified surprise of finding a neighbour had laid a bowel movement on your doorstep. Maybe this will help you to partially assimilate my reaction as I sat and watched "Author! Author!" unfold before my disbelieving and silently weeping eyes. Thus I know not to so casually prejudge "Revolution" before I see; because until this morning I thought I'd see nothing more heinous from Pacino than "Cruising"... It was a brighter world at that time, untainted by such pure evil in celluloid form - but alas, now my relative innocence has been snatched away from me, and I have experienced the toxicity of some things that writers and directors are capable of dredging up from the fetid cesspools that must surely constitute their minds...Run now, while you can. Save yourselves from such a pile of insipid garbage. A klaxon-call if ever there was one, and you can quote me on it, if you wish...1/10.