The 1984 comedy All Of Me is really something rather special. It boasts a pair of leading performances from Steve Martin and Lily Tomlin that, were it not for anti-comedy snobbery, would surely have garnered Oscar nominations. And it brought to an end a run of four films in a row that director Carl Reiner made with Steve Martin. It would be no understatement to say that Reiner and Martin's collaborations were incredibly special, given that they gave the world The Jerk, Dead Men Don't Wear Plaid and The Man With Two Brains.
All Of Me, for some reason, tends to be the one that's forgotten, and yet it's brilliant. Which brings us to this story: it's being remade.
The screenplay for the new film has been penned by The Vow scribes Marc Silverstein and Abby Kohn, and it's going to turn the original film around. Instead of a woman's soul being in a man's body, it's going to be a man's in a woman's. Call Martin Lawrence, then.
John Davis (Chronicle, Mr Popper's Penguins) is producing. Our firm recommendation: pretend this isn't happening, and get hold of a copy of the original if you've never seen. You'll laugh your socks off.
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