Young girl, stricken with leukemia (and wise beyond her years), gets to live out most of the wishes on her 'things I haven't done yet' list with help from a member of the California State Assembly--a married man who is also running for Congress--and her single mother, a cosmetics executive. David Seltzer's adaptation of Fred Mustard Stewart's novel made the casting rounds in Hollywood in the 1970s, with just about every bankable name attached at one time or another; you may wonder, then, why Dudley Moore and Mary Tyler Moore were eventually chosen for the grown-up leads. They don't match up right, and I don't think Mary Tyler Moore is ever in character here. Dudley, portraying a naturalized American citizen, manages to lend the scenario some of his dry, offhand wit, but there's no snap to the picture. Designed to jerk tears, it's a do-gooder drama populated by the philanthropic wealthy. Everyone suffers elegantly. *1/2 from ****
Review of Six Weeks
