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Critical Consensus

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starstarstar Susan Stark - Detroit News
starstarstar Margaret McGurk - Cincinnati Enquirer
starstarstar Kevin Thomas - LA Times
starstarstar Jeff Vice - Deseret News
starstarstar Jeff Millar - Houston Chronicle
starstar Susan Wloszczyna - USA Today
starstar Mark Burger - Winston-Salem Journal
starstar John Anderson - Newsday
starstar G. Allen Johnson - SF Examiner
starstar Lawrence Van Gelder - NY Times
starstar Roger Ebert - Chicago Sun-Times
starstar Robert Horton - Film.com
starstar Lisa Schwarzbaum - EW
starstar Keith Simanton - Seattle Times
  Joe Baltake - Sacramento Bee

The material itself is fairly humdrum, but what [Goldie] Hawn brings to it in energy, imagination and just plain adorability lifts it way beyond anything on the page

- Susan Stark

Depressingly unfunny, the new version of The Out-of-Towners trashes most of what was deliciously nasty about the 1970 original

- Joe Baltake

The Out-of-Towners

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In this second filming of Neil Simon's play, empty-nesters take a trip to New York City that tests their marriage and their sanity. Steve Martin, Goldie Hawn, John Cleese, Mark McKinney. Director: Sam Weisman (1999, PG-13)

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