Proving that midlife crisis movies don't have to be tedious, or directed by Woody Allen, this is an inventive confessional/musical by Bob Cabaret Fosse. It features a startling performance by Roy Scheider (complete with pixie boots and beard) as Fosse's charming, workaholic, pill-popping, chainsmoking, heavy-drinking, womanising and hallucinatory alter ego Joe Gideon, a great choreographer, but a bad husband and an even worse father. A startling musical that dares to set open heart surgery to music.
DVD Extras:
Commentary by Scheider, interviews, Bob Fosse On Set featurette, trailer. Scheider's polite but sparse blab adds little to this wonderfully mad piece of storytelling, and the featurette is simply B-roll footage of the man directing. Nothing to sing and dance about.
