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THE ONE AND ONLY

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Original Title : The One and Only Year : 1978 Director : Carl Reiner Writer : Steve Gordon IMDb : http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0078034/ Genre : Romantic Comedy synopsis: 1951: Andy Schmidt is in his last year of college. Taking life easy and always a saucy joke on his lips, he manages to win fellow student Mary's heart, although she's already otherwise engaged. But getting a job after college turns out much harder than expected; most directors take offense at his free interpretation of his roles. Desperate, he tries in wrestling. To avoid getting beaten up he stages the fights - and incidentally invents show-wrestling. This movie tricked me. It made me think it was a wrestling movie, but really turned out to be a romantic comedy with a little "wrestling" sprinkled in there. While it did make me think of the wrestling-world-famous Gorgeous George, it was just too much a vehicle for Henry Winkler to act crazy for me to really get into it. Winkler is a far cry from the F...