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Melvin and Howard (1980). The story of hard-luck Melvin E. Dummar, who claimed to have received a will naming him an heir to the fortune of Howard Hughes.

There’s a warmth and a charm to this film that tended to make up for some really strange narrataive choices, like having the crux of the story and the titular dynamic play out only really in the last twenty minutes of the film (excluding the opening, of course). I appreciated some of it’s themes, and I definitely appreciated a young Mary Steenburgen tap dancing to The Rolling Stones, but I don’t think overall it really landed in the place it wanted to. 6.5/10.