This made-for-TV movie wasn’t my favorite John Ritter role, but it was definitely an excellent role for his best friend Henry Winkler. The movie is about a man with several children who owns a construction company and is going through a divorce from their mother that is amicable until she starts dating an unemployable, abusive psycho. The kids, of course, figure this out before she does, and in the end
[Ritter’s character kills the boyfriend, and buries him under concrete in one of his projects[/spoiler]
The casting was perfect, because Winkler played someone who is the polar opposite of his image. Yeah, it was cliched and all that, but I found it memorable because of who was in it. I remember watching it in a motel room while I had a traveling job, a couple years after it debuted, probably on Lifetime or some comparable channel.
And I’m quite disturbed, no {{{embittered}}} about the negligent lack of mention of maybe JR’s most sublime role, as the genuine, scrupulous record producer in Ringo’s All-Star TV Special from 1978.
Maybe they begin that way. But if such an accident happens and the wiseacre comment ends up getting a bigger laugh than the actual written material, the performers might find it irresistible to stage the exact same accident in subsequent performances, no?