and starring Steve Martin
and Lily Tomlin
. This film is based on the novel Me Two by Edwin Davis.
Martin plays an attorney named Roger Cobb. He is dating his boss' daughter and is also an aspiring jazz guitarist. Lily Tomlin
is a difficult, eccentric, spoiled rotten, but oxygen-dependent millionairess named Edwina Cutwater. Discovering that she is dying, Cutwater wants to make some unusual final arrangements.
Roger is sent in to arrange her will, in which she wants to leave her vast fortune to Terry Hoskins (Victoria Tennant
), her stablekeeper's daughter, with the idea that a culture-shocked holy man can use a mystical bowl to allow Miss Hoskins' soul to leave and Edwina's soul to enter her body
, giving her the chance of a life in a less crippled body.
How dare you say 'penis' to a dead person.
[On finding her soul inside Roger Cobb's body] I don't believe this. I can't even die right.
You are rude, crude, and thoroughly unattractive.
[To his girlfriend] You bought me a gravestone for my thirty-eighth birthday?!
[To his dog] Don't look at me like that. I'm not going in there as a messenger boy; I'm a trained legal advisor. No more being looked down on by people who think they're better than I am because they're rich. From now on, I'm gonna be respected... by people who think they're better than I am because they're rich.
Is everyone here bananas?
[After Edwina has called him a 'peasant'] Listen, lady. Just because my grandfather didn't rape the environment and exploit the workers doesn't make me a peasant. And it's not that he didn't want to rape the environment and exploit the workers; I'm sure he did. It's just that as a barber, he didn't have that much opportunity.
[To Edwina] You're like an energy vampire. You suck the life out of people and take the fun out of being a lawyer.
The comedy that proves that one's a crowd.