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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Crimson" data-source="post: 373241" data-attributes="member: 5079"><p>DIRTY ROTTEN SCOUNDRELS is one of my favorite comedies; I mentally pair it with RUTHLESS PEOPLE and A FISH CALLED WANDA as the trio of 80s comedies about terrible people that are darkly funny but also surprisingly sweet.  (I love all three.)  In general I like all of Steve Martin's 80s work although since then, not so much.  SCOUNDRELS is also an incredibly rare instance of a remake being better than the original.   BEDTIME STORY, with Brando, David Niven and Shirley Jones is just so-so and has none of the hilarity and heart of SCOUNDRELS.</p></blockquote><p></p>