MY CHAUFFEUR

US, 1986, 97 minutes, Colour.
Deoborah Foreman, Matt Lattanzi, Sam J. Jones, Sean McClory?, Howard Hesseman, E.G. Marshall, Penn Jillette, Teller.
Directed by David Beaird.

My Chauffeur is a forgettable romantic comedy. It is glossy, '80S style. However, it lacks real wit.

Deborah Foreman plays a cook who likes driving and gets the opportunity to join a conservative limousine service (with antagonism from the rest of the elderly staff and the manager played by Howard Hesseman). She is kindly, helps people out - and causes a rumpus in the firm. She encounters accidentally the son of the boss (played by Sam Jones - Flash Gordon). She has to drive him to the country, through attractive scenery; they have an accident, go to a farmhouse, fall in love, he wants to marry her, she refuses. He keeps pressing his suit. Father, the owner of the firm, is played by E. G. Marshall. With his Irish assistant, he has engineered Deborah's job. There seems, for a moment (an unpleasant aspect to the comedy) that he could be the father of each. However the stuffiest of the chauffeurs admits that he is the girl's father. This means that the film can have a happy romantic ending.

There are some comic sequences, especially with two comedians representing a young Arab sheikh and a conman on the make, which brings in an amount of sex comedy,

Overall, the film is quite unfunny and becomes tedious. However, it was typical enough of the type of romantic comedy (with a touch of permissiveness) popular in the '80s.