Thursday's Game
Harry Evers and Marvin Ellison have been playing poker Thursday nights with their friends for years. When a disagreement breaks up the game, they decide to continue meeting and doing different things together, instead of staying home with their wives. When the wives find out that the games stopped some time ago, they are a quite upset. Just what have they been doing on Thursday nights?
Cast
Gene Wilder
Harry Evers
Bob Newhart
Marvin Ellison
Ellen Burstyn
Lynne Evers
Cloris Leachman
Lois Ellison
Martha Scott
Mrs. Reynolds
Nancy Walker
Mrs. Bender
Valerie Harper
Ann Menzente
Rob Reiner
Joel Forrest
Norman Fell
Melvin Leonard
Gino Conforti
Mike
Robert Sampson
Dave
Richard Gautier
John
John Archer
Mr. Wood
Jed Allan
Dick
William Callaway
Cabbie
Sidney Clute
Camp Director
Chris Sarandon
Counselor
Carol Worthington
Contestant
Loyd Catlett
Camp Counselor
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Reviews
Peter McGinn
Thursday’s Game is a lightweight comedy in some ways, but it is quirky enough to rise above the level of more forgettable network movies. It features Gene Wilder and a competent ensemble cast made up of faces that would later become very familiar in popular tv sitcoms. We watched it recently as part of a Cloris Leachman retrospective.
The humor ranges from being fairly subtle to occasional slapstick. The plot focuses mostly on Wilder’s character, his employment and marriage ups and downs, with lesser attention paid to Bob Newhart’s restless character, who wants out of his marriage.
As mentioned above, it is lightweight stuff, but entertaining enough to be worth our time, with a rather sudden and whimsical ending that in a way seemed to suit the story.
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