a mild mannered ny lawyer ( george segal ) be slowly go crazy . he promise his father on his death bed that he would never send their senile mother ( ruth gordon ) to a nursing home . year later he take care of a senile and dangerous psychopath . he meet a beautiful nurse ( trish van devere ) and they fall in love . but his mother keep scar her away . segal be ready to kill her . ummmm . this be a comedy . i have nothing against sick and black humor but come on . there have to be some limit . this movie go out of it way to throw every tasteless sick joke it can think of and rub your face in it . too bad none of the joke be funny . the joke involve rape and nudity and public humiliation and senile old people and swear and racism . basically this be a movie that think it clever by try to shock people and think they will laugh at it . i be disgust and do not laugh once . the movie be morbid and disturbing and ( surprisingly ) dull . the cast be the only thing that keep me watch . segal and gordon be both wonderful in their role gordon especially . and van devere be pretty good also . but the script be against them . the only interesting thing ( not funny ) be a pointless courtroom scene with rob reiner jr. ( and try to spot his then wife penny marshall a a spectator ) . actually this movie could have be bad the original end have segal get into bed with his mother and pretending he poppa . that be ( thankfully ) change . a real lousy and sick film . bottom of the barrel . i give it a 1 .