Seems Like Old Times (film)

Seems Like Old Times
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Directed by	Jay Sandrich
Produced by	Margaret Booth Roger M. Rothstein Ray Stark
Written by	Neil Simon
Starring	Goldie Hawn Chevy Chase Charles Grodin Robert Guillaume
Music by	Marvin Hamlisch
Cinematography	David M. Walsh
Edited by	Michael A. Stevenson
Production company	Rastar
Distributed by	Columbia Pictures
Release date	December 19, 1980
Running time	100 minutes
Country	United States
Language	English
Box office	$43,995,918

Seems Like Old Times is a 1980 American comedy film starring Chevy Chase, Goldie Hawn, and Charles Grodin, directed by Jay Sandrich, with Neil Simon as screenwriter. It is the only film directed by Sandrich.

After Nick Gardenia (Chase) is forced to rob a bank, and becomes a fugitive, he seeks help from his ex-wife Glenda Parks (Hawn), a public defender. Her current husband, Ira Parks (Grodin), is the Los Angeles county district attorney, who harbors a jealous disdain towards Nick.

This was the second pairing of Goldie Hawn and Chevy Chase, after their hugely popular Foul Play from 1978.

Nick Gardenia (Chevy Chase), an out-of-luck writer, has the use of a friend's oceanside cabin in Big Sur, California. He is interrupted by a pair of bank robbers, Warren 'Dex' Dexter (Judd Omen) and B.G. Ramone (Marc Alaimo), who use Nick to rob a bank in Carmel. Their modus operandi is to take an innocent person and force them at gunpoint to rob banks, take the money and toss their captive out of their moving car. Unfortunately for Nick (as in one of Chase's signature pratfalls), he trips in the bank, is helped up and looks directly into a security camera.

The bank's picture of Nick comes to the attention of Los Angeles district attorney Ira Parks (Charles Grodin) when his assistant, Fred (Robert Guillaume), recognizes it to be Parks' wife's ex-husband. Because of his desire to become State Attorney General, Ira is frustrated and upset, thinking this could harm his campaign.