Laura Lansing Slept Here *** (1988, Katharine Hepburn, Karen Austin, Brenda Forbes) – Classic Movie Review 10,374

Producer-director George Schaefer’s 1988 made-for-TV comedy Laura Lansing Slept Here provides a tailor-made role for Katharine Hepburn, playing Laura Lansing, a character much like herself, an indomitable old novelist who, when told by her agent that it is time to hang up the typewriter, simply says, ‘No work, no life!’

The agent says that she is out of touch with ordinary people and claims that she could not last a week with a normal family. Hepburn bets him she can, so he finds a family in Hicksville on Long Island who agree to take her in. She intimidates everybody, wins them over and sorts out their lives.

Writer James Prideaux has turned this fairly daft idea into a gentle, old-fashioned, cosy situation comedy. It is fun and amusing, and while the Great Kate is on screen, which is most of the time, it is riveting.

Also in the cast are Karen Austin, Joel Higgins, Lee Richardson, Brenda Forbes, Nicolas Surovy, Schuyler Grant, Moira Walley, Janet Wright, Kevin McNulty, Sean Harmon, Kyle Comber, Ryan Comber, Dana Still, Merrilyn Gann, Freda Perry, Venus Trezo and Beverley Hendry.

Schuyler Grant is Hepburn’s grand niece.

It was shot in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada.

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