Where’s Poppa? (1970) on Netflix
Attorney Gordon Hocheiser lives in New York with his senile mother, whose behavior ruins his love life. He hires Louise Callan as her nurse and fears his mother will drive her away.
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Plot summary
Gordon Hocheiser practices law in New York and shares an apartment with his mother, an elderly widow who asks him again and again where Poppa is. His answer never changes, and her rudeness and eccentricities keep spoiling his romances. On his father's deathbed he promised that she would never be sent to a home, so the care falls to him, and the nurses he finds for her keep quitting. His married brother Sidney gives him emotional support from the Upper East Side. Meeting Louise Callan, a young private nurse with no qualifications worth noting, Gordon hires her to look after his mother, and the two fall for each other at once. Then he begins to worry that his mother will frighten Louise off.
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- William LeMassenaas Judge(William Le Massena)
Did you know?!Facts and trivia about Where’s Poppa? (1970)
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The film's original ending, with Gordon in bed with his mother, was considered too risqué and cut before its theatrical release. The removed post-credits scene, in which his ruse to keep his mother at the rest home fails, survives in cable prints and on several home video releases.- After doing poorly on first release, the film gained a following, prompting United Artists to re-release it nationally in 1975 as Going Ape, a title chosen because of the film's gorilla-related shenanigans.
