The Ritz

On outrageously over-the-top comedy time capsule about mobsters, mistaken identities, missed connections, and men, men, men. With his gangster brother-in-law out to get him, a schlubby garbageman goes into hiding in “the last place on Earth anybody would ever think of looking for me,” a gay bathhouse, where he soon becomes the unlikely object of everyone’s affections. Playwright Terrence McNally updates his Broadway hit for the big screen and brings some of the original stage stars with him for a funny farce directed by Richard Lester. With character actor Jack Weston in the lead role, Rita Moreno as the local chanteuse, a hunky F. Murray Abraham in a teeny tiny towel, Treat Williams doing a Mickey Mouse voice as a himbo private dick, and Jerry Stiller as the mob man calling the shots.