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‘Lost & Found in Cleveland’ Review: Antique Appraisals Rile Up Midwest Cuckoos in a Middling Ensemble Comedy of One-Note Characters
'Lost & Found in Cleveland' casts June Squibb, Dennis Haybert, Martin Sheen and more as antique obsessives, but strands them in one-note characters.
An opening montage to the retro pop of Bobby Darin singing “Artificial Flowers” — an incongruously brassy, “Mack the Knife”-like arrangement of a depressing slum-tragedy lyric from 1960 Broadway musical “Tenderloin” — introduces the characters, as well as a sense that this midwestern metropolis’ growth stalled some decades ago. But her son is off at college, her doctor husband happy to work abroad (he’s currently spending two years in Abu Dhabi), leaving her no object to exert her aspirational drive on, save one highly resistant teenage daughter (Vanessa Burghardt). Music supervisor Jim Black papers the soundtrack with the kinds of pre-rock kitsch (by Guy Lombardo, Paul Whiteman, Frankie Laine, Doris Day, Henry Mancini et al.) that lend both nostalgic bounce and a winking ironic gloss to proceedings.
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