Memories of Me

The bittersweet comedy Memories of Me stars Billy Crystal as Dr. Abbie Polin, a New York heart surgeon, long estranged from his father, Abe (Alan King). When the doctor suffers a mild heart attack, he tries to patch things up with his dad, hoping in this way to bring some equilibrium to his own ...more

One of the key scenes in Memories of Me arrives late in the film. Abe Polin (Alan King), the self-proclaimed "king of the extras" in Hollywood productions, lets his son, Abbie (Billy Crystal), talk him into a studio audition for a speaking part -- Abe's first -- in a major motion picture. Abe visits the casting director, Dorothy Davis (Janet Carroll), but refuses to take Davis seriously -- every straight-faced question she asks earns a smart-ass quip or a piece of stale sarcasm, until she tells ...more