Everything sly and low-key about The In-Laws, a 1979 comedy about a dentist (Alan Arkin) and a rogue CIA agent (Peter Falk) with nothing in common except that the son of one is marrying the daughter of the other, is supersized and coarsened in Andrew Fleming's remake. There are laughs, thanks to Michael Douglas as the agent and Albert Brooks as the doc, now a prissy, fastidious Chicago podiatrist. When the agent takes the doc and his family to a Vietnamese restaurant that serves live snake, Brooks' comic delivery is martini-dry ("I never eat while my food's still eating"). The rest, with its caricatures of gays, Asians, even Barbra Streisand, is all wet.

“Help Me”

Joni Mitchell wrote and recorded this song for her album Court and Spark, but she had to switch from her regular band to make the song sound exactly the way she wanted. "I had attempted to play my music with rock & roll players," she told Rolling Stone. "They’d laugh, 'Awww, isn't that cute? She's trying to teach us how to play.'" Mitchell switched to a jazz band, Tom Scott’s L.A. Express, and scored the biggest hit of her career in the process.