Although this comedy about a white businessman who finds he has a black son is embarrassing at times, there are moments when it is unexpectedly and uncommonly funny. For this, we can thank not just the shafts of wit in Stanley Shapiro's violently variable script, but especially the star, George Segal. He reacts with superb timing and an immense range of facial grimaces as the henpecked, boss-pecked executive whose offspring (a young Denzel Washington) descends on him from the 20-year past. Parts of the subsequent story are affecting, parts will make you cringe and parts, thanks mainly to Segal, will make you giggle. If the direction is negligible, then Fred Koenkamp's excellent Metrocolour photography and Bill Conti's rollicking music more than make up for it.

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