THE GIN GAME (PBS 2003)

In this skillful TV-movie of D.L. Coburn's Pulitzer Prize-winning play, Dick Van Dyke and Mary Tyler Moore reunite in their first acting performance together since "The Dick Van Dyke Show" (1961-66). The powerfully bittersweet comedy follows the relationship that develops between two elderly nursing home residents Fonsia Dorsey (Moore) and Weller Martin (Van Dyke) during a series of gin games in which their ailments, misfortunes and losses are exposed in funny, honest and increasingly heated moments. (Digital, 16X9, 90 min)