Director Joan Micklin Silver has written a nice screenplay for this serious comedy-romance, full of natural sounding dialogue that's amusing without being ostentatious. With a foundation like this, and performers like John Heard and Mary Beth Hurt, such a film should entertain and tug the heartstrings at the same time. It does that at times, it's true, but though it's unthinkable that it should sink into tedium, it does that too. As an obsessive wooer, Heard combines the cynical-romantic approach of George Segal with the dry delivery of Dustin Hoffman to register more strongly than he has in any other part. But there are too many self-effacing performances in the cast to give the romance the cutting edge to bite on the emotions. In one of her last film performances, sultry Gloria Grahame looks much the same as she did 20 years before.


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