After Ishtar and Love Affair, here's another shock for Warren Beatty: his latest Woody Allenish Manhattan marital comedy cost $90m and flopped badly in the US. Though not nearly as bad as the American reviews suggest, its stale, lumbering script manages to make a crew of accomplished older performers look geriatric. Two long-married couples are enjoying a mid-life crisis: as antiques dealer Garry Shandling dumps wife Goldie Hawn for grubby stopovers in B&Bs with a transvestite, while architect Warren Beatty elbows out Diane Keaton in favour of Hawn, cellist Nastassja Kinski, Flaky Andie Macdowell, daffy Jenna Elfman, auntie Jane Cobbley and all. No wonder his son Josh Hartnett looks disgusted! There are genuinely funny moments and amusing scenes here, but the strain of a weak, blunt and complacently old-fashioned script just keep pulling the movie's fabric apart. This museum piece is a beautiful production, though, gorgeously photographed by William Fraker.