All the fun of one of Neil Simon's best Broadway plays makes its way happily onto cinema screens, boosted enormously by Marsha Mason's lovely performance as a recently divorced actress who enjoys a life chapter two with widowed novelist James Caan.

Mason is a screen-grabber in this Oscar-nominated turn, and Caan, though oddly cast and not in the same league, overcomes his discomfort to give a sturdy, belieavble performance.

Despite the presence of such comic luminaries as Joseph Bologna, Valerie Harper and Alan Fudge, nobody else gets mush of a look-in.

Simon's dialogue in unerringly true and funny.

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