A marriage-go-round comedy about a Broadway playwright (Al Pacino) trying to tie up all the loose ends of two failed marriages, cope with various troublesome offspring and deliver urgently needed re-writes for his latest play. It seeks to dig deeper than Neil Simon, whose territory this clearly is, but emerges as a bland confection. It is left to the sparkling playing of Dyan Cannon and Tuesday Weld, as the women in his life, to give the film a vitality that's sadly missing in the script. The career of Pacino was really on the skids at this time, following the tedious love story Bobby Deerfield and the seedy murder thriller Cruising and with the mega-turkey Revolution just around the corner. It would be another seven years before Sea of Love would put him back in the ranks of Hollywood's leading men.

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