When even such good actresses as Christine Lahti and Mary Stuart Masterson can't do anything with a script that's meant to be a warm, funny and occasionally sad look at romance and heartbreak, you know you're in trouble. You're even worse off, though, when you have Gene Wilder, trying too hard as the impossible-to-live-with cartoonist whose second fling at marriage (with a lady chef) turns into an excruciatingly embarrassing obsession about having a baby. Wilder jokes a lot in between outbursts of hysteria, and does James Cagney impressions, but none of it is amusing, or even touching when it should be. There is one funny line, when a bimbo girlfriend is described as 'a little vague about her last name - but this is usual for the witness protection programme'. Otherwise, the only good thing in it is Susan Ruttan, once Roxanne in TV's L A Law, who brings real warmth and personality to the woman Wilder's father marries after his mother dies.


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