No wonder hero Ron Silver wanders through this carnal, Jewish-slanted tragicomedy looking dazed, like Zeppo in a Marx Brothers film. Three wives yet the man has - all of them pursuing him, or going round the bend, or both. You can almost hear him muttering to himself as he turns his collar up against the snow in some Bronx backstreet of 1949, where the cameraman always has a sepia filter over his lens. Enemies takes a bit of getting into, but it has some rare, ripe moments in its second half, especially when two of the wives meet. You see, his wife was killed (but wasn't) during the war, so he marries the earthy servant who saved his life, whom he doesn't love (but makes pregnant), preferring the company of his fiery, red-haired mistress, whom he also makes pregnant (only she isn't). Silver seems numbed by it all, as well he might. Anjelica Huston, Lena Olin and Margaret Sophie Stein are all great as the women. The meal they serve up is overlong, but it does have some tasty moments.

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