It's hard to know what to say about a film as dull as this.

Of two marriages in 1984, one breaks up, the other leaves the wife a widow.

The husband of the first (Bridges) marries the widow (Krige), misses his two children and has a few minor problems with his two stepchildren.

This all takes two hours to unfold and the best the film can do in the way of a spanner in the works is having the husband sleeping with his ex-wife (Fawcett) the night after his mother dies.

The script never gives the players a chance to pluck the heartstrings and even gets mawkish at times.

You can see that director Pakula was trying to make a valid human document here, but his writers have let him down by the sheer ordinariness of their script.