Movie Info

This film was something of a movie stunt: writer-director Blake Edwards cast his friends and family, gave them a structure, then had them improvise th...(read more...) e scenes before he put them into a script. The result is so amazingly flat that you'll be astonished that anyone would think they were actually doing something interesting. The plot centers on a writer (Jack Lemmon) who, in his anxiety about the onset of his 60th birthday, doesn't notice that his singer-wife (Julie Andrews) is going through a crisis of her own: a throat ailment that may be cancer. The cast, which includes both Edwards's and Lemmon's kids, flutters around them searching for a way to kick-start the plot, but we're left to watch Lemmon twittering about in the midst of a very late midlife crisis. --Marshall Fine

Director: Blake Edwards

MPAA: PG-13

Running Time: 102 min.

Release Date: Sep 26, 1986

Cast: Jack Lemmon, Jennifer Edwards, Julie Andrews, Robert Loggia, Sally Kellerman