Four people venture outside their marriages into affairs that promise greater excitement, fulfillment, whatever. All behave foolishly or recklessly in the process.
One dumps his aging wife to chase after young women and eventually marries a hooker so preposterously crude and stupid that you look forward with relish to the misery that is sure to plague him.
Another is a self-absorbed one-hit novelist who fritters away his days while his wife works for a living. He sponges off his mother in law while treating her with contempt. Eventually he poses as an accomplished novelist and convinces a woman about to be married to dump her fiancé. To prove his prowess as a novelist, he steals a manuscript by a more talented friend who is in a coma and submits it to a publisher as his own.
The third, his wife, assumes that her married boss has a thing for her when in fact he is having an affair with her friend.
Only the fourth, the mother-in-law, ends up reasonably happy with her new love--and she is completely batty.
Some of Woody Allen's hilarious humor would have helped us to forget the fact that none of these characters shows the slightest trace of real emotion or is even likable.
This movie is really a cold fish.
One dumps his aging wife to chase after young women and eventually marries a hooker so preposterously crude and stupid that you look forward with relish to the misery that is sure to plague him.
Another is a self-absorbed one-hit novelist who fritters away his days while his wife works for a living. He sponges off his mother in law while treating her with contempt. Eventually he poses as an accomplished novelist and convinces a woman about to be married to dump her fiancé. To prove his prowess as a novelist, he steals a manuscript by a more talented friend who is in a coma and submits it to a publisher as his own.
The third, his wife, assumes that her married boss has a thing for her when in fact he is having an affair with her friend.
Only the fourth, the mother-in-law, ends up reasonably happy with her new love--and she is completely batty.
Some of Woody Allen's hilarious humor would have helped us to forget the fact that none of these characters shows the slightest trace of real emotion or is even likable.
This movie is really a cold fish.