Struggling filmmaker Harley Rummel (Warren Beatty) is under pressure to make something revolutionary in his mail-order films but he refuses to make porn. He may have to and he has a new neighbor in single mom Michele O'Brien (Leslie Caron). She has her eyes on her boss, child psychologist Philip Brock. He actually hates kids and she keeps her toddler a secret. While Rummel babysits for Michele, he comes up with a new filmmaking idea.
I thought the movie came out with a brilliant idea when Rummel puts the toddler in a movie. I thought he was going to film only the baby and show it to a female audience. I thought it's a great turn but then he just puts the baby in his hoochie coochie movies. Who would want that? The premise falls apart from that point on. It comes so close and yet so far away. Without the right premise, the comedy doesn't hold and non of it feels right.
I thought the movie came out with a brilliant idea when Rummel puts the toddler in a movie. I thought he was going to film only the baby and show it to a female audience. I thought it's a great turn but then he just puts the baby in his hoochie coochie movies. Who would want that? The premise falls apart from that point on. It comes so close and yet so far away. Without the right premise, the comedy doesn't hold and non of it feels right.