A mother and daughter find that their marriages are unsatisfactory, the first four reasons of wanting more thrills and spontaneity and the other because she doesn't feel appreciated or respected. Hy Hazell can describe her husband's every move as he comes home every day from work, even to the point of what gift he'll bring her on a certain day. Her daughter, Elizabeth Shepherd, has the opposite issue, finding that her husband doesn't appreciate or pay enough attention to her even though they are fairly newly-married. Indeed William Fox, Hazell's husband, is rather staid and unromantic, even as he tries to be romantic and understanding. Dennis Lotis, Shepherd's husband, would rather be out after work down home with his wife. So it comes as quite a shock when Lotis takes fox out after work and gets him drunk, something that Delights his wife but makes Shepherd upset.
Amusing but calculated comedy about the issues of marriage, not at all related to the popular British play of the same name that had previously been made as a film in 1954. Everything in the film seems to be painted by numbers so the plot is developed, peaks with its conflicts and then resolves itself perfectly with atypical clinch at the end. Like the older couple's marriage, there's absolutely no danger in the place, and the audience is never hold for a minute into thinking that things won't resolve themselves in a simple way. So basically it's saying that not every woman wants the same thing, but at least it's not indicating that the wives want to change their husbands and will stand for nothing less.
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