Charles Grodin and Marlo Thomas are a married couple having problems simply because they have too many things not in common and need time apart. He works as a teacher at a charter school near Lincoln Center and she works at a school on the lower east side with underprivileged kids.
She needs to connect with who she really is, while has to find himself, and hopefully not in bed with the seductive Ann Wedgeworth who lives next door. She's tempted by John McMartin, a married man she met on the street. Thomas has a personal interest in the troubled orphan Larry B. Scott ("Revenge of the Nerds"), wanting to help him by bringing him into their home, but Grodin objects.
A forgotten Broadway play by Herb Gardner ("A Thousand Clowns") that was a hit in its day but hasn't been revived, It resulted in a movie that very few people remember. Irwin Corey may turn some people off as Thomas's grizzled cab driver father with his constant racist rants, but he's certainly real. I enjoyed this for the view of gritty 70's New York, but the film (like most movie versions of obviously complicated plays) has far too many directions in which it's going. Still, good performances and believable characters makes this interesting as a slice of life from a pie they no longer have the recipe for.
She needs to connect with who she really is, while has to find himself, and hopefully not in bed with the seductive Ann Wedgeworth who lives next door. She's tempted by John McMartin, a married man she met on the street. Thomas has a personal interest in the troubled orphan Larry B. Scott ("Revenge of the Nerds"), wanting to help him by bringing him into their home, but Grodin objects.
A forgotten Broadway play by Herb Gardner ("A Thousand Clowns") that was a hit in its day but hasn't been revived, It resulted in a movie that very few people remember. Irwin Corey may turn some people off as Thomas's grizzled cab driver father with his constant racist rants, but he's certainly real. I enjoyed this for the view of gritty 70's New York, but the film (like most movie versions of obviously complicated plays) has far too many directions in which it's going. Still, good performances and believable characters makes this interesting as a slice of life from a pie they no longer have the recipe for.