Barry Levinson and Valerie Curtin, scriptwriting partners who are also husband and wife, have written a semi-private joke about scriptwriting partners who become husband and wife, and about what happens next. The various topics that are ambled through are hardly very private: Hollywood producers, health-food restaurants, wedding chapels, trains, weather, and — what occupies most of the movie — visits with the in-laws (both sets). Levinson-and-Curtin's California out-look on these matters is somewhat restrictive, but what really narrows the access is a level of cuteness that bespeaks self-infatuation rather than self-analysis. Burt Reynolds and Goldie Hawn, the stand-ins for the actual authors, seem cut out for cuteness, but not for other traits essential to the authorship of screenplays — even merely cute ones. With Jessica Tandy, Barnard Hughes, Audra Lindley, and Keenan Wynn; directed by Norman Jewison. (1982) — Duncan Shepherd
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