Neil Simon re-creates more or less the circumstances of his real-life marriage to Marsha Mason, he a recent widower and she a recent divorcee. The badinage between these two, who, as one of them observes, "talk in the same rhythm," is on a more lifelike level than usual in a Simon script, at which level it does not matter if the wit is not at all times scintillating. Marsha Mason is well cast as the Marsha Mason character, but James Caan, with his toasted almond body, does not much call to mind a New York writer. He delivers his lines with a smugness rather repugnant in someone who seems incapable of such verbal agility and who, instead of smugness, ought to be oozing gratitude toward his scriptwriter. With Joseph Bologna, Valerie Harper; directed by Robert Moore. (1979) — Duncan Shepherd
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