The leading Long Island gum surgeon, and one of its leading ladies' men, is stabbed to death in his office after hours. Adapted by Susan Isaacs from her own novel, the movie aims at being satirical and blackly comic, settles for being just bitchy and catty (if that isn't a zoological contradiction). The whodunit aspect sustains interest better and longer than the social comment, with dual investigations carried on competitively, and then co-operatively, by a former Newsday reporter (now a housewife) and a "cutie pie" cop. But the feminist point-making, in the name of social comment, eventually waylays the mystery plot, too. Susan Sarandon, Raul Julia, Edward Herrmann, Judith Ivey, Mary Beth Hurt; directed by Frank Perry. (1985) — Duncan Shepherd
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